Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God ? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, "Why didst Thou make me thus?"

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

my little children, for whom I am in travail again, until Christ be formed in you!

that ye put off, as to your former manner of life, the old man, who is corrupt according to the desires of deceit;

For Adam first was formed, then Eve.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance;

For thus, in former times, the holy women also, who hoped in God, were wont to adorn themselves, submitting themselves to their own husbands;