strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, that through many afflictions we mast enter the kingdom of God.

When they had taken it up, they used helps, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest they should fall into the quicksand, they lowered the mast, and thus were driven along.

Has not the potter power over the clay, to make from the same mass one vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

Now, if the first fruit is holy, the mass is holy also: and if the root is holy, the branches are holy also.

Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are without leaven; for Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed for us.

A little leaven leavens the whole mass.