Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.

For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back.

By faith Joseph, when his end was near, said that the children of Israel would go out of Egypt; and gave orders about his bones.

What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:

Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.

But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation;

Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them.

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.

But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour.

They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

I have knowledge of your works, that you are not cold or warm: it would be better if you were cold or warm.

And there was given to every one a white robe, and they were ordered to take their rest for a little time, till the number was complete of the other servants, their brothers, who would be put to death, even as they had been.

And took his oath by him who is living for ever and ever, who made the heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there would be no more waiting:

And if any man would do them damage, fire comes out of their mouth and puts an end to those who are working against them: and if any man has a desire to do them damage, in this way will he be put to death.

And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years,