THE former treatise, Theophilus, I composed, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,

Now there were more than forty who had on oath formed this conspiracy.

Now to him that is able to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, agreeable to the revelation of the mystery; which was concealed from all former ages,

For ye have heard of my former manner of life, when I professed Judaism, that in the most outrageous manner I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

My little children of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,

according to the purpose from everlasting, which he formed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions;

For Adam was first formed, Eve afterwards.

incurring censure, for having violated their former engagement.

By faith we understand that the worlds were exactly formed by the word of God, so that the visible objects were not made out of things which now appear.

Now this word yet once more manifests the removal of the things shaken, as of things formed, that the things not shaken may endure.

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, in patient expectation for it, till it receives the former and the latter rain.

as obedient children, not conformed to the former passions of the days of your ignorance:

But he that hath no possession of these things, is blind, dim-sighted, sinking into oblivion of his purification from the sins of his former days.

And God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more; nor shall mourning, nor crying, nor toil be any more: because the former things are passed away.