The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

But I think it my duty, as long as I live in this 'tent,' to rouse you by awakening memories of the past;

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture comes to pass of a personal interpretation.

In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.

So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.