Chapter 53 of 146

through us,*** let them understand that they will entangle

through us,*** let them understand that they will entangle

EpIsTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS

AS wicked will, but they will not find me.

For they hated wisdom and did not choose the fear of the Lord, and they refused to attend to my counsels and sneered at my reproofs.

6 Therefore they shall eat the fruits of their own way, and be glutted with their own impiousness. 7 Because they wronged the little ones, they shall be slaughtered; and a searching inquiry shall destroy the impious. But he who listens to me will find shelter in hope and confidence and will rest secure from every ill.

58. Let us, then, be subject to His most holy and glorious name, and escape the threats which Wisdom has uttered in advance against the disobedient. 'Thus we shall find shelter, firmly reposing on the most holy name of His majesty.

2 Accept our counsel, and you shall have nothing to regret.

For, as truly as God lives, as truly as the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit live, and the faith and the hope of the elect, so truly will he who in a humble frame of mind, with eagerness to yield, and unregretfully carries out the commandments and precepts given by God, be enrolled and be in good standing among the number of those who are on the way to salvation through Jesus Christ, through whom is to , Him the glory forever and evermore. Amen.

59. But should any disobey what has been said by Him through us,*** let them understand that they will entangle themselves in transgression and no small danger. 2 But for our part we shall be innocent of this sin, and will offer earnest prayer and supplication that the Creator of the universe may preserve undiminished the established number ** of His elect in all the world through His beloved Son Jesus Christ, through whom He has called us out of darkness into light, out of ignorance into the full knowledge of the splendor of

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