monition, but also to serve as a reminder to ourselves; for we
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securely reaching the goal in the racecourse of the faith,. obtained a noble prize, in spite of the weakness of their sex.
3 Jealousy estranged wives from husbands, and thus perverted the saying of our father Adam: ** This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. 4 Jealousy and strife have laid mighty cities low and uprooted powerful nations.
7. Weare writing this, beloved, not merely for your admonition, but also to serve as a reminder to ourselves; for we are in the same arena and face the same conflict.
2 Let us, then, give up those empty and futile aspirations, and turn to the glorious and venerable rule of our tradition.
3 Let us attend to what is noble, what is pleasing, what is acceptable in the sight of our Maker. 4 Let us fix our gaze upon the Blood of Christ and understand how precious it is to the Father,** because, poured out for our salvation, it brought to the whole world the grace of conversion.
5 Let us pass in review all the generations and learn the lesson, that from generation to generation the Master has given an opportunity for conversion®® to those who were willing to turn to Him. 6 Noe preached the need of conversion,** and such as heeded him were saved. 7 Jonas announced destruction to the Ninevites: °* they did penance for their sins and by their prayers propitiated God and gained salvation, although they were not of God's own people.*"
8. The ministers of the grace of God exhorted through the Holy Spirit to conversion, 2 and the Master of the universe Himself exhorted to conversion with an oath: ** As truly as I live, says the Lord, I do not desire the death of the sinner, but his conversion; and He added a kindly declaration:
3 House of Israel, be converted from your iniquity. Say to the children of my People: should your sins reach from earth to heaven, and should they be redder than scarlet and blacker