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He that doeth good is of God; he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

To Demetrius testimony hath been borne by all, and by the truth itself; yea, we also bear witness, and ye know that our witness is true.

I had many things to write to thee, but I do not wish 14 to write to thee with ink and pen; but I hope to see thee immediately, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends by

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THE EPISTLE OF JUDE.

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JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, loved in God the Father and kept by Jesus 2 Christ: Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

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Beloved, while giving all diligence to write to you, I found it necessary to write to you concerning the common salvation, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the 4 faith which was once delivered to the saints. For there have stealthily crept in certain men who were of old appointed beforehand for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into wantonness, and denying the only Sovereign, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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But I wish to remind you as once knowing it all, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of 6 Egypt, afterward destroyed those who believed not; and the angels which kept not their principality, but left their own dwelling-place, he hath kept in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day; 7 even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, in like manner with them giving themselves over to fornication, and going away after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of everlasting fire.

8 Yet in like manner these dreamers defile the flesh, 9 despise dominion, and rail at dignities. Yet Michael the

archangel, when contending with the Devil he disputed

about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a 10 railing accusation, but said: The Lord rebuke thee. But these rail at the things which they know not; but what things they understand naturally, as brute beasts, in these 11 they corrupt themselves. Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed on in the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

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These are the rocks in your feasts of love, feasting together without fear, feeding only themselves; clouds without water, carried away by winds; trees in late autumn, 13 without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for

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Yea, and against these Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord cometh in the midst 15 of his holy myriads, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly among them of all the deeds of their ungodliness which they committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners spoke against him.”* 16 These are murmurers, complaining of their lot, walking according to their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words; admiring men's persons, for the sake of profit.

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But do ye, beloved, remember the words which were before spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 that they told you that at the last time there would be scoffers, walking according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are they that separate themselves, sensual, not having the Spirit.

Ver. 12. wrecked.

-rocks; i.e. against which you are in danger of being shipin late autumn; i.e. stripped of leaves and fruit.

*This citation was made from the book of Enoch, a forged writing composed, probably, between one and two centuries before Christ.

20 But do ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most 21 holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in

the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus 22 Christ unto eternal life. And some rebuke when they con23 tend; and others save, snatching them out of the fire; and on others have compassion with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

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But to him that is able to keep them from falling, and to present them faultless before the presence of his glory 25 with exceeding joy, to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, is glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and now, and for ever. Amen.

Ver. 24. them. The oldest and best manuscripts, including the Vatican and the Sinaitic, with the most important versions, read you, which Tischendorf will probably adopt in his eighth edition. In his seventh edition he erroneously supposed the reading them to be supported by the Vatican manuscript. - A.

THE REVELATION OF JOHN.

I. THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants what must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant 2 John; who bore witness of the word of God, and of the 3 testimony of Jesus Christ, of whatever he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things written therein; for the time is at hand.

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John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be to you, and peace, from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven spirits which are 5 before his throne; and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him that loveth us, and washed us 6 from our sins in his own blood, and made us a kingdom, priests to God his Father, to him be the glory and the dominion for ever. Amen.

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Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they who pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, he who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. I John, your brother, and companion in the affliction and kingdom and endurance in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, on account of the word of God, and the

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