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Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; may the Lord repay to him according to his works,

and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save [me] -- to his heavenly kingdom; to whom [is] the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen.

(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

(not by works that [are] in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

and unto the messengers, indeed, He saith, `Who is making His messengers spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire;'

God also bearing joint-witness both with signs and wonders, and manifold powers, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will.

all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,' for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him,

being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,

and Moses indeed [was] stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,

and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear --

in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh [day] thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things [are] naked and open to His eyes -- with whom is our reckoning.