Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us.
You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you also.
Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.
Now as Jannes and Mambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.
There is no remembrance of former things: nor indeed of those things which hereafter are to come, shall there be any remembrance with them that shall be in the latter end.
I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?)
He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.