And if the plague returns and breaks out in the house after he has taken away the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it has been plastered,
In your defilement is wickedness. Because I have cleansed you, yet you are not cleansed; you shall not be cleansed from your defilement any more until I have caused My fury to cease on you.
And if the priest shall come in and carefully look, and, behold, the plague has not spread in the house after the house has been plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean; for the plague has been healed.
For if by a recognition of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, having escaped the defilements of the world, and again being entangled they are overcome by these, then the last things of them have become worse than the first.
But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: “The dog turning back to his own vomit;” also, the sow being washed returns to a wallowing in mud. Prov. 26:11
These are sunken rocks in your love feasts, feasting together with you, feeding themselves without fear, waterless clouds being carried about by winds, fruitless autumn trees, having died twice, having been plucked up by the roots;