For we not pursuing unwise tales, have made known to you the virtue and the before-knowing [or the prescience] of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were made beholders of his greatness.
and who shall be able to think the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? For he shall be as fire welling together, and as the herb of fullers, either tuckers;
And when he sat on the mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privily, and said, Say to us, when these things shall be, and what token of thy coming, and of the ending of the world.
And the word, [that is, God’s son], was made man [or flesh], and dwelled among us, and we have seen the glory of him, as the glory of the one begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and of truth.
and he was before-ordained, [or predestined by grace], the Son of God in virtue, by the Spirit of hallowing of the again-rising of dead men, of Jesus Christ our Lord,
For we be not as [full] many, that do adultery by the word of God [or adulterating the word of God], but we speak of cleanness as of God, before God in Christ.
but do we away the privy things of shame, not walking in subtle guile, neither doing adultery by the word of God [or neither adulterating the word of God], but in showing of the truth commending us-selves to each conscience of men before God.
that we be not now little children, moving as waves, and be not borne about with each wind of teaching, in the waywardness of men, in subtle wit, to the deceiving of error.
which shall reform the body of our meekness, that is made like [or configured] to the body of his clearness, by the working by which he may also make all things subject to him.
neither give attention to fables and genealogies that be uncertain [or without end], which give questions, more than edification of God, that is in the faith.
and they shall make merchandise of you in covetousness by feigned words. To whom doom now a while ago ceaseth not, and the perdition of them nappeth not.
Lo! he cometh with clouds, and each eye shall see him, and they that pricked him; and all the kindreds of the earth shall bewail themselves on him. Yea, Amen!