Ye despisers, see ye, and wonder ye, and be ye scattered abroad; for I work a work in your days, a work that ye shall not believe, if any man shall tell it [out] to you.
For this thing, as the tongue of fire devoureth stubble, and the heat of flame burneth, so the root of them shall be as a dead spark, and the seed of them shall ascend [or go up] as dust; for they casted away the law of the Lord of hosts, and blasphemed the speech of the Holy of Israel.
Forsooth if when thou tellest to the wicked man, that he be converted from his ways, and he is not con-verted from his ways, he shall die in his wickedness; certainly thou hast delivered thy soul.
Behold ye in heathen men, and see ye, and wonder ye, and greatly dread ye; for a work is done in your days, which no man shall believe, when it shall be told.
And the people stood abiding; and the princes scorned him with them, and said, Other men he made safe; make he himself safe, if this be Christ, the chosen of God.
forbidding us to speak to heathen men, that they be made safe, that they [full]-fill their sins evermore; for the wrath of God came on them into the end.