thou didest these things, and I was still. Thou guessedest wickedly, that I shall be like thee; I shall reprove thee, and I shall set against thy face.
For I passed, and saw your maumets [or simulacra], and found an altar, in which was written, To the unknown God. Therefore which thing ye unknowing worship, this thing I show to you.
Whether thou despisest the riches of his goodness, and the patience, and the long abiding? Knowest thou not, that the benignity, [or good will], of God leadeth thee to repenting [or to penance]?
Whom God ordained forgiver [or purposed an helper], by faith in his blood, to the showing of his right-wiseness, for [the] remission of before-going sins, in the bearing up of God,
For the time that is passed is enough to the will of heathen men to be ended, which walked in lecheries, and lusts, in much drinking of wine, in unmeasurable [or oft] eatings, and drinkings, and unleaveful worshipping of maumets [or of idols].