and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors fell asleep, everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation.”
For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been since the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be.
For since the creation of the world ʜɪꜱ invisible attributes—ʜɪꜱ everlasting power and divinity—have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
When their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Y’all be gracious to them, because we didn’t take a woman for each man in battle. Y’all didn’t give them to them, otherwise y’all would now be guilty.’”
