And further, from these, my son, be warned; the making of many books hath no end, and much study `is' a weariness of the flesh.
And he speaketh three thousand similes, and his songs `are' five, and the chief one;
for, in abundance of wisdom `is' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'
and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'
And there are also many other things -- as many as Jesus did -- which, if they may be written one by one, not even the world itself I think to have place for the books written. Amen.
`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;