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without beginning, from whom is all beginning, Almighty, as we 

 say, and His Son, Jesus Christ, whom we declare to have always 

 existed with the Father before the beginning of the world, with the 

 Father after the manner of a spiritual existence, begotten ineffably, 

 before all beginning. And hj Him were made thiiigs visible and 

 invisible. He was made man, and having overcome death He was 

 received up into heaven to the Father. And ITe gave to Him all power 

 above every name of things in heaven and th ings in earth , and th ings under 

 tlie earth ; and let every tongue confess to Him that Jesus Christ is Lord 

 and God in whom we believe. And we look for His coming, soon to 

 be the Judge of the quick and the dead, who will render to every man 

 according to his deeds. And He shed on us abundantly the Holy Ghost, 

 the gift and earnest of immortality, who makes those who believe and 

 obey to become children of God and joint heirs with Christy whom we 

 confess and adore as one God in the Trinity of the Holy !N"ame. 



5. For He hath Himself said through the prophet : Call upo7i me 

 in the day of trouble, 1 will deliver thee, and thou sJialt glorify me. And 

 again He saith : It is honourable to reveal and confess the works of God. 



6. IS'evertheless, although I am faulty in many things, I wish my 

 brethren and hijisfolk to know what manner of man I am, that they 

 may be able to understand the desire of my soul. 



7. I do not forget the testimony of my Lord, who witnesseth in the 

 Psalm, Thou shalt destroy them that speah a lie. And again He saith : 

 The mouth that belieth Icilleth the soul. And the same Lord saith in the 

 Gospel : The idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof 

 in the day of judgment. 



8. Therefore I ought exceedingly, with fear and trembling , to dread 

 this sentence in that day when no one will be able to absent himself 

 or hide, but when all of us, without exception, shall have to give 

 account of even the smallest sins bej^ore the judgment seat of Christ the 

 Lord. 



9. On this account I had long since thought of writing, but I 

 hesitated until now ; for I feared lest I should fall under the censure 

 of men's tongues, because I have not studied as have others, who in the 

 most approved fashion have di'unk in both law and Holy Scripture 

 alike, and have never changed their language from the time that they 

 were born, but on the contrary have been always rendering it more 

 perfect. 



