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Lord took from the ends of the earth. As He had in times past 

 promised through His prophets : The Gentiles shall come unto thee from 

 the ends of the earth, and shall say : As our fathers have got for them- 

 selves false idols, and there is no profit in them. And again, I have set 

 thee to he a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto 

 the ends of the earth. 



39. And there I wish to wait for His promise who verily never 

 disappoints. As He promises in the Gospel : They shall come from the 

 east and west, and from the south and from the north, and shall sit down 

 with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob ; as we believe that believers will 

 come from all parts of the world. 



40. Por that reason, therefore, we ought to fish well and dili- 

 gently, as the Lord forewarns and teaches, saying : Come ye after me, 

 and I ivill make you to become fishers of meii. And again, He saith 

 through the prophets : Behold, I send fishers and many hunters, saith 

 God, and so forth. 



Wherefore, then, it was exceedingly necessary that we should 

 spread our nets, so that a great multitude and a throng should be taken 

 for God, and that everywhere there should be clergy to baptize and 

 exhort a people, poor and needy, as the Lord in the Gospel warns and 

 teaches, saying : Go ye therefore now, and teach all nations, baptizing 

 them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost : 

 teaching them to observe all thi?igs whatsoever I have commanded you : 

 and, lo, I am loith you alway, even unto the eiid of the world. And again 

 He saith : Go ye therefore into all the world, and preach the Gospel to 

 every creature. He that believeth a7id is baptized shall be saved ; but he 

 that believeth not shall be damned. And again : This Gospel of the 

 kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations ; 

 and then shall the end come. 



And in like manner the Lord, foreshowing by the prophet, saith : 

 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God. I will pour out of 

 my Spirit upon all fiesh : and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, 

 and your young men shall see visions, afid your old men shall dream 

 dreams : and on my servants and on my handmaidens I iv ill pour out in 

 those days of my Spirit ; and they shall prophesy. And He saith in 

 Osee, I tv ill call them my people, which lo ere not my people ; and her that 

 had obtained mercy, which had not obtained mercy. And it shall come to 

 pass that in the place where it was said, Te are not my people ; there shall 

 they be called the children of the living God, 



