1st and 2nd Message to the Philadelphian Society

...much ridiculed, and has even proverbially become a reproach among those who call themselves Christians and profess themselves to be the disciples of JESUS. Yet he was so eminently poor in his spirit, above all the sons of Adam original: "Sons of Adam"; a biblical term referring to all of humanity. Nevertheless, the wisdom of God, which runs counter to that of man and charges his prudence with folly, will...