The Epistle.

effectiveness original: "efficacy" of that water which was once poured on their faces. If these people run into every kind of wild excess original: "excesse of riot"; a phrase referring to unrestrained debauchery or social disorder, what else can be expected from them?

But for us, who have learned to know the great Mystery of Godliness original: "Mysterie of Godlinesse"; a reference to 1 Timothy 3:16, meaning the essential truths of the Christian faith and have committed ourselves to a strict covenant of obedience—if we should allow ourselves to be led astray into any enormous wickedness, we shall cause heaven to blush and hell to triumph. Oh, therefore, let us be all the more watchful over our ways, since our commitments to the name of our God are greater, and the danger of our failures original: "miscarriages" is more deadly.

Lastly, let me beg and solemnly urge you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to be careful