To the Reader.

...ed. If now, I say, this single verse is rightly taken into account and taken to heart, it is immediately clear as day that they have seen nor known neither God nor His Anointed One original: Gesalbten; a translation of the Hebrew 'Messiah' or Greek 'Christos'. For right now the very time is at hand of which Christ prophesied that love would grow cold, and therefore no faith would be found at His coming. For 1 John 2: He who says "I know Him," and yet does not keep His commandment, is a liar, and there is no truth in him, and (1 John 1) if we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth: therefore the aforementioned Apostle in his 1st Epistle, Chapter 3, concludes: whoever sins has not seen nor known Him, for which reason also our faith is dead, our boasting false, and our hope in vain. For how shall we still be found in sins, we who seek to be made righteous through Christ? Is Christ then a servant of sinoriginal: Sündendiener; a reference to Galatians 2:17. The author is arguing against "cheap grace," or the idea that one can be a Christian while continuing to live a sinful life.? According to Galatians 2, has He not come to destroy the works of the devil, so that from now on we should live for righteousness, godliness, and piety? Therefore the Lord God wills, in both the New and Old Testaments, that we should be merciful, righteous, and holy, because He is merciful, righteous, and holy. Therefore, it is only