Selected Discourses and Commentary on the Psalms

...that it became as a promise of His commandments, and he was freed from sin. For it is the will of the living God that everyone should live and come to the knowledge of the truth. And just as it was proclaimed beforehand through prophecy that salvation is coming to the nations and to all those who believed in Him, our Lord Jesus Christ, and thus He was born in the flesh from the holy virgin Mary, and was revealed in the world, and appeared to humanity, and was proclaimed in all the earth, because to Him glory is befitting for ever and ever, amen. Because to Him glory and honor are befitting for ever and ever, amen. But again, when God saw that man was corrupted through sin and was alienated from his Lord, and was filled with all corruption, and the earth was corrupted through his evil works, and was filled with sin, and was revealed...

...wickedness in all humanity, and they were freed from God, and they worshipped idols and images and all carved things, and they were filled with all uncleanness, and were corrupted in all their evil works, and were filled with all sin, and were freed from God, and worshipped the sun and the moon and all the stars, and all the animals of the earth, and all the creeping things of the earth, and all the birds of the sky, and they were filled with all uncleanness, and were corrupted in all their evil works, and were filled with all sin, and were freed from God, and worshipped the sun and the moon, and all the stars, and all the animals of the earth, and all the creeping things of the earth, and all the birds...