Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
I felt very puzzled every time I read the Book of Ecclesiastes; it says: “I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do...
Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not.
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.
Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
