For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,

And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”