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For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

sed ultra non proficient : insipientia enim eorum manifesta erit omnibus, sicut et illorum fuit.

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

semper discentes, et numquam ad scientiam veritatis pervenientes.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

habentes speciem quidem pietatis, virtutem autem ejus abnegantes. Et hos devita :

Who through him are faithful in God who raised him up from the dead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

proditores, protervi, tumidi, et voluptatum amatores magis quam Dei :

Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you:

erunt homines seipsos amantes, cupidi, elati, superbi, blasphemi, parentibus non obedientes, ingrati, scelesti,

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled

For, uttering great swelling `words' of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.

Ad Timotheum II 3

Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.