against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those ad- vanced in years. For this reason righteousness and peace are now far departed from you, inas- much as every one abandons the fear of God, and is become bhnd in His fliith,' neither walks in the ordinances of His appoiiitment, nor acts a part becoming a Christian,- but walks after his own wicked lusts, resuming the practice of an unrighteous and ungodly envy, by which death itself entered into the world. ^