of this kind among you ; but I put there are any such persons among you ; nay, indeed I you on your guard, inasmuch as I hope that God will never permit any such report to reach love you greatly, and foresee the my ears, He " who spared not His Son for the sake of snares of the devil. Wherefore, cloth- His holy Church." ** But foreseeing the snares of the ing" yourselves with meekness, be ye wicked one, I arm you beforehand by my admonitions, renewed '^ in faith, that is the flesh of as my beloved and faithful children in Christ, furnishing the Lord, and in love, that is the you with the means of protection ^ against the deadly blood of Jesus Christ. Let no one disease of unruly men, by which do ye flee from the of you cherish any grudge against his disease '° [referred to] by the good-will of Christ our neighbour. Give no occasion to the Lord. Do ye therefore, clothing " yourselves with meek- Gentiles, lest by means of a few fool- ness, become the imitators of His sufferings, and of His ish men the whole multitude [of those love, wherewith '^ He loved us when He gave Himself a that believe] in God be evil spoken ransom ^* for us, that He might cleanse us by His blood of. For, " Woe to him by whose from our old ungodliness, and bestow life on us when we vanity my name is blasphemed among were almost on the point of perishing through the de- any." '7 pravity that was in us. Let no one of you, therefore,