thin parchment; and by these means stirring you up326 to retain a constant remembrance
of God: at the same time, however, convincing you, that in your hearts you have not even
a faint remembrance of God’s worship. Yet not even so were you dissuaded from idolatry:
for in the times of Elijah, when [God] recounted the number of those who had not bowed
the knee to Baal, He said the number was seven thousand; and in Isaiah He rebukes you for
having sacrificed your children to idols. But we, because we refuse to sacrifice to those to
whom we were of old accustomed to sacrifice, undergo extreme penalties, and rejoice in
death,—believing that God will raise us up by His Christ, and will make us incorruptible,
and undisturbed, and immortal; and we know that the ordinances imposed by reason of the
hardness of your people’s hearts, contribute nothing to the performance of righteousness
and of piety.”
326 Literally, “importuning.”
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