Richard Francis Weymouth

“ For a man is the slave of any one by whom he has been worsted in fight.
002:020 For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first.
002:021 For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandments in which they were instructed. ”

“ In both my letters I seek to revive
in your honest minds the memory of certain things,
003:002 so that you may recall the words spoken long ago by the holy Prophets,
and the commandments of our Lord and Saviour given you
through your Apostles.
003:003 But, above all, remember that, in the last days, men will
come who make a mock at everything—men governed only by
their own passions ”

“ But He bears patiently
with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that
all should come to repentance.
003:010 The day of the Lord will come like a thief—it will be a day
on which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise,
the elements be destroyed in the fierce heat, and the earth
and all the works of man be utterly burnt up.
003:011 Since all these things are thus pre-destined to dissolution,
what sort of men ought you to be found to be in all holy
living and godly conduct ”