For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,15 Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named,16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man,17 That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity,18 You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth:19 To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God.20 Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us;21 To him be glory in the church, and in Christ Jesus unto all generations, world without end. Amen.
The thirty Aeons are indicated (as we have already remarked) by the thirty years during which they say the Saviour performed no public act, and by the parable of the labourers in the vineyard. Paul also, they affirm, very clearly and frequently names these Aeons, and even goes so far as to preserve their order, when he says, "To all the generations of the Aeons of the Aeon." Nay, we ourselves, when at the giving of thanks we pronounce the words, "To Aeons of Aeons" (for ever and ever), do set forth these Aeons. And, in fine, wherever the words Aeon or Aeons occur, they at once refer them to these beings.
A psalm for David. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: praise becometh the upright.2 Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.4 For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done with faithfulness.5 He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.11 But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of his heart to all generations.12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.18 Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy.19 To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.
The rule of truth which we hold, is, that there is one God Almighty, who made all things by His Word, and fashioned and formed, out of that which had no existence, all things which exist. Thus saith the Scripture, to that effect "By the Word of the Lord were the heavens established, and all the might of them, by the spirit of His mouth." And again, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made." There is no exception or deduction stated; but the Father made all things by Him, whether visible or invisible, objects of sense or of intelligence, temporal, on account of a certain character given them, or eternal; and these eternal things He did not make by angels, or by any powers separated from His Ennoea. For God needs none of all these things, but is He who, by His Word and Spirit, makes, and disposes, and governs all things, and commands all things into existence,-He who formed the world (for the world is of all),-He who fashioned man,-He [who] is the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, above whom there is no other God, nor initial principle, nor power, nor pleroma,-He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, as we shall prove.
I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled?50 And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be accomplished?†51 Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.52 For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three.53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother, the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And we must here believe that Christ came down from heaven. For if He had come from earth to earth, He would not say, I came to send fire upon the earth.
About CSB. A personal translation of the New Testament, rendered directly from the public-domain Greek in a literary style — not a scholarly critical edition, and not for liturgical or doctrinal authority. It is one reader's work, offered for enjoyment; where it matters, weigh it against an established translation. (Placeholder text — final wording to come.)