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66 or could distinguish between good and evil, and fortified me and consoled me as a father his son.

3. Wherefore I cannot hold my peace, nor would it be becoming, concerning such great benefits and such great grace as the Lord has vouchsafed to grant me in the land of my captivity; because this is the return we can make Him, that after we have been chastened and have come to the knowledge of God we should exalt and confess His wondrous works before every nation which is under the whole heaven.

4. For there is no other God, nor was there ever any in the past, nor will there be in the future, except God the Father unbegotten without beginning, from whom is every beginning, all-powerful, as we say, and his Son Jesus Christ, whom we declare to have always existed with the Father before the beginning of the world, of the Father begotten ineffably after the manner of a spirit before all beginning; and by Him were made things visible and invisible, He was made man, and having overcome death, was received into heaven by the Father. And He gave Him all power over every name, of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth; and let every tongue confess to Him that Jesus Christ is the Lord and God in whom we believe. And we look forHis speedy coming as the judge of the living and the dead, who will render to everyone according to his deeds. And He poured out abundantly on us the Holy Ghost, the gift and pledge of immortality, who makes those who believe and obey to become sons of God and joint heirs with Christ, whom we confess and adore as one God in the Trinity of the Sacred Name.

5. For He Himself has said through the prophet: Call upon me in the day of tribulation and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me. And, again, He saith: It is honourable to reveal and confess the works of God.