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 about that which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath come into the heart of sinful men what God has prepared for those that love him. Of these things we speak, and concerning these things we preach the gospel. Do thou also, therefore, believe in him, that thou may est live, and put thy trust in him, and thou shalt not die. For he is not to be persuaded by gifts, that thou shouldest offer them to him; nor does he need sacrifices, that thou sacrifice to him. But look to him, and he will not overlook thee; turn thou to him, and he will not forsake thee. For his comeliness and beauty will make thee love him, but it permits thee not to turn away from him."

37. And after the apostle had said this, much people were added to the young man. And looking about, the apostle noticed how they lifted themselves up to see him, and they went up into elevated places. And the apostle said to them, "Ye men who have come to the assembly of the Messiah, and who wish to believe in Jesus, learn from this, and see that if you do not get high up you cannot see me, who am small, and cannot look at me, who am like yourselves. Now if you cannot see me, who am like yourselves, unless you raise yourselves a little from the earth, how can you see him who lives above and is [now] found below, unless you first raise yourselves out of your former behavior, and unprofitable deeds and desires which