¹⁷‘And now, brethren, I have known that through ignorance ye did it, as also your rulers; ¹⁸and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfil; ¹⁹reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, ²⁰and He may send Jesus Christ who before hath been preached to you, ²¹whom it behoveth heaven, indeed, to receive till times of a restitution of all things, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age.

²²‘For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said—A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you; ²³and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people; ²⁴and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.

²⁵‘Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth; ²⁶to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.’

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