hope of eternal life. This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they who have believed in God, be careful to excel in good works; these things are good and profitable to men. But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. A heretic, after a first and second admonition, reject, Knowing that such an one is perverted and sinneth, being self-condemned. When I shall