³¹ and he said, `Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?' he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.

¹⁴ How then shall they call upon `him' in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe `on him' of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

¹ Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

² as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

²¹ wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

¹⁰ and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;

³⁶ From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?

³⁷ if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;

² and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

¹⁵ verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child -- he may not enter into it;'

³ and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

⁴ whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the reign of the heavens.

⁸ And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself `is' by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.

¹⁸ And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.

¹⁹ And the humble have added joy in Jehovah, And the poor among men In the Holy One of Israel rejoice.

² For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.

³ Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.

²² And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

¹⁶ And I think to know this, Perverseness it `is' in mine eyes,

¹⁷ Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

⁸ Good and upright `is' Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way.

⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.

¹⁵ And he goeth thence, and findeth Jehonadab son of Rechab -- to meet him, and blesseth him, and saith unto him, `Is thy heart right, as my heart `is' with thy heart?' and Jehonadab saith, `It is;' -- `Then it is; give thy hand;' and he giveth his hand, and he causeth him to come up into him into the chariot,

¹⁶ and saith, `Come with me, and look on my zeal for Jehovah;' and they cause him to ride in his chariot.

²⁶ And he saith unto him, `My heart went not when the man turned from off his chariot to meet thee; is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olives, and vines, and flock, and herd, and men-servants, and maid-servants?

⁹ And Naaman cometh, with his horses and with his chariot, and standeth at the opening of the house for Elisha;