And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…