2 For even if we sin, we are your, knowing your dominion; But we shall not sin, knowing that we have been accounted your:
3 For to be acquainted with you is perfect righteousness, And to know your dominion is the root of immortality.
4 For neither were we led astray by any evil device of men’s are, Nor yet by painters’ fruitless labor, A form stained with varied colors;
5 The sight whereof leads fools into lust: Their desire is for the breathless form of a dead image.
6 Lovers of evil things, and worthy of such hopes as these, Are both they that do, and they that desire, and they that worship.
7 For a potter, kneading soft earth, Laboriously mouldeth each several vessel for our service: Nay, out of the same clay does he fashion Both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort, All in like manner; But what shall be the use of each vessel of either sort, The craftsman himself is the judge.
8 And also, laboring to an evil end, he mouldeth a vain god out of the same clay, He who, having but a little before been made of earth, After a short space goes his way to the earth out of which he was taken, When he is required to render back the soul which was lent him.