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DC 3:1d - DC 3:2c


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1d Do not run faster, or labor more than you have strength and means provided to enable you to translate;

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1e but be diligent unto the end; pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan, that do uphold his work.

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1f Behold, they have sought to destroy you; yea, even the man in whom you have trusted, has sought to destroy you.

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1g And for this cause I said, that he is a wicked man, for he has sought to take away the things wherewith you have been intrusted;

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1h and he has also sought to destroy your gift, and because you have delivered the writings into his hands, behold, wicked men have taken them from you; therefore, you have delivered them up; yea, that which was sacred unto wickedness.

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1i And, behold, Satan has put it into their hearts to alter the words which you have caused to be written, or which you have translated, which have gone out of your hands;

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1j and, behold, I say unto you, that because they have altered the words, they read contrary from that which you translated and caused to be written;

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1k and on this wise the Devil has sought to lay a cunning plan, that he may destroy this work; for he has put it into their hearts to do this, that by lying they may say they have caught you in the words which you have pretended to translate.

2a Verily I say unto you, that I will not suffer that Satan shall accomplish his evil design in this thing, for, behold, he has put it into their hearts to get thee to tempt the Lord thy God, in asking to translate it over again;

2b and then, behold, they say and think in their hearts, We will see if God has given him power to translate, if so, he will also give him power again; and if God giveth him power again, or if he translate again, or in other words, if he bringeth forth the same words, behold, we have the same with us, and we have altered them;

2c therefore, they will not agree, and we will say that he has lied in his words, and that he has no gift, and that he has no power;

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