Epistles

By this all magic was dissolved and every bond of wickedness vanished away, ignorance was removed, and the old kingdom was destroyed, for God was manifest as man for the newness of eternal life, and that which had been prepared by God received its beginning. Hence all things were disturbed, because the abolition of death was being planned.

If Jesus Christ permit me through your prayers.[*](Promise of future doctrinal exposition) and it be his will, in the second book,[*](This second book was either never written, or at all events is not extant in the genuine recension: but a later editor has supplied a second epistle to the Ephesians which is undoubtedly not genuine.) which I propose to write to you, I will show you concerning the dispensation of the new man Jesus Christ, which I have begun to discuss, dealing with his faith and his love, his suffering and his resurrection;