Chapter 9

¹ So let’s not be insensible to his kindness. If he imitates us in what we do, we are no more; For if you should mark iniquities, O Lord, Lord, who will stand? So let’s become worthy of the name we have received.

² For whoever is called by another name more than this one does not belong to God, nor has he received the prophecy that speaks about us, that he will be called by a new name, which the Lord will name him, and he will be a holy people.

³ This was first fulfilled in Syria, for in Antioch the disciples were called Christians, when Paul and Peter were laying the foundation of the Church. So put away the evil leaven, the old and rotten leaven, and be transformed into new leaven of grace.

⁴ Abide in Christ, so that the stranger may not lord it over you. It’s absurd to speak Jesus Christ on the tongue and yet hold in the mind Judaism, which has ceased. For Christianity did not believe in Judaism, but Judaism in Christianity, into which every nation that believed and every tongue that confessed was gathered to God.

⁵ And those who were stony in heart became children of God’s friend Abraham, and in his seed all those appointed to eternal life in Christ were blessed.