15 That they should, for a long time, preach the worship of God, and the nativity of Christ.
16 But he who was the prince of evil, when he wished to make himself God, laid his hand upon them,
17 And bound all men in sin,[5]
18 Because the judgment of the world was approaching.
19 But Almighty God, when he willed to justify, was unwilling to abandon his creature;
20 But when he saw his affliction, he had compassion upon him:
21 And at the end of a time he sent the Holy Ghost into the Virgin foretold by the Prophets.
22 Who, believing readily [6], was made worthy to conceive, and bring forth our Lord Jesus Christ.
23 That from this perishable body, in which the evil spirit was glorified, he should be cast out, and it should be made manifest
24 That he was not God: For Jesus Christ, in his flesh, had recalled and saved this perishable flesh, and drawn it into eternal life by faith.