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33:1 What, then, shall we do, brethren? Shall we cease from well-doing, and
abandon charity?
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May the Master never allow that this should happen to us! but
let us rather with diligence and zeal hasten to fulfil every good work.
33:2 For the Maker and Lord of all things rejoiceth in his works.
33:3 By his supreme power he founded the heavens, and by his incomprehensible
understanding he ordered them. The earth he separated from the water that
surrounded it, and fixed it on the firm foundation of his own will.
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The animals
which inhabit therein he commanded to be by his ordinance. Having made
beforehand the sea and the animals that are therein, he shut them in by his own
power.
33:4 Man, the most excellent of all animals, infinite in faculty, he moulded
with his holy and faultless hands, in the impress of his likeness.
33:5 For thus saith God: Let us make man in our own image, and after our own
likeness.
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And God made man. Male and female made he them.
33:6 When, therefore, he had finished all things, he praised and blessed
them, and said, Be fruitful, and multiply.
33:7 Let us see, therefore, how all the just have been adorned with good
works.
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Yea, the Lord himself rejoiced when he had adorned himself with his
works.
33:8 Having, therefore, this example, let us come in without shrinking to his
will; let us work with all our strength the work of righteousness.