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51:1 Whatever errors, therefore, we have committed through the assaults of
the adversary, let us for these ask pardon; and they who have been leaders of
the sedition and division ought to consider the common ground of our hope.
51:2 For they who have their conversation in fear and love wish that they
themselves, rather than their neighbours, should fall into suffering; and would
rather that themselves should undergo condemnation, than that the harmony which
hath been honourably and justly handed down to us should do so.
51:3 For it is better that a man should make confession concerning his sins,
than that he should harden his heart, even as the heart of them was hardened who
made sedition against Moses the servant of God; whose condemnation was manifest,
51:4 for they went down alive into hell, and death swallowed them up.
51:5 Pharaoh and his army, and all the leaders of Egypt, their chariots and
their riders, through no other cause were sunk in the Red Sea, and perished
there, than through the hardening of their foolish hearts, after that the signs
and wonders happened in Egypt through the hand of Moses the servant of God.