For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.