4. “We are persuaded that every man ... will render account according to the power he has received from God, as Christ intimated when he said, ‘To whom God has given more, of him shall more be required.’” (Ap. c. 17.) Luke xv. 48. 5. “And the angel of God who was sent to the same virgin at that time brought her good news, saying, ‘Behold, thou shalt conceive of the Holy Ghost, and shall bear a son, and he shall be called the Son of the Highest. And thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins,’ _as they who have recorded[2] all that concerns our Saviour Jesus Christ have taught_, whom we believe since by Isaiah also, whom we have now adduced, the Spirit of prophecy declared that he should be born as we intimated before.” (Ap. c. 33.) Luke i. 32, and Matthew i. 21. 6. “As our Lord himself says, ‘He that heareth me, heareth him that sent me.’” (Ap. c. 63.) Luke x. 16. 7. “And again in other words he said, ‘I give unto you power to tread on serpents, and on scorpions and on scolopendras, and on all the might of the enemy.’” (Dial. c. 76.) Luke x. 19. 8. “For he exclaimed before his crucifixion: ‘The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the scribes and pharisees and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.’” (Dial. c. 76.) Luke ix. 22. 9. “Just as our Lord also said: ‘They shall neither marry nor be given in marriage, but shall be equal to the angels, the children of the God of the resurrection.’” (Dial. c. 81.) Luke xx. 35, 36. 10. “For he taught us to pray for our enemies also, saying, ‘Love your enemies; be kind and merciful as your heavenly Father’ is, for we see that the Almighty God is kind and merciful, causing his sun to rise on the unthankful and on the righteous, and sending rain on the holy and on the wicked.” (Dial. c. 96.) Luke vi. 35, and Matthew v. 45. 11. “But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy, when the angel Gabriel announced the good tidings to her that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Highest would overshadow her; wherefore also the Holy Thing begotten of her is the Son of God; and she replied, ‘Be it unto me according to thy word.’” (Dial. c. 100.) Luke i. 35, 38. 12. “For when Christ was giving up his spirit on the cross he said: ‘Father, unto thy hands I commend my spirit,’ _as I have learned also from the Memoirs_.” (Dial. c. 105.) Luke xxiii. 46. 13. “He says, ‘The children of this world marry and are given in marriage; but the children of the world to come neither marry nor are given in marriage, but shall be like the angels in heaven.’” (Res., c. 3.) Luke xx. 34, 35.