127. Then he answered and said, This is the condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;
128. that, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as you have said: but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.
129. For this is the way whereof Moses spoke to the people while he lived, saying, Choose you life, that you may live.
130. Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no, nor me which have spoken to them;
131. so that there shall not be such heaviness in their destruction, as there shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation.
132. I answered then and said, I know, Lord, that the Most High is now called merciful, in that he has mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world;
133. and compassionate, in that he has compassion upon those that turn to his law;
134. and longsuffering, for that he long suffers those that have sinned, as his creatures;
135. and bountiful, for that he is ready to give rather than to exact;
136. and of great mercy, for that he multiplies more and more mercies to them that are present, and that are past, and also to them which are to come;