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Chapter 5: Death Awaits Everyone Like This.
SEEING THEN THAT ALL THINGS HAVE AN END: and life is set before us upon our observance of God’s precepts, but death as the result of disobedience, and everyone, according to the choice they make, shall go to their own place, let us flee from death and choose life. For I note that among men there are two different characters—one true coin, the other false. The truly devout person is the right kind of coin, stamped by God Himself. The ungodly person, on the other hand, is false coin, unlawful, counterfeit, wrought not by God, but by the devil. I do not mean to say that there are two different human natures, but that there is one humanity, sometimes belonging to God, and sometimes to the devil. If anyone is truly religious, they are a person of God; but if they are irreligious, they are a person of the devil, made such, not by nature, but by their own choice. The unbelieving bear the image of the prince of wickedness. The believing possess the image of their Prince, God the Father, and Jesus Christ, through whom, if we are not ready to die for the truth in His passion, His life is not in us.