Let us then utterly flee from all the works of iniquity, lest these should take hold of us; and let us hate the error of the present time, that we may set our love on the world to come: let us not give loose reins to our soul, that it should have power to run with sinners and the wicked, lest we become like them.
Let us then completely shun all the wicked deeds, so that these will not dominate us; and let us despise the evil of this era, in order to focus our love on the eternal world: let us not allow our spirit to run freely, lest it join with sinners and the unrighteous, and we become like them.