16Seeing then that we are about to celebrate the purification, we write to you. You will therefore do well if you celebrate the days.
17Now God, who saved all his people, and restored the heritage to all, with the kingdom, the priesthood, and the consecration,
18even as he promised through the law—in God have we hope, that he will soon have mercy upon us, and gather us together out of everywhere under heaven into his holy place; for he delivered us out of great evils, and purified the place.———————