16  Come ye near unto me; I have not spoken in secret; from the beginning, from the time that it was declared have I spoken; and the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

  23  Now this ^aMoses plainly taught to the children of Israel in the wilderness, and sought diligently to sanctify his people that they might behold the face of God;

  31  Behold, here is the agency of man, and here is the condemnation of man; because that which was from the beginning is ^bplainly manifest unto them, and they receive not the light.