Etheridge(i)
16 For men swear by one greater than themselves: and every controversy which occurs among them hath a sure conclusion in the oath.
17 On this account Aloha, willing abundantly to manifest to the heirs of the promise that his engagement is changeless, hath bound it in an oath:
18 that by two things that are not changed, in which it cannot be that Aloha should lie, great consolation should be ours who have fled unto him: and that we may retain the hope that is promised to us,