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| Chapter II.—Do not save me from martyrdom.
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Chapter II.—Do not save me from
martyrdom.
For it is not my desire to act
towards you as a man-pleaser,831
| 831 Some translate as in longer recension, but there is in
the one case ὑμῖν, and in the other
ὑμᾶς. |
but as pleasing God, even as also ye please Him. For neither shall I ever
have such [another] opportunity of attaining to God; nor will ye, if ye
shall now be silent, ever be entitled to832
| 832 Literally, “have to be inscribed to.”
| the honour of a better work. For if ye are silent concerning me,
I shall become God’s; but if you show your love to my flesh, I
shall again have to run my race. Pray, then, do not seek to confer any
greater favour upon me than that I be sacrificed to God while the altar
is still prepared; that, being gathered together in love, ye may sing
praise to the Father, through Christ Jesus, that God has deemed me, the
bishop of Syria, worthy to be sent for833
| 833 Literally, “to be found and sent for.”
| from the east unto the west. It is good to set from the world
unto God, that I may rise again to Him.
For it is not my desire that ye
should please men, but God, even as also ye do please Him. For neither
shall I ever hereafter have such an opportunity of attaining to God; nor
will ye, if ye shall now be silent, ever be entitled to834
| 834 Literally, “have to be inscribed
to.” | the honour of a better work. For if ye are silent
concerning me, I shall become God’s; but if ye show your love to my
flesh, I shall again have to run my race. Pray, then, do not seek to
confer any greater favour upon me than that I be sacrificed to God, while
the altar is still prepared; that, being gathered together in love, ye
may sing praise to the Father, through Christ Jesus, that God has deemed
me, the bishop of Syria, worthy to be sent for835
| 835 Literally, “to be found and sent
for.” | from the east unto the west, and to become a
martyr836
| 836 The text is here
in great confusion. | in behalf of His own precious837
| 837 Literally,
“beautiful.” Some read, “it is good,” etc.
| sufferings, so as to pass from the world to God, that I may rise
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