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Chapter V.—Pray for me.
My brethren, I am greatly enlarged in loving you; and
rejoicing exceedingly [over you], I seek to secure your safety. Yet it is
not I, but Jesus Christ, for whose sake being bound I fear the more,
inasmuch as I am not yet perfect. But your prayer to God shall make me
perfect, that I may attain to that portion which through mercy has been
allotted me, while I flee to the Gospel as to the flesh of Jesus, and to
the apostles as to the presbytery of the Church. And let us also love the prophets, because they too
have proclaimed the Gospel,917
| 917 Literally, “have proclaimed in reference to the
Gospel.” | and placed their hope in Him,918
and waited for
Him; in whom also believing, they were saved, through union to Jesus
Christ, being holy men, worthy of love and admiration, having had witness
borne to them by Jesus Christ, and being reckoned along with [us] in the
Gospel of the common hope.
My brethren, I am
greatly enlarged in loving you; and rejoicing exceedingly [over you], I
seek to secure your safety. Yet it is not I, but the Lord Jesus through
me; for whose sake being bound, I fear the more, for I am not yet
perfect. But your prayer to God shall make me perfect, that I may attain
that to which I have been called, while I flee to the Gospel as to the
flesh of Jesus Christ, and to the apostles as the presbytery of the
Church. I do
also love the prophets as those who announced Christ, and as being
partakers of the same Spirit with the apostles. For as the false prophets and the false apostles
drew [to themselves] one and the same wicked, deceitful, and
seducing919
| 919 Literally,
“people-deceiving.” | spirit; so also did the
prophets and the apostles receive from God, through Jesus Christ, one and
the same Holy Spirit, who is good, and sovereign,920
and true, and the Author of [saving] knowledge.921
| 921 Literally,
“teaching.” | For there is one God of the Old and
New Testament, “one Mediator between God and men,” for the
creation of both intelligent and sensitive beings, and in order to
exercise a beneficial and suitable providence [over them]. There is also
one Comforter, who displayed922
His power in
Moses, and the prophets, and apostles. All the saints, therefore, were
saved by Christ, hoping in Him, and waiting for Him; and they obtained
through Him salvation, being holy ones, worthy of love and admiration,
having testimony borne to them by Jesus Christ, in the Gospel of our
common hope.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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