If thou lovest the good disciples, no thanks are due to thee on that account; but rather seek by meekness to subdue the more troublesome. Every kind of wound is not healed with the same plaster. Mitigate violent attacks [of disease] by gentle applications.¹⁰⁷²

1072 Literally, “paroxysms by embrocations.”

1073 Matt. x. 16.

1074 Literally, “flatter.”

1075 Some refer this to the mysteries of God and others to things yet future.

Be sober as an athlete of God: the prize set before thee is immortality and eternal life, of which thou art also persuaded. In all things may my soul be for thine,¹⁰⁷⁶

1076 Comp. Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians, chap. xxi., etc.

and my bonds also, which thou hast loved.

If thou lovest the good disciples, no thanks are due to thee on that account; but rather seek by meekness to subdue the more troublesome. Every kind of wound is not healed with the same plaster. Mitigate violent attacks [of disease] by gentle applications.¹⁰⁷⁷

1077 Literally, “paroxysms by embrocations.”

Be in all things “wise as a serpent, and harmless always as a dove.”¹⁰⁷⁸

1078 Matt. x. 16.

For this purpose thou art composed of both soul and body, art both fleshly and spiritual, that thou mayest correct those [evils] that present themselves visibly before thee; and as respects those that are not seen, mayest pray that these should be revealed to thee, so that thou mayest be wanting in nothing, but mayest abound in every gift. The times call upon thee to pray. For as the wind aids the pilot of a ship, and as havens are advantageous for safety to a tempest-tossed vessel, so is also prayer to thee, in order that thou mayest attain to God. Be sober as an athlete of God, whose will is immortality and eternal life; of which thou art also persuaded. In all things may my soul be for thine,¹⁰⁷⁹

1079 Comp. Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians, chap. xxi., etc.

and my bonds also, which thou hast loved.

E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH