Having thus spoken, he laid his hands upon me in the presence of all, and compelled me to sit in his own chair.  And when I was seated, he immediately said to me:  “I entreat you, in the presence of all the brethren here, that whensoever I depart from this life, as depart I must, you send to James the brother of the Lord a brief account of your reasonings from your boyhood, and how from the beginning until now you have journeyed with me, hearing the discourses preached by me in every city, and seeing my deeds.  And then at the end you will not fail to inform him of the manner of my death, as I said before.  For that event will not grieve him very much, when he knows that I piously went through what it behoved me to suffer.  And he will get the greatest comfort when he learns, that not an unlearned man, or one ignorant of life-giving words, or not knowing the rule of the Church, shall be entrusted with the chair of the teacher after me.  For the discourse of a deceiver destroys the souls of the multitudes who hear.”

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