Epistles

I know who I am and to whom I write. I am[*](Contrast between himself and his readers) condemned, you have obtained mercy; I am in danger, you are established in safety;

you are the passage for those who are being slain for the sake of God, fellow-initiates with Paul, who was sanctified, who gained a good report, who was right blessed, in whose footsteps may I be found when I shall attain to God, who in every Epistle makes mention of you in Christ Jesus.

Seek, then, to come together more frequently[*](Exhortation to more frequent assemblies) to give thanks[*](It is probable that there is here an allusion to the Eucharist.) and glory to God. For when you gather together frequently the powers of Satan are destroyed, and his mischief is brought to nothing, by the concord of your faith.