Epistles

I know that you are full of God, and I have[*](Request for the prayers of the Magnesians) exhorted you briefly. Remember me in your prayers, that I may attain to God, and remember the Church in Syria, of which I am not worthy to be called a member. For I need your united prayer in God and your love, that the Church which is in Syria may be granted refreshment from the dew of your Church.

The Ephesians greet you from Smyrna,[*](Final greetings) whence also I am writing to you; they, like yourselves, are here for the glory of God and have in all things given me comfort, together with Polycarp the bishop of the Smyrnaeans. And the other Churches also greet you in honour of Jesus Christ. Farewell in godly concord and may you possess an unhesitating[*](The translation a spirit that knows no division is possible, and perhaps suits the context here better than unhesitating, but the latter rendering seems to be justified by Trallians i,1. A somewhat different shade of meaning is found in Ignatius, Ephesians iii, 2.) spirit, for this is Jesus Christ.