People’s Open Bible
Letters of Ignatius 62
Pray for Syria Church Shepherded
Open in the reader →1Remember in your prayers the church in Syria, which has God as its shepherd in my place. Jesus Christ alone will be its bishop—he and your love.
2But I am ashamed to be called one of them, for I am not worthy, being the very last of them and an untimely birth. Yet I have found mercy so that I may be someone, if indeed I attain to God.
3My spirit greets you, as does the love of the churches that received me in the name of Jesus Christ, not as a mere traveler. For even the churches that were not on my route according to the flesh went ahead of me from city to city.
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