Chapter 9

Remember in your prayers the Church in Syria which has God for its Shepherd in my room. Its bishop shall be Jesus Christ alone,—and your love.

But for myself I am ashamed to be called one of them, for I am not worthy; for I am the least of them, and born out of time; but I have obtained mercy to be someone, if I may attain to God.

My spirit greets you, and the love of the Churches which have received me in the Name of Jesus Christ, not as a mere passer by, for even those which did not lie on my road according to the flesh went before me from city to city.