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Chapter I.—As a prisoner, I hope to...
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Chapter I.—As a prisoner, I hope to...

Chapter I.—As a prisoner, I hope to see you.

Through prayer 822 to God I have obtained the privilege of seeing your most worthy faces, 823 and have even 824 been granted more than I requested; for I hope as a prisoner in Christ Jesus to salute you, if indeed it be the will of God that I be thought worthy of attaining unto the end. For the beginning has been well ordered, p. 74 if I may obtain grace to cling to 825 my lot without hindrance unto the end. For I am afraid of your love, 826 lest it should do me an injury. For it is easy for you to accomplish what you please; but it is difficult for me to attain to God, if ye spare me.

Through prayer to God I have obtained the privilege of seeing your most worthy faces, 827 even as I earnestly begged might be granted me; for as a prisoner in Christ Jesus I hope to salute you, if indeed it be the will [of God] that I be thought worthy of attaining unto the end. For the beginning has been well ordered, if I may obtain grace to cling to 828 my lot without hindrance unto the end. For I am afraid of your love, 829 lest it should do me an injury. For it is easy for you to accomplish what you please; but it is difficult for me to attain to God, if ye do not spare me, 830 under the pretence of carnal affection.

Footnotes
  1. 73:822

    Some read, “since I have,” leaving out the following “for,” and finding the apodosis in “I hope to salute you.”

  2. 73:823

    Literally, “worthy of God.”

  3. 73:824

    Some read, “which I much desired to do.”

  4. 74:825

    Literally, “to receive.”

  5. 74:826

    He probably refers here, and in what follows, to the influence which their earnest prayers in his behalf might have with God.

  6. 74:827

    Literally, “worthy of God.”

  7. 74:828

    Literally, “to receive.”

  8. 74:829

    He probably refers here, and in what follows, to the influence which their earnest prayers in his behalf might have with God.

  9. 74:830

    Some read γε instead of μή, and translate as in shorter recension.

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