Ignatitis, who is also called Theophoms, to the Church of God the Father, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is at Philadelphia, which has obtained mercy through love, and is established i?i the hannony of God, and rejoiceth unceasingly,^ in the passion of our Lord Jesus, and is filled with all mercy through His resurrection ; which I salute in the blood of Jesus Christ, who is our eternal and enduring joy, especially to those who are in unity with the bishop, and the presbyters, and the dea- cons, who have been appointed by the will of God the Father, through the Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to His own will, has firmly established His Church upon a rock, by a spiritual building, not made with hands, against which the wi7ids and the floods have beaten, yet have not been able to overthrow it:^ yea, and may spiritual wickedness never be able to do so, but be thoroughly weakened by the power of Jesus Christ our Lord.