Chapter VII.—Exhortation to consistency of conduct.
Ye have been the disciples of Paul and Peter; do not lose what was committed to your
trust. Keep in remembrance Euodias,762 your deservedly-blessed pastor, into whose hands
the government over you was first entrusted by the apostles. Let us not bring disgrace upon
our Father. Let us prove ourselves His true-born children, and not bastards. Ye know after
what manner I have acted among you. The things which, when present, I spoke to you, these
same, when absent, I now write to you. “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him
be Anathema.”763 Be ye followers of me.764 My soul be for yours, when I attain to Jesus.
Remember my bonds.765
762 Some think that this is the same person as the Euodias referred to by St. Paul, Phil. iv. 2; but, as appears
from the Greek (ver. 3, αἵτινες), the two persons there mentioned were women.
763 1 Cor. xvi. 22.
764 Comp. 1 Cor. iv. 16.
765 Comp. Col. iv. 18.
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Chapter VII.—Exhortation to consistency of conduct.