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If Jesus Christ shall graciously permit me through your prayers, and if it be His will, I
shall, in a second little work which I will write to you, make further manifest to you [the
nature of] the dispensation of which I have begun [to treat], with respect to the new man,
Jesus Christ, in His faith and in His love, in His suffering and in His resurrection. Especially
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[will I do this143] if the Lord make known to me that ye come together man by man in
common through grace, individually,144 in one faith, and in Jesus Christ, who was of the
seed of David according to the flesh, being both the Son of man and the Son of God, so that
ye obey the bishop and the presbytery with an undivided mind, breaking one and the same
bread, which is the medicine of immortality, and the antidote to prevent us from dying, but
[which causes] that we should live for ever in Jesus Christ.
143 The punctuation and meaning are here doubtful.
144 Literally, “by name.”
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Chapter XX.—Promise of another letter.