10.  And I wish to persuade you by an illustration.  For I know that many say, what is a soul profited, which departs from this world either with sins, or without sins, if it be commemorated in the prayer?  For if a king were to banish certain who had given him offence, and then those who belong to them οἱ τούτοις διαφέροντες.  “Hesychius, Διαφέρει, ἀνήκει.  Ubi Kusterus ait, ἀνήκει, id est. “pertinet,” vel “attinet” Routh, Scriptor. Eccles. Opuscula, p. 441).  Dr. Routh’s note refers to Nicæni Conc. Can. xvi.:  ὑφαρπάσαι τὸν τῷ ἑτέρῳ διαφέροντα.  Cf. Synodi Nic. ad Alexandrinos Epist.:  διαφέροντα τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ καὶ τῂ ἁγιωτάτῃ ᾽Αλεξανδρέων ἐκκλησία. should weave a crown and offer it to him on behalf of those under punishment, would he not grant a remission of their penalties?  In the same way we, when we offer to Him our supplications for those who have fallen asleep, though they be sinners, weave no crown, but offer up Christ sacrificed for our sins According to the Ben. Ed. the meaning is not “We offer Christ, who was sacrificed for our sins,” but “We offer for our sins Christ sacrificed,” i.e. “Christ lying on the altar as a victim sacrificed,” in allusion to Apoc. V. 6, 12.  See Index, “Sacrifice.”, propitiating our merciful God for them as well as for ourselves.