But ye have been the objects of mercy, and are estab- lished in Christ. I am one delivered over [to death], but the least of all those that have been cut off for the sake of Christ, " from the blood of righteous Abel " ^ to the blood of Ignatius. Ye are initiated into the mys- teries of the Gospel with Paul, the holy, the martyred, inasmuch as he was " a chosen vessel ;" ^ at whose feet may I be found, and at the feet of the rest of the saints, when I shall attain to Jesus Christ, who is always mindful of you in His prayers.