love from earth to heaven, walking in company with those that are undefiled. For, says [the Scripture], “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.”69 Now the way is unerring, namely, Jesus Christ. For, says He, “I am the way and the life.”70 And this way leads to the Father. For “no man,” says He, “cometh to the Father but by Me.”71 Blessed, then, are ye who are God-bearers, spirit-bearers, temple-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ, being “a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people,”72 on whose account I rejoice exceedingly, and have had the privilege, by this Epistle, of conversing with “the saints which are at Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus.”73 I rejoice, therefore, over you, that ye do not give heed to vanity, and love nothing according to the flesh, but according to God. 69 Ps. cxix. 1. 70 John xiv. 6. 71 John xiv. 6. 72 1 Pet. ii. 9. 73 Eph. i. 1. 149 Chapter IX.—Ye have given no heed to false teachers.