VI.  Wherefore I embrace and salute thee, O noblest of peoples and most Christian, and of warmest piety, and worthy of thy leaders; for I can find nothing greater to say of thee than this, nor anything by which better to welcome thee.  And I greet thee, to a small extent with my tongue, but very heartily with the movements of my affections. Galat. ii. 9.  O my people, for I call you mine, as of one mind and one faith, instructed by the same Fathers, and adoring the same Trinity.  My people, for mine thou art, though it seem not so to those who envy me.  And that they who are in this case may be the deeper wounded, see, I give the right hand of fellowship before so many witnesses, seen and unseen.  And I put away the old calumny by this new act of kindness.  O my people, for mine thou art, though in saying so I, who am least of all men, am claiming for myself that which is greatest.  For such is the grace of the Spirit that it makes of equal honour those who are of one mind.  O my people, for mine thou art, though it be afar, because we are divinely joined together, Isa. lxii. 4. and in a manner wholly different to the unions of carnal people; for bodies are united in place, but souls are fitted together by the Spirit.  O my people, who didst formerly study how to suffer for Christ, but now if thou wilt hearken unto me, wilt study not to do aught, but to consider the power of doing to be a sufficient gain, and to deem that thou art offering a sacrifice to Christ, as in those days of thy endurance so in these of meekness.  O people to whom the Lord hath prepared Himself to do good, as to do evil to thine enemies. Isai. lxiv. 12, etc.  O people, whom the Lord hath chosen to Himself out of all peoples; O people who art graven upon the hands of the Lord, to whom saith the Lord, Thou art My Will; and, Thy gates are carved work, and all the rest that is said to them that are being saved.  O people;—nay, marvel not at my insatiability that I repeat your name so often; for I delight in this continual naming of you, like those who can never have enough of their enjoyment of certain spectacles or sounds.