pense to the Churches, who came to meet him through their rulers, sending 9 letters of thanks- giving to them, which dropped spiritual grace, along with prayer and exhortation. Wherefore, seeing all men so kindly affected towards him, and fearing lest the love of the brotherhood should hinder his zeal towards the Lord,'° while a fair door of suffering martrydom was opened to him, he wrote to the Church of the Romans the Epistle which is here suljjoined. (See the Epistle as formerly given.)