Your prayer has reached to the Church which is at Antioch in Syria. Coming from that place bound with chains, most acceptable to God,-* I salute all ; I who am not worthy to be styled from thence, inasmuch as I am the least of them. Nevertheless, according to the will of God, I have been thought worthy [of this honour], not that I have any sense 5 [of hav- ing deserved it], but by the grace of God, which I wish may be perfectly given to me, that through your prayers I may attain to God. In order, there- fore, that your work may be complete both on earth and in heaven, it is fit- ting that, for the honour of God, your Church should elect some worthy dele- gate ; ^ so that he, journeying into Syria, may congratulate them that they are [now] at peace, and are re- stored to 7 their proper greatness, and that their proper constitution^ has been re-established among them. It seems then to me a becoming thing, that you should send some one of your number with an epistle, so that, in company with them, he may re- joice "^ over the tranquillity which, ac- cording to the will of God, they have obtained, and because that, through your prayers, they have now reached the harbour. As persons who are perfect, ye should also aim at '° those things which are perfect. For when ye are desirous to do well, God is also ready to assist you.