Remember in your prayers the Church in Syria, which now has God for its shepherd, instead of me. Jesus Christ alone will oversee it, and your love [will also regard it]. But as for me, I am ashamed to be counted one of them ; for indeed I am not worthy, as being the very last of them, and one born out of due time.^ But I have obtained mercy to be somebody, if I shall attain to God. My spirit salutes you, and the love of the Churches that have received me in the name of Jesus Christ, and not as a mere passer-by. For even those Churches which were not ^ near to me in the way, I mean according to the flesh,^ have gone before me,^ city by city, [to meet me.]