My soul be for yours and theirs^ whom, for the honour of God, ye have sent to Smyrna ; whence also I write to you, giving thanks unto the Lord, and loving Poly carp even as I do you. Remember me, as Jesus Christ also remembered you. Pray ye for the Church which is in Syria, whence I am led bound to Rome, be- ing the last of the faithful who are there, even as I have been thought worthy to be chosen + to show forth the honour of God. Farewell in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, our* common hope.