But I, O thou blessed woman, not being now
so much my own master as in the power of
others, am driven along by the varying wills of
many adversaries,^ being in one sense in exile,
in another in prison, and in a third in bonds.
But I pay no regard to these things. Yea, by
the injuries inflicted on me through them, I ac-
quire all the more the character of a disciple,
that I may attain to Jesus Christ. May I enjoy
the torments which are prepared for me, seeing
that " the sufferings of this present time are not