name of God, and for his faith and love, and Ms cast into the mines1; but by your work and by the sweat of your face send him nourishment, and for the wage of the soldiers who guard him, that he may be at ease and be taken care of, but that your blessed brother be not completely afflicted. For he who is condemned for the name of God the Christ, let him be considered by you as a holy Martyr, and an Angel of God, (S. + or as God upon earth) he who is clothed spiritually with the Holy Ghost (S. + of God, by whose means ye behold the Lord our Saviour), because he has been thought worthy of an incorruptible crown (S. + he has renewed the testimony of the Passion). Therefore it is obligatory that all ye believers should diligently comfort the Martyrs with your goods (S. + by means of your Bishops). But if there be a man who has nothing, let him fast, and what he would have spent for himself for that day, let him give to his brother. But if thou art rich, it is required of thee that thou serve them according to thy power, or even that thou give all thy property to redeem them from the chains 2of death2, for they f. 59 a are worthy of God, and children who fulfil His will, as the Lord hath Matt. x. said, " Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him will I also confess