pense you, for whose sake ye have shown such kindness towards His prisoner. For even if I am not worthy of it, yet your zeal [to help me] is an admirable557 thing. For “he who honours a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet’s reward.”558 It is manifest also, that he who honours a prisoner of Jesus Christ shall receive the reward of the martyrs. 557 Or, “great.” 558 Matt. x. 41. 234 Chapter IX.—Honour the bishop.