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Now I write these things to you from Smyrna by the Ephesians, who are deservedly
most happy. There is also with me, along with many others, Crocus, one dearly beloved by
me.398 As to those who have gone before me from Syria to Rome for the glory of God, I
believe that you are acquainted with them; to whom, [then,] do ye make known that I am
at hand. For they are all worthy, both of God and of you; and it is becoming that you should
refresh them in all things. I have written these things unto you, on the day before the ninth
of the Kalends of September (that399 is, on the twenty-third day of August). Fare ye well to
the end, in the patience of Jesus Christ. Amen.
398 Literally, “the name desired to me.”
399 This clause is evidently an explanatory gloss which has crept into the text.
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