Chapter VII.—Solemn charge to Hero, as future bishop of Antioch.
Keep God in remembrance, and thou shalt never sin. Be not double-minded809 in thy
prayers; for blessed is he who doubteth not. For I believe in the Father of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and in His only-begotten Son, that God will show me, Hero, upon my throne. Add
speed, therefore,810 to thy course. I charge thee before the God of the universe, and before
Christ, and in the presence of the Holy Spirit, and of the ministering ranks [of angels], keep
in safety that deposit which I and Christ have committed to thee, and do not judge thyself
unworthy of those things which have been shown by God [to me] concerning thee. I hand
over to thee the Church of Antioch. I have commended you to Polycarp in the Lord Jesus
Christ.
809 Comp. Jas. i. 6, 8.
810 Comp. Epistle to the Antiochians, chap. xii.
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Chapter VII.—Solemn charge to Hero, as future bishop of Antioch.