10. These we present to you, dear shepherds,
these we offer to you, with these we welcome our friends, and guests,
and fellow pilgrims. We have nothing fairer or more splendid to
offer to you, for we have selected the greatest of all our possessions,
that you may see that, strangers as we are, we are not in want, but
though poor are making many rich. 2 Cor. vi. 10. If these
things are small and unworthy of notice, I would fain learn what is
greater and of more account. For, if it be no great thing to have
established and strengthened with wholesome doctrines a city which is
the eye of the universe, in its exceeding strength by sea and land,
which is, as it were, the link between the Eastern and Western shores,
in which the extremities of the world from every side meet together,
and from which, as the common mart of the faith, they take their rise,
a city borne hither and thither on the eddying currents of so many
tongues, it will be long ere anything be considered great or worthy of
esteem. But if it be indeed a subject for praise, allow to us
some glory on this account, since we have contributed in some portion
to these results which ye see.