6. For why should I weep for thee, my most loving
brother, who wast thus torn from me that thou mightest be the brother
of all? For I have not lost but changed my intercourse with thee;
before we were inseparable in the body, now we are undivided in
affection; for thou remainest with me, and ever wilt remain. And,
indeed, whilst thou wast living with me, our country never tore thee
from me, nor didst thou thyself ever prefer our country to me; and now
thou art become surety for that other country, for I begin to be no
stranger there where the better portion of myself already is. I
was never wholly engrossed in myself, but the greater part of each of
us was in the other, yet we were each of us in Christ, in Whom is the
whole sum of all, and the portion of each severally. This grave
is more pleasing to me than thy natal soil, in which is the fruit not
of nature but of grace, for in that body which now lies lifeless lies
the better work of my life, since in this body, too, which I bear is
the richer portion of thyself.