spirit to draw near to Him with reverence.18 I then, not as your teacher, but as one of
yourselves, will set forth a few things by which in present circumstances ye may be rendered
the more joyful.
18 Instead of, “to Him with fear,” the reading of Cod. Sin., the Latin has, “to His altar,” which Hilgenfeld adopts.
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