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 :  For I would not have you to be men-pleasers but

to please God, as indeed ye do please Him. For neither

shall I myself ever find an opportunity such as this

to attain unto God, nor can ye, if ye be silent, win

the credit of any nobler work. For, if ye be silent

and leave me alone, I am a word of God; but if ye

desire my flesh, then shall I be again a mere cry.

 :  [Nay] grant me nothing more than that I be

poured out a libation to God, while there is still an

altar ready; that forming yourselves into a chorus in

love ye may sing to the Father in Jesus Christ, for

that God hath vouchsafed that the bishop from Syria

should be found in the West, having summoned him from

the East. It is good to set from the world unto God,

that I may rise unto Him.