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 1 0 |    Theophorus, to the Church of God the Father and of Jesus
 2 0 |    blameless spirit and word of God. ~
 3 1 |         CHAPTER 1~1:1 I glorify God even Jesus Christ, who hath
 4 1 |        to the flesh, the Son of God according to the will and
 5 1 |        to the will and power of God; truly born of a virgin;
 6 4 |        the sword is nearness to God; to be among the wild beasts
 7 4 |         is to be in the arms of God; only let it be in the name
 8 6 |         they are to the mind of God. They have no care for love,
 9 7 |       speak against the gift of God, die disputing. But it were
10 8 |         unto the commandment of God. Let no one, apart from
11 8 |      also is well pleasing unto God, to the end that whatever
12 9 |        yet time, to repent unto God. It is well to honour God
13 9 |       God. It is well to honour God and the bishop; he who honoureth
14 9 |      the bishop, is honoured of God; he who doeth anything without
15 9 |         absent and present. May God requite you, through whom,
16 10|      servants of Christ, who is God, Philo and Rheus Agathopus,
17 10|     followed me for the sake of God; who also return thanks
18 11|  conscious, but of the grace of God, which I pray may be given
19 11|       prayer, I may attain unto God. ~11:2 In order, therefore,
20 11|      fitting, for the honour of God, that your church should
21 11|         them in accordance with God, and because that by your
22 11|         are willing to do well, God is ready to grant you the
23 12|       pattern of the service of God. Grace shall requite him
24 12|        bishop, who is worthy of God, and your godlike presbyters,
25 12| spiritual, in the unity both of God and of yourselves. Grace
26 13|        Farewell in the grace of God. ~{End of Ignatius to the