Epistle to the Ephesians (Syriac Version)

As your name, which is greatly beloved, is acceptable to me in God, [your name] which you have acquired by nature, through a right and just will, and also by the faith and love of Jesus Christ our Savior, and you are imitators of God, and are fervent in the blood of God, and have quickly completed a work congenial to you; [for] when you heard that I was bound, and unable to do anything for the sake of the common name and hope (and I hope, through your prayers, that I may be devoured by beasts at Rome, so that by means of this, for which I have been deemed worthy, I may be endowed with strength to be a disciple of God), you were diligent to come and see me. Seeing, then, that we have become acquainted with your multitude in the name of God, by Onesimus, who is your bishop, in love which is unutterable, whom I pray that you love in Jesus Christ our Lord, and that all of you imitate his example, for blessed is He who has given you such a bishop, just as you deserve [to have].