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Chapter 5:—Pray for Me.
MY BROTHERS: I am greatly increased in loving you; and rejoicing greatly over you, I seek to secure your safety.
Yet it is not I, but the Lord Jesus through me; for whose sake being bound, I fear more, for I am not yet perfect.
But your prayer to God shall make me perfect, that I may reach what I have been called to, while I flee to the Gospel as to the flesh of Jesus Christ, and to the apostles as the presbytery of the Church.
I also love the prophets as those who announced Christ, and as sharing the same Spirit with the apostles. For just as the false prophets and the false apostles drew to themselves the same wicked, deceitful, and seducing spirit; so also did the prophets and the apostles receive from God, through Jesus Christ, the same Holy Spirit, who is good, sovereign, and true, and the Author of saving knowledge. For there is one God of the Old and New Testament, “one Mediator between God and men,” for the creation of both intelligent and sensitive beings, and to provide beneficial and suitable guidance over them.
There is also one Comforter, who showed His power in Moses, and the prophets, and apostles. All the saints, therefore, were saved by Christ, hoping in Him, and waiting for Him; and they obtained salvation through Him, being holy ones, worthy of love and admiration, having testimony given to them by Jesus Christ, in the Gospel of our common hope.