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Chapter 2: Don't Save Me From Sacrifice.
FOR IT IS NOT MY DESIRE TO ACT TOWARDS YOU AS SOMEONE WHO SEEKS TO PLEASE PEOPLE: but as someone who pleases God, just as you please Him. For I will never have another opportunity like this to attain to God; nor will you, if you remain silent now, ever be entitled to the honor of a greater work. For if you are silent about me, I shall become God’s; but if you show your love for my flesh, I will have to continue my journey. So, please, do not seek to grant me any greater favor than that I be sacrificed to God while the altar is still prepared; so that, being gathered together in love, you may sing praise to the Father, through Christ Jesus, for deeming me, the bishop of Syria, worthy to be sent from the east to the west. It is good to depart from the world unto God, that I may rise again to Him.