Epistle to the Romans (Syriac Version)

For there is no other time like this, that I should be considered worthy of God; nor will you, if you remain silent, ever find a better work than this. If you let me be, I shall be the word of God; but if you love my flesh, again I am only a voice to myself. You cannot give me anything more valuable than this, that I should be sacrificed to God, while the altar is ready; that you may be united in love, and may praise God the Father through Jesus Christ our Lord, because He has deemed a bishop worthy to be God’s, having called him from the east to the west. It is good that I should leave the world in God, that I may rise in Him to life.