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Chapter 4:
I WRITE TO ALL THE CHURCHES AND DECLARE TO EVERYONE THAT I WILLINGLY DIE FOR THE SAKE OF GOD: provided that you do not hinder me. I ask of you not to feel towards me with a love that is untimely. Allow me to become prey to the beasts, so that through them I may be deemed worthy of God. I am the wheat of God, and by the teeth of the beasts, I shall be ground, so that I may be found as the pure bread of God. Encourage the wild beasts, so they may become my grave, leaving nothing of my body, in order that, when I have passed away, I may not be a burden to anyone. Then I shall truly be a disciple of Jesus Christ, when the world does not even see my body. Pray to our Lord on my behalf, that through these means, I may be found a sacrifice to God. I do not, like Peter and Paul, give you commands. They are apostles, but I am one condemned; they are indeed free, but I am a slave, even to this moment. However, if I suffer, I shall be the freed-man of Jesus Christ, and I shall rise in Him from the dead, free. And now, being in bonds, I learn to desire nothing.