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| Chapter I.—Reason of writing the epistle.
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Chapter I.—Reason of writing the
epistle.
Having been informed of your
godly632
| 632 Literally,
“according to God.” | love, so well-ordered, I
rejoiced greatly, and determined to commune with you in the faith of
Jesus Christ. For as one who has been thought worthy of
the most honourable of all names,633
| 633 Literally, “of the most God-becoming name,”
referring either to the appellation “Theophorus,” or to that
of “martyr” or “confessor.” | in those
bonds which I bear about, I commend the Churches, in which I pray for a
union both of the flesh and spirit of Jesus Christ, the constant source
of our life, and of faith and love, to which nothing is to be preferred,
but especially of Jesus and the Father, in whom, if we endure all the
assaults of the prince of this world, and escape them, we shall enjoy
God.
Having been informed of your
godly634
| 634 Literally,
“according to God.” | love, so well-ordered, I
rejoiced greatly, and determined to commune with you in the faith of
Jesus Christ. For as one who has been thought worthy of
a divine and desirable name, in those bonds which I bear about, I commend
the Churches, in which I pray for a union both of the flesh and spirit of
Jesus Christ, “who is the Saviour of all men, but specially of them
that believe;”635
by whose blood ye were
redeemed; by whom ye have known God, or rather have been known by
Him;636
in whom enduring, ye shall
escape all the assaults of this world: for “He is faithful, who
will not suffer you to be tempted above that which ye are
able.”637
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