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| Chapter I.—His own sufferings: exhortation to stedfastness.
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Chapter I.—His own sufferings:
exhortation to stedfastness.
From
Syria even unto Rome I fight with beasts: not that I am devoured by brute
beasts, for these, as ye know, by the will of God, spared Daniel, but by
beasts in the shape of men, in whom the merciless wild beast himself lies
hid, and pricks and wounds me day by day. But none of these hardships
“move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself,”1177
in such a way as to love it better than the
Lord. Wherefore I am prepared for [encountering] fire, wild beasts, the
sword or the cross, so that only I may see Christ my Saviour and God, who
died for me. I therefore, the prisoner of Christ, who am driven along by
land and sea, exhort you: “stand fast in the faith,”1178
and be ye steadfast, “for the just shall
live by faith;”1179
be ye unwavering, for “the Lord causes those to dwell in a
house who are of one and the same character.”1180
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