Chapter 5

¹ My brothers, I’m overflowing with love for you, and rejoicing exceedingly I seek to secure you—not I, but Jesus Christ, in whom I’m bound and therefore all the more fearful, since I’m still unfinished. But your prayer to God will complete me, so that I may attain the inheritance in which I’ve received mercy, taking refuge in the gospel as the flesh of Jesus, and in the apostles as the presbytery of the Church.

² And let us also love the prophets, because they too proclaimed the gospel and set their hope in him and waited for him; and believing in him they were saved, being in the unity of Jesus Christ—worthy of love and worthy of admiration, holy ones, attested by Jesus Christ and numbered together in the gospel of our common hope.