Chapter 2

¹ For I don’t want you to please men, but to please God, just as you do. I will never have another opportunity like this to reach God, and you, if you remain silent, will have your name inscribed on a greater work.

² For if you remain silent about me, I will become God’s; but if you love my flesh, I will be running again. Grant me nothing more than to be poured out as a libation to God while the altar is still ready, so that, becoming a chorus in love, you may sing to the Father in Christ Jesus, because God has deemed the bishop of Syria worthy to be found in the west, having summoned him from the east as a witness of his own passions. It is good to depart from the world to God, so that I may rise to him.