Chapter IX.—Concluding salutations
and instructions.
Salute Cassian, my host, and his most serious-minded
partner in life, and their very dear children,
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to whom may
“God grant that they find mercy of the Lord in that
day,”12941294 on account of their ministrations to
us, whom also I commend to thee in Christ. Salute by name all the
faithful in Christ that are at Laodicea. Do not neglect those at Tarsus,
but look after them steadily, confirming them in the Gospel. I salute in
the Lord, Maris the bishop of Neapolis, near Anazarbus. Salute thou also
Mary my daughter, distinguished both for gravity and erudition, as also
“the Church which is in her house.”12951295
May my soul be in place of hers: she is the very pattern of pious
women. May the Father of Christ, by His only-begotten Son, preserve thee
in good health, and of high repute in all things, to a very old age, for
the benefit of the Church of God! Farewell in the Lord, and pray thou
that I may be perfected.
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