I salute the families of my brethren, with their wives and children, and the virgins who are called widows.[1316] Be ye strong, I pray, in the power of the Holy Ghost. Philo, who is with me, greets you. I salute the house of Tavias, and pray that it may be confirmed in faith and love, both corporeal and spiritual. I salute Alce, my well-beloved,[1317] and the incomparable Daphnus, and Eutecnus, and all by name. Fare ye well in the grace of God. LONGER. I salute the families of my brethren, with their wives and children, and those that are ever virgins, and the widows. Be ye strong, I pray, in the power of the Holy Ghost. Philo, my fellow-servant, who is with me, greets you. I salute the house of Tavias, and pray that it may be confirmed in faith and love, both corporeal and spiritual. I salute Alce, my well-beloved, and the incomparable Daphnus, and Eutecnus, and all by name. Fare ye well in the grace of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, being filled with the Holy Spirit, and divine and sacred wisdom. Footnote 1230: Literally, “holy-bearing.” Footnote 1231: Rom. i. 3. Footnote 1232: Theodoret, in quoting this passage, reads, “the Godhead and power.” Footnote 1233: Matt. iii. 15. Footnote 1234: _i.e._ the cross, “fruit” being put for _Christ on the tree_. Footnote 1235: Isa. v. 26, xlix. 22. Footnote 1236: Col. i. 15. Footnote 1237: Rom. i. 3. Footnote 1238: Matt. iii. 15. Footnote 1239: Literally, “we are.” Footnote 1240: Or, “seeing that they are phantasmal and diabolical,” as some render; but the above is preferable. Footnote 1241: John i. 14. Footnote 1242: John ii. 19. Footnote 1243: John xii. 32. Footnote 1244: Prov. ix. 1. Footnote 1245: Num. xxi. 9; John iii. 14. Footnote 1246: Literally, “in the flesh.” Footnote 1247: Literally, “demon.” According to Jerome, this quotation is from the Gospel of the Nazarenes. Comp. Luke xxiv. 39. Footnote 1248: Literally, “above death.” Footnote 1249: Literally, “demon.” According to Jerome, this quotation is from the Gospel of the Nazarenes. Comp. Luke xxiv. 39. Footnote 1250: Luke xxiv. 39. Footnote 1251: John xx. 27. Footnote 1252: John xx. 28. Footnote 1253: Acts i. 11. Footnote 1254: Rev. i. 7. Footnote 1255: Zech. xii. 10. Footnote 1256: Or, “mark.” Footnote 1257: Comp. Rom. viii. 17. Footnote 1258: Comp. Phil. iv. 13. Footnote 1259: Or, “foolishly.” Footnote 1260: _i.e._ As they imagine Christ to have suffered only in appearance, so they believe that we suffer in vain. Footnote 1261: Literally, “a flesh-bearer.” Footnote 1262: Literally, “a death-bearer.” Footnote 1263: Literally, “a flesh-bearer.” Footnote 1264: Literally, “the glory of the angels.” Footnote 1265: Literally, “judgment is to them.” Footnote 1266: Matt. xix. 12. Footnote 1267: Literally, “the whole is.” Footnote 1268: Matt. xix. 12. Footnote 1269: