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 began to say to them: "Brethren, fellow-servants, coheirs, and copartners of the Kingdom of the Lord, ye know the Lord, how many powers he hath given you through me, how many miracles, what cures, signs, what gifts, teachings, rulings, rests, services, knowledge, glories, graces, gifts, faiths, communions, all gifts that you have seen with your eyes, were given you by him, as they cannot be seen with these eyes and cannot be heard with these ears. Be strong, therefore, in him, remembering him in all your doings, knowing the mystery of the dispensation that has come to men, for the sake of which the Lord hath worked. He, then, through me, exhorts you, since he wishes to remain without grief, without insult, without treachery, without punishment. For he also knows insult from you, he knows also dishonor, treachery and punisment, [sic] if you disobey his commandments.

107. "Let not, therefore, our good God be grieved, the compassionate, the merciful, the holy, the undefiled, the incorporeal, the only, the one, the immutable, the sincere, the guileless, the slow to anger, he that is higher and more exalted than every name that we speak or think of, our God Jesus Christ! Let him rejoice along with us, because we live in purity; let him rest because we behave reverently. Let him be unconcerned, because we are temperate; let him be pleased because we live in fellowship; let him smile because we are sober-minded, and let him be delighted because we love him! These things, brethren, I communicate to you, pressing