The end of all things is near. From now onwards, then, we must bear ourselves with humility, and tremble at God's patience for fear it should turn into a judgment upon us. Let us either flee from His future wrath, or else embrace His present grace; no matter which, so long as we are found in Jesus Christ with our true life before us. Apart from Him, nothing else should have any value in your eyes; but in Him even these chains I wear are a collar of spiritual pearls to me, in which I hope to rise again through the help of your intercessions. - St. Ignatius of Antioch, *To the Ephesians* par. 11
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