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The Elder

To dear Gaius,

Whom I love in truth.

Dear brother, I pray that you may be prosperous in everything and be in good health, just as your soul is prospering. For I rejoiced greatly when brothers were coming and bearing witness to your truth, just as you keep living in truth. I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children living in the truth.

Dear brother, you are doing a faithful thing in whatever you are doing towards the brothers and the strangers. And they bore witness to your love before the Church. And you will do well to forward them on their journey worthily of God. For, for the sake of the name, they went out taking nothing from the heathen. So we ought to support such so that we may become their fellowworkers for the truth.

9.

But Dio

I wrote something to the Church. trephes, who is striving to be the first among them, does not receive us. For this reason, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his deeds which he is doing, prating against us with evil words. And not content with this, he is neither receiving the brothers himself, and those who have a desire to do it he is hindering, and is casting them out of the Church.

Dear brother, do not imitate the base but the good. He who keeps doing good is from God. He who keeps doing base things has not seen God. Demetrius has the witness of all men, and of the truth itself. Yes, we also bear witness, and you know our witness is true.

I have many things to write to you, but I do not care to write them to you with pen and ink. But I hope to see you at once and we shall talk face to face.

Peace be with you.

The friends send you their best wishes.

Give our best wishes to the friends by name.

REVELATION.

(Title.)

The Revelation of Jesus Christ,

Which God gave him to show to his slaves,

What must shortly happen.

And he made it known,

By sending his angel,

To his slave John,

Who was a witness to what God said,

And of the testimony which Jesus Christ

gave,

And of everything he saw.

Blessed is he who keeps reading,

And those who keep hearing the sayings of the prophecy,

And constantly keep what is written in it. For the time is near.

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