Chap. viii.—Persevere in hope and patience
Let us then continually persevere in our hope, and the earnest of our righteousness, which is Jesus Christ, "who bore our sins in His own body on the tree,"[1] "who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth,"[2] but endured all things for us, that we might live in Him.[3] Let us then be imitators of His patience; and if we suffer[4] for His name's sake, let us glorify Him.[5] For He has set us this example[6] in Himself, and we have believed that such is the case.
Chap. ix.—Patience inculcated.
I exhort you all, therefore, to yield obedience to the word of righteousness, and to exercise all patience, such as ye have seen [set] before your eyes, not only in the case of the blessed Ignatius, and Zosimus, and Rufus, but also in others among yourselves, and in Paul himself, and the rest of the apostles. [This do] in the assurance that all these have not run[7] in vain, but in faith and righteousness, and that they are [now] in their due place in the presence of the Lord, with whom also they suffered. For they loved not this present world, but Him who died for us, and for our sakes was raised again by God from the dead.
Chap. x.—Exhortation to the practice of virtue.[8]
Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood,[9] and being attached to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the meekness
