For I, for my part, though absent in the body, yet present in the spirit have already determined, as if I were present with you, respecting him who thus wrought this deed,

But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.

Know ye not, that of those who run in the racecourse all run, but one receiveth the prize? Thus run, that ye may obtain.

But let a man examine himself, and thus let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup;

Whether, then, it were I or they, thus we preach, and thus ye believed.

Thus is it also written: "The first man Adam became a living soul;" the last Adam a lifegiving spirit.