while you on your part lend us your aid in entreaty for us, so that from many lips thanksgivings may rise on our behalf for the boon granted to us at the intercession of many.

Thus we are constantly dying, while you are in full enjoyment of Life.

while we look not at things seen, but things unseen; for things seen are temporary, but things unseen are eternal.

We have therefore a cheerful confidence. We know that while we are at home in the body we are banished from the Lord;

how, while passing through great trouble, their boundless joy even amid their deep poverty has overflowed to increase their generous liberality.

I do not urge you to give in order that others may have relief while you are unduly pressed,

while they themselves also in supplications on your behalf pour out their longing love towards you because of God's surpassing grace which is resting upon you.

while we hold ourselves in readiness to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as ever you as a Church have fully shown your obedience.

For this reason I write thus while absent, that when present I may not have to act severely in the exercise of the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for pulling down.