Pray, then, do not seek to confer any greater favour upon me than that I be poured out a libation to God, while there is still an altar ready; that being gathered together in love ye may sing praise to the Father through Jesus Christ, that God has deemed me, the bishop of Syria, worthy to be sent for from the east to the west.
— from The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious: A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot by W. D. (William Dool) Killen
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