when we suffer, brethren. When he is called by any one of us he endureth not to shut his ears to us, but as being everywhere he hearkeneth to all of us, and just now (has hearkened) to both me and Drusiana—forasmuch as he is the God of them that are shut up—bringing help to us by his own compassion.
104. "Be ye also persuaded, therefore, beloved, that it is no man whom I preach unto you to worship, but God unchangeable, God invincible, God higher than all authority, and all power, and older and mightier than all the angels and creatures that are spoken of, and all ages (aeons). If ye then abide in him, and in him are builded up, ye shall possess your soul indestructible.' '
105. And when he had delivered these things unto the brethren, John departed with Andronicus to walk; and Drusiana also followed afar off together with all, that they might behold the acts that were done and hear his word always in the Lord.[1]
THE END OF JOHN
(Aa. pp. 203–215).[2]
106. On the following day, which was the Lord's day, and in the presence of the brethren, he
- ↑ Codex C. adds after " Lord ": now and always and for ever and ever. Amen.
- ↑ For the text see also Tischendorf, Acta, pp. 272-276; Zahn, loc. cit., pp. 239 ff.; comp. also Lipsius, I, p. 490 ff. The whole consists of two parts: the first describes a Sunday- service—the last of John (c. 106-110), the second the burial of the apostle (c. 111-115).
