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according to the flesh,^[1] have gone before me,^[2] city by city, [to meet me.]

not near to me in the way, have brought me forward, city by city.

Chap. x.—Conclusion.

Now I write these things to you from Smyrna by the Ephesians, who are deservedly most happy. There is also with me, along with many others, Crocus, one dearly beloved by me.^[3] As to those who have gone before me from Syria to Rome for the glory of God, I believe that you are acquainted with them; to whom, [then,] do ye make known that I am at hand. For they are all worthy, both of God and of you; and it is becoming that you should refresh them in all things. I have written these things unto you, on the day before the ninth of the Kalends of September (that^[4] is, on

Now I write these things to you from Smyrna by the Ephesians, who are deservedly most happy. There is also with me, along with many others. Crocus, one dearly beloved by me.^[3] As to those who have gone before me from Syria to Rome for the glory of God, I believe that you are acquainted with them; to whom, [then,] do ye make known that I am at hand. For they are all worthy, both of God and of you; and it is becoming that you should refresh them in all things. I have written these

1. i.e. the outward road he had to travel.
2. Or, "have sent me forward;" comp. Tit. iii. 13.
3. Literally, "the name desired to me."
4. This clause is evidently an explanatory gloss which has crept into the text.