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I have learned that you possess a blameless and unwavering mind in endurance, not by habit but by nature, as Polybius your bishop showed me. He came to Smyrna by the will of God and of Jesus Christ and so rejoiced together with me, bound in Christ Jesus, that in him I could behold your whole multitude.
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Having therefore received through him your goodwill according to God, I glorified God, finding you, as I had learned, to be imitators of God.