Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
Ver. 9. Stedfast in the faith] Gr. στερεοι, stiff, solid, settled.
That the same afflictions] Art not thou glad to fare as Phocion? said he to one that was to die with him. (Plutarch.) Ignatius, going to suffer, triumphed in this, that his blood should be found among the mighty worthies, and that when the Lord maketh inquisition for blood, he will recount from the blood of righteous Abel not only to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, but also to the blood of mean Ignatius.