REGINA Magazine 8, Ireland | Page 155

REGINA | 155

“Is it of my own doing that I have holy mercy on the people who once took me captive and made away with the servants and maids of my father’s house? I was freeborn according to the flesh. I am the son of a decurion. But I sold my noble rank I am neither ashamed nor sorry to say, for the good of others. Thus I am a servant in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of life everlasting God.”