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At The Inspiration Of The Hebrews' Epistle, 1
Some tell me that our brother, Timothy,
is said to be soon set at liberty,
and then return to Ephesus. And me?---
I sent to volumes of our history
(in final draft, both) to Theophilus.
Then, weary of Rome and its worldly fuss,
I can come back to Antioch to rest.
Martyred, Paul charged me with a last request
which which I will comply directly, even
if difficult---a treatise on the thought
of that first, holy martyr, Deacon Stephen;
to write down, for our churches, what he taught
(for which he was accused of blasphemy
and stoned to death with frenzied perfidy).
