Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, Complete

CHAPTER XI.

AN­NAEUS SENECA to PAUL Greet­ing.

ALL hap­pi­ness to you, my dear­est Paul.

2 If a per­son so great, and ev­ery way agree­able as you are, be­come not on­ly a com­mon, but a most in­ti­mate friend to me, how hap­py will be the case of Seneca!

3 You there­fore, who are so em­inent, and so far ex­alt­ed above all, even the great­est, do not think your­self un­fit to be first named in the in­scrip­tion of an Epis­tle;

4 Lest I should sus­pect you in­tend not so much to try me, as to ban­ter me; for you know your­self to be a Ro­man cit­izen.

5 And I could wish to be in that cir­cum­stance or sta­tion which you are, and that you were in the same that I am. Farewell, dear­est Paul. Dat­ed the tenth of the cal­ends of April, in the Con­sul­ship of Apri­anus and Capi­to.