Why are you afraid of the hard ways of suffering and tribulation? He traveled them himself. You reply, no doubt, “But that was himself.” The apostles traveled them. You still reply, “But that was the apostles.” I accept that. Answer this one; later on many men traveled those ways. Blush for shame: many women traveled them too. Have you come as an old man to the point of martyrdom? Don’t be afraid of death, if only because you are in its neighborhood already. Are you a young man? Young men too