Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,