Or “to the holy virgins who are in God: peace.” So Zingerle, and probably Wetstein.
Editorial footnote · Two Epistles Concerning Virginity, Chapter I.—The Salutation.; original source section: Chapter 1, editorial note cite_note-3 · Original source
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Chapter I.—The Salutation.; original source section: Chapter 1
Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.
English translation and editorial credits: Benjamin Plummer Pratten (original ANF VIII translator credit), Alexander Roberts (Edinburgh series editor), James Donaldson (Edinburgh series editor), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (American revision with prefaces and notes), Matthew Brown Riddle (American volume collaborator; individual note authorship unspecified).
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To all those who love and cherish their life in Christ through God the Father, and obey the truth of God in hope of eternal life; to those who bear affection towards their brethren and towards their neighbours in the love of God; to the blessed virgins, who devote themselves to preserve virginity “for the sake of the kingdom of heaven;” and to the holy virgins: the peace which is in God.