Barclay The letters to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
Colossians 2: 2-7
Epictetus was not a Christian, but that little, old, lame slave who became one of the great moral teachers of paganism, wrote: “What else can I, a lame old man, do but sing hymns to God? If, indeed, I were a nightingale, I would be singing as a nightingale; if a swan, as a swan. But, as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must be singing hymns of praise to God. This is my task; I do it, and will not desert this post, as long as it may be given to me to fill it; and I exhort you to join with me in the same song.” The Christian will always praise God from whom all blessings flow.
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