CHAPTER 3

 3:1  Yea, and it becometh you also not to presume

upon the youth of your bishop, but according to the

power of God the Father to render unto him all

reverence, even as I have learned that the holy

presbyters also have not taken advantage of his

outwardly youthful estate, but give place to him as to

one prudent in God; yet not to him, but to the Father

of Jesus Christ, even to the Bishop of all.

 3:2  For the honour therefore of Him that desired

you, it is meet that ye should be obedient without

dissimulation. For a man doth not so much deceive this

bishop who is seen, as cheat that other who is

invisible; and in such a case he must reckon not with

flesh but with God who knoweth the hidden things.