CHAPTER 6

 6:1  Seeing then that in the aforementioned persons I

beheld your whole people in faith and embraced them, I

advise you, be ye zealous to do all things in godly

concord, the bishop presiding after the likeness of

God and the presbyters after the likeness of the

council of the Apostles, with the deacons also who are

most dear to me, having been entrusted with the

diaconate of Jesus Christ, who was with the Father

before the worlds and appeared at the end of time.

 6:2  Therefore do ye all study conformity to God and

pay reverence one to another; and let no man regard

his neighbour after the flesh, but love ye one another

in Jesus Christ always. Let there be nothing among you

which shall have power to divide you, but be ye united

with the bishop and with them that preside over you as

an ensample and a lesson of incorruptibility.