CHAPTER 3

3:1 And you it beseemeth not to despise the youth of your bishop, but to award all reverence unto him, respecting the power of God the Father which is in him, even as I have known the sacred presbyters to do, not having regard to his apparently youthful position, but as wise men in God yielding unto him: yet not unto him but unto the Father of Jesus Christ, who is bishop of all.

3:2 It is therefore right that we should obey without any hypocrisy, to the honour of him who hath willed that we should do so; since not only doth a man deceive the visible bishop, but he also sets at nought the invisible one. But he who doeth such things has to give an account not unto the flesh, but unto God, who knoweth the secret things.