CHAPTER 6

6:1 Since, then, I have in the persons of those above mentioned beheld as it were your whole multitude in faith and have loved you, I exhort you to be careful to do all things in the unity of God, since the bishop sits in the place of God, and the presbyters in the place of the synod of the Apostles, and the deacons, who are most dear to me, have been entrusted with the ministry of Jesus Christ, who was with the Father before the world began, and was manifested in the end.

6:2 Do ye all then, having put on the same divine disposition, have respect one to another, and let no one behold his neighbour according to the flesh, but love each other continuously in Jesus Christ. Let there be nothing in you that shall be able to divide you, but be ye united to the bishop and to those who preside, after the form and doctrine of incorruption.