Chapter 2

¹ Now concerning my fellow servant Burrhus, your deacon according to God, blessed in all things, I pray that he may remain with you for the honour of you and the bishop. And Crocus too, who is worthy of God and of you, whom I received as a living example of your love, has refreshed me in every way—may the Father of Jesus Christ refresh him, together with Onesimus and Burrhus and Euplus and Fronto, through whom I have seen all of you in love.

² May I always have joy in you, if indeed I am worthy. So it is fitting in every way to glorify Jesus Christ who has glorified you, so that, united in one submission, submitting to the bishop and the presbytery, you may be sanctified in all things.