Chapter 5

¹ Since, then, in the persons I mentioned above I have seen the whole congregation in faith and loved them, I urge you: be eager to do everything in harmony with God, with the bishop presiding in the place of God and the presbyters in the place of the council of the apostles, and the deacons—who are most dear to me—entrusted with the ministry of Jesus Christ, who before the ages was begotten by the Father and was the Word, God, the only-begotten Son, and at the consummation of the ages remains the same; for of his kingdom there will be no end, says the prophet Daniel. So let us all love one another in harmony, and let no one regard his neighbor according to the flesh, but in Christ Jesus.

² Let there be nothing among you that can divide you, but be united with the bishop, submitting to God through him in Christ.