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Chapter IV.—The same continued.
Wherefore it is fitting that ye
should run together in accordance with the will of your bishop, which
thing also ye do. For your justly renowned presbytery, worthy of God, is
fitted as exactly to the bishop as the strings are to the harp. Therefore
in your
concord and harmonious love, Jesus Christ is sung.
And do ye, man by man, become a choir, that being harmonious in love, and
taking up the song of God in unison, ye may with one voice sing to the
Father through Jesus Christ, so that He may both hear you, and perceive
by your works that ye are indeed the members of His Son. It is
profitable, therefore, that you should live in an unblameable unity, that
thus ye may always enjoy communion with God.
Wherefore it is fitting that ye
also should run together in accordance with the will of the bishop who by
God’s appointment515
| 515
Literally, “according to God.” | rules over you.
Which thing ye indeed of yourselves do, being instructed by the Spirit.
For your justly-renowned presbytery, being worthy of God, is fitted as
exactly to the bishop as the strings are to the harp. Thus, being joined
together in concord and harmonious love, of which Jesus Christ is the
Captain and Guardian, do ye, man by man, become but one choir; so that,
agreeing together in concord, and obtaining516
| 516 Literally, “receiving a union to God
in oneness.” | a perfect unity with God, ye may indeed be
one in harmonious feeling with God the Father, and His beloved Son Jesus
Christ our Lord. For, says He, “Grant unto them, Holy Father, that
as I and Thou are one, they also may be one in us.”517
It is therefore profitable that you, being
joined together with God in an unblameable unity, should be the followers
of the example of Christ, of whom also ye are members.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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