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| Chapter VI.—Preserve harmony.
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Chapter VI.—Preserve harmony.
Since therefore I have, in the persons before
mentioned, beheld the whole multitude of you in faith and love, I exhort
you to study to do all things with a divine harmony,667
| 667 Literally, “in harmony of
God.” | while your bishop presides in the place of God,
and your presbyters in the place of the assembly of the apostles, along
with your deacons, who are most dear to me, and are entrusted with the
ministry of Jesus Christ, who was with the Father before the beginning of
time,668
| 668 Literally,
“before the ages.” | and in the end was revealed.
Do ye all then, imitating the same divine conduct,669
| 669 Literally, “receiving the like
manners of God.” | pay respect to one another, and let no
one look upon his neighbour after the flesh, but do ye continually love
each other in Jesus Christ. Let nothing exist among you that may divide
you; but be ye united with your bishop, and those that preside over you,
as a type and evidence of your immortality.670
| 670 The meaning is here doubtful.
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Since therefore I have, in the
persons before mentioned, beheld the whole multitude of you in faith and
love, I exhort you to study to do all things with a divine harmony,671
| 671 Literally, “in harmony
of God.” | while your bishop presides in the place of
God, and your presbyters in the place of the assembly of the apostles,
along with your deacons, who are most dear to me, and are entrusted with
the ministry of Jesus Christ. He, being
begotten by the Father before the beginning of time,672
| 672 Literally, “before the
ages.” | was God the Word, the only-begotten Son, and
remains the same for ever; for “of His kingdom there shall be no
end,”673
says Daniel the prophet. Let us all therefore
love one another in harmony, and let no one look upon his neighbour
according to the flesh, but in Christ Jesus. Let nothing exist among you
which may divide you; but be ye united with your bishop, being through
him subject to God in Christ.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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