Chapter 2. Congratulations and entreaties

Chapter 3

1As to my fellow-servant Burrhus, your deacon in regard to God and blessed in all things, I beg that he may continue longer, both for your honour and that of your bishop . And Crocus also, worthy both of God and you, whom I have received as the manifestation of your love , has in all things refreshed 1 Corinthians 16:18 , etc. me, as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ shall also refresh 1 Corinthians 16:18 , etc. him; together with Onesimus, and Burrhus, and Euplus, and Fronto, by means of whom, I have, as to love , beheld all of you. May I always have joy of you, if indeed I be worthy of it. It is therefore befitting that you should in every way glorify Jesus Christ , who has glorified you, that by a unanimous obedience you may be perfectly joined together in the same mind , and in the same judgment, and may all speak the same thing concerning the same thing, 1 Corinthians 1:10 and that, being subject to the bishop and the presbytery , you may in all respects be sanctified.