Epistles

Forasmuch then as I was permitted to see you[*](The representatives of the Magnesians) in the person of Damas, your godly bishop, and the worthy presbyters Bassus and Apollonius, and my fellow servant the deacon Zotion, whose friendship I would enjoy because he is subject to the bishop as to the grace of God, and to the presbytery as to the law of Jesus Christ,---[*](The sentence is unfinished: possibly the text is corrupt.)

Now it becomes you not to presume on the[*](The bishop of Magnesia) youth of the bishop, but to render him all respect according to the power of God the Father, as I have heard that even the holy presbyters have not taken advantage of his outwardly youthful appearance, but yield to him in their godly prudence, yet not to him, but to the Father of Jesus Christ, to the bishop of all.