Epistles
Ignatius of Antioch
Ignatius of Antioch. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1912.
For when you are in subjection to the bishop as[*](Submission to the bishop, presbyters and deacons) to Jesus Christ it is clear to me that you are living not after men, but after Jesus Christ, who died for
our sake, that by believing on his death you may escape death.