is discreetly silent, the more he should stand in fear of him."
Icnatius oF ANTIOCH rank and file,** should also form a choir, so that, joining the symphony by your concord, and by your unity taking your key note from God, you may with one voice through Jesus
Christ sing a song to the Father. 'Thus He will both listen to you and by reason of your good life recognize in you the melodies *® of His Son. It profits you, therefore, to continue in your flawless unity, that you may at all times have a share in God.
5. For a fact, if I in a short time became so warmly attached to your bishop—an attachment based not on human grounds but on spiritual **"—how much more do I count you happy who are as closely knit to him as the Church is to Jesus Christ, and as Jesus Christ is to the Father! As a result, the symphony of unity is perfect.
2 Let no one deceive himself: unless a man is within the sanctuary, he has to go without the Bread of God.* Assuredly, if the prayer of one or two has such efficacy," how much more that of the bishop and the entire Church! 3 It follows, then: he who absents himself from the common meeting, by that very fact shows pride and becomes a sectarian; for the Scripture says: *® God resists the proud. Let us take care, therefore, not to oppose the bishop, that we may be submissive to God.
6. Furthermore: the more anyone observes that a bishop is discreetly silent, the more he should stand in fear of him."
Obviously, anyone whom the Master of the household puts in charge of His domestic affairs, ought to be received by us in the same spirit as He who has charged him with this duty.
Plainly, then, one should look upon the bishop as upon the Lord Himself. 2 Now, Onesimus for his part overflows with praise of the good order that, thanks to God, exists in your midst. 'Truth is the rule of life for all of you, and heresy has