Hear therefore, ye Bishops, and hear, ye laymen, that as the Lord hath Ap. con. said, I will judge between ram and ram, and between sheep and sheep, that is to say, between Bishop and Bishop, and between layman and layman ; for if the layman love the layman, let the layman also love the Ap. Con. Bishop and honour him, and reverence him as father and lord and god after God Almighty, for it is said to the Bishop by means of the Apostles, that "all who hear you hear Me, and all that injure you injure Me, and Him i,uiie x. is that sent Me." Again, let the Bishop love the laymen as children, and "f nourish and inflame3 them with the zeal of his love, like eggs, that chickens may come from them ; hatch them like chickens and nourish them as with the nourishment of winged fowls. O Bishop ! teach and admonish every one. Those who are deserving of reproof reprove, and make them sorry, as f. 28 a for conversion and not for destruction. Admonish as for repentance, and