Chapter XX.—Exhortations to stedfastness and unity.
Stand fast, brethren, in the faith of Jesus Christ, and in His love, in His passion, and in
His resurrection. Do ye all come together in common, and individually,145 through grace,
in one faith of God the Father, and of Jesus Christ His only-begotten Son, and “the first-
born of every creature,”146 but of the seed of David according to the flesh, being under the
guidance of the Comforter, in obedience to the bishop and the presbytery with an undivided
mind, breaking one and the same bread, which is the medicine of immortality, and the an-
tidote which prevents us from dying, but a cleansing remedy driving away evil, [which
causes] that we should live in God through Jesus Christ.
145 Literally, “by name.”
146 Col. i. 15.
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Chapter XX.—Exhortations to stedfastness and unity.