Now it becomes you also not to
treat your bishop too familiarly on
account of his youth/ but to yield him
all reverence, having respect to ^ the
power of God the Father, as I have
known even holy presbyters do, not
judging rashly, from the manifest
youthful appearance^ [of their bishop],
but as being themselves prudent in
God, submitting to him, or rather not
to him, but to the Father of Jesus
Christ, the bishop of us all. It is
therefore fitting that you should, after
no hypocritical fashion, obey [your
bishop], in honour of Him who has
willed us [so to do], since he that
does not so deceives not [by such
conduct] the bishop that is visible,
but seeks to mock Him that is invisi-
ble. And all such conduct has refer-
ence not to man,'° but to God, who
knows all secrets.