I do not issue orders to you, as if I were some great person. For though I am bound for the name [of Christ], I am not yet perfect in Jesus Christ. For now I begin to be a disciple, and I speak to you as fellow-disciples with me. For it was needful for me to have been stirred up by you in faith, exhortation, patience, and long-suffer- ing. But inasmuch as love suffers me not to be silent in regard to you, I have therefore taken ^ upon me first to exhort you that ye would all run together in accordance with the will of God. For even Jesus Christ, our. inseparable life, is the [manifested] will of the Father; as also bishops, settled everywhere to the utmost bounds [of the earth], are so by the will of Jesus Christ.