Forasmuch then as I was permitted to see youThe representatives of the Magnesians in the person of Damas, your godly bishop, and the worthy presbyters Bassus and Apollonius, and my fellow servant the deacon Zotion, whose friendship I would enjoy because he is subject to the bishop as to the grace of God, and to the presbytery as to the law of Jesus Christ,The sentence is unfinished: possibly the text is corrupt.