Seeing then that I have looked on the whole congregationExhortation to harmony in faith in the persons mentioned above, and have embraced them, I exhort you:—Be zealous to do all things in harmony with God, with the bishop presiding in the place of God and the presbyters in the place of the Council of the Apostles, and the deacons,The sentences seem to be unfinished: the Apostolic Constitutions ii. 26 say Let the Deacon be honoured as a type of Holy Sprit. who are most dear to me, entrusted with the service of Jesus Christ, who was from eternity with the Father and was made manifest at the end of time.