Chapter II.--I rejoice in your messengers.
Since, then, I have had the privilege of seeing you, through Damas your most worthy bishop, and through your worthy presbyters Bassus and Apollonius, and through my fellow-servant the deacon Sotio, whose friendship may I ever enjoy, inasmuch as he is subject to the bishop as to the grace of God, and to the presbytery as to the law of Jesus Christ, [I now write 1 to you].
Since, then, I have had the privilege of seeing you, through Damas your most worthy 2 bishop, and through your worthy 3 presbyters Bassus and Apollonius, and through my fellow-servant the deacon Sotio, whose friendship may I ever enjoy, 4 inasmuch as he, by the grace of God, is subject to the bishop and presbytery, in the law of Jesus Christ, [I now write 5 to you].
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The apodosis is here wanting in the original, but must evidently be supplied in some such way as above. ↩
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Literally, "worthy of God." ↩
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Literally, "worthy of God." ↩
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Literally, "whom may I enjoy." ↩
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The apodosis is here wanting in the original, but must evidently be supplied in some such way as above. ↩
