1 Now concerning my fellow servant, Burrhus, your deacon by the will of GOD, who is blessed in all things, I beg that he may stay longer, for your honour and for that of the bishop. And Crocus also, who is worthy of GOD and of you, whom I received as an example of your love, has relieved me in every way,—may [GOD] refresh him in like manner,—together with Onesimus and Burrhus and Euplus and Fronto, in whose persons I have seen you all in love. 2. May I ever have joy of you, if I be but worthy. It is, therefore, seemly in every way to glorify [GOD, who has] glorified you, that you may be joined together in one subjection, subject to the bishop and to the presbytery, and may in all things be sanctified.