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of his own manner; "For you shall make," he says, "the sons of Israel reverent." Let him be wise, humble-minded, instructive in the Lord's disciplines, of sound judgment, detached from all the wicked practices in life and from all gentile desires. Let him be approachable, quick to discern the wicked and to guard himself from them, while being a friend to all, a just judge, and whatever good things are or exist among men, let the bishop possess these in himself. For being a shepherd blameless of injustice, he will compel his own disciples, and by his conduct will exhort them to become worthy imitators of his own deeds, as the prophet somewhere says: "And it shall be, as with the priest, so with the people." For our Lord and teacher Jesus Christ, the Son of God, began first to do and then to teach, as it says somewhere: "which Jesus began both to do and to teach." Therefore he says: "But whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of God." For you, the bishops, must be watchmen for the people, because you also have Christ as your watchman. Therefore, you also become good watchmen for the people of God, for the Lord says through Ezekiel, speaking to each of you: "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; and you shall hear a word from my mouth, and you shall keep it and declare it from me. When I say to the lawless man: You shall surely die, and you have not spoken to warn the lawless man from his lawlessness, that lawless man will die in his lawlessness, and I will require his blood at your hand; but if you warn the lawless man to turn from his way, and he does not turn, he himself will die in his lawlessness, and you will have saved your soul. Likewise, if a sword of war is coming, and the people set up a watchman for protection, and seeing it coming he does not give a warning and it takes a soul, that soul is taken in its sin, but its blood will be required from the watchman's hand, because he did not sound the trumpet; but if he sounds the horn, and the one who hears does not take heed, and the sword comes and takes him, his blood will be upon him, because he did not take heed when he heard the horn; but the one who took heed has saved his soul, and the watchman, because he gave the signal, shall surely live." The sword is the judgment, but the trumpet is the holy

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τοῦ ἑαυτοῦ τρόπου· «Eὐλαβεῖς γάρ, φησίν, ποιήσατε τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραήλ.» Ἔστω δὲ σοφός, ταπεινόφρων, νουθετητικὸς ἐν ταῖς κυριακαῖς παιδείαις, καλογνώμων, ἀποτεταγμένος πᾶσιν τοῖς ἐν τῷ βίῳ πονηροῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν καὶ πάσαις ἐθνικαῖς ἐπιθυμίαις. Ἔστω εὐπρόστοχος, ὀξὺς πρὸς τὸ γνῶναι τοὺς φαύλους καὶ φυλάσσεσθαι ἀπ' αὐτῶν, φίλος δὲ ὢν πάντων, δικαιοκριτικός, καὶ ὅσα καλὰ ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἔστιν ἢ ὑπάρχει, ταῦτα ὁ ἐπίσκοπος ἐν ἑαυτῷ κεκτήσθω. Ὅτι ἀνεπίληπτος ἀδικίας ὢν ποιμὴν τοὺς ἰδίους αὐτοῦ μαθητὰς ἀναγκάσει καὶ διὰ τῆς ἀναστροφῆς αὐτοῦ προτρέ ψασθαι τῶν ἰδίων αὐτοῦ ποιημάτων μιμητὰς ἀξίους γενηθῆναι, ὡς λέγει που καὶ ὁ προφήτης· «Καὶ ἔσται καθὼς ὁ ἱερεύς, οὕτως καὶ ὁ λαός.» Καὶ γὰρ ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν καὶ διδάσκαλος Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ ἤρξατο ποιεῖν πρῶτον καὶ τότε διδάσκειν, ὥς που λέγει· «ὢν ἤρξατο ὁ Ἰησοῦς ποιεῖν τε καὶ διδάσκειν». ∆ιό φησιν· «Ὃς δ' ἂν ποιήσῃ καὶ διδάξῃ, οὗτος μέγας κληθήσε ται ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ.» Σκοποὺς γὰρ εἶναι δεῖ ὑμᾶς τῷ λαῷ τοὺς ἐπισκόπους, ὅτι καὶ ὑμεῖς σκοπὸν ἔχετε τὸν Χριστόν. Καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν γίνεσθε σκοποὶ ἀγαθοὶ τῷ λαῷ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὅτι λέγει Κύριος διὰ τοῦ Ἰεζεκιὴλ πρὸς ἕκαστον ὑμῶν φάσκων· «Υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, σκοπὸν δέδωκά σε τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰσραήλ, καὶ ἀκούσῃ ἐκ στόματός μου λόγον καὶ διαφυλάξεις καὶ διαγγελεῖς αὐτὸν παρ' ἐμοῦ. Ἐν τῷ λέγειν με τῷ ἀνόμῳ· Θανάτῳ ἀποθανῇ, καὶ οὐκ ἐλάλησας τοῦ διαστεῖλαι ἄνομον ἐκ τῆς ἀνομίας αὐτοῦ, ὁ ἄνομος ἐκεῖνος ἐν τῇ ἀνομίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἀπο θανεῖται, καὶ τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῆς χειρός σου ἐκζητήσω· σὺ δὲ ἐὰν διαστείλῃ τῷ ἀνόμῳ ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀποστρέψαι ἀπ' αὐτῆς, καὶ μὴ ἀποστρέψῃ, αὐτὸς ἐν τῇ ἀνομίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἀποθανεῖται, καὶ σὺ τὴν ψυχήν σου ἐρρύσω. Ὡσαύτως καὶ μάχαιρα πολέμου ἐὰν ᾖ ἐρχομένη, καὶ στήσῃ ὁ λαὸς σκοπὸν εἰς προφυλακὴν καὶ ἰδὼν αὐτὴν ἐρχομένην μὴ προμηνύσῃ καὶ λάβῃ ψυχήν, ἡ μὲν ψυχὴ τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ αὐτῆς ἐλήφθη, τὸ δὲ αἷμα ἐκ χειρὸς τοῦ σκοποῦ ἐκζητηθήσεται, ὅτι οὐκ ἐσήμανεν ἐν τῇ σάλπιγγι· ἐὰν δὲ σημάνῃ τῇ κερατίνῃ καὶ μὴ φυλάξηται ὁ ἀκούσας καὶ ἔλθῃ ἡ μάχαιρα καὶ λάβῃ αὐτόν, τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ ἐπ' αὐτὸν ἔσται, ὅτι οὐκ ἐφυλάξατο ἀκούσας τῆς κερατίνης, ὁ δὲ φυλαξάμενος τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἐρρύσατο, καὶ ὁ σκοπός, ὅτι ἐσήμανεν, ζωῇ ζήσεται.» Μάχαιρα μὲν ἔστιν ἡ κρίσις, σάλπιγξ δὲ τὸ ἱερὸν