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overlooks it; for this is a sacrifice to me, this is incense to me and an offering and a gift; but without these things you are worse than the gentiles. You leaders of the bishops, understand, you who are the impression of my image, you who are appointed to converse worthily with me, you who are set above all the righteous, as being in the name of my disciples and myself, bearing the divine character, you who have also received such authority over the common, least assembly, as the Word, who also was incarnate, being God by nature, received from the Father, and having become dual in energies, in wills, in natures likewise, I who exist undivided, unconfused, God-man, and again man-God; for as man I deemed it worthy to be held in your hands, but as God I am altogether incomprehensible to hands of clay and invisible to those who do not see and unapproachable, I who was slain for all, (412) I, the dual one in one hypostasis; You bishops who because of this lord it over all the least ones, as being humble and seated below; You bishops who are far from worthiness, not those whose life concurs with their word and is a seal of their divinely-inspired teaching and divine speech, but those whose life is opposed to their word and to whom my awesome and divine things are unknown, who think they hold bread that is fire, and despise me as mere bread and seem to see and eat a morsel, not seeing my invisible glory; You bishops, the many of the few, the exalted and the ones humbled with a bad and contrary humility, who hunt for the glory of men and overlook me, the creator of all, as a poor and rejected beggar, unworthily touch my body and, seeking to be superior to the many, they enter uninvited inside my sanctuary, and step into the bridal chamber of the mysteries without a garment, of my grace, which they have not yet received, and things which it is not lawful for them to see from without;

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παραβλέψηται˙ τοῦτο γάρ μοι θυσία, τοῦτό μοι θυμίαμα καί προσφορά καί δῶρον˙ χωρίς δέ τούτων ἐθνικῶν ὑμεῖς χείρους. Τῶν ἐπισκόπων οἱ πρόεδροι, σύνετε, οἱ ὄντες ἐκσφράγισμα ἐμῆς εἰκόνος, οἱ συλλαλεῖν μοι ἀξίως τεταγμένοι, οἱ τῶν δικαίων ὑπερκείμενοι πάντων ὡς ὄντες εἰς ὄνομα τῶν μαθητῶν μου κἀμοῦ φέροντες τόν θεῖον χαρακτῆρα, οἱ καί τοῦ κοινοῦ ἐλαχίστου συλλόγου τήν ἐξουσίαν τοιαύτην εἰληφότες, οἵαν ἔλαβον ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός ὁ Λόγος, ὁ καί σαρκωθείς, Θεός ὤν κατά φύσιν, καί διπλοῦς γενόμενος ταῖς ἐνεργείαις, ταῖς θελήσεσι, ταῖς φύσεσιν ὡσαύτως, ὅς ἀμέριστος, ἀσύγχυτος ὑπάρχω Θεός ἄνθρωπος, ἄνθρωπος Θεός πάλιν˙ ὡς γάρ ἄνθρωπος χερσίν ὑμῶν κρατεῖσθαι κατηξίωσα, ὡς Θεός δέ ὑπάρχων παντάπασιν ἄληπτός εἰμι πηλίναις χερσί καί ἀόρατος τοῖς μή ὁρῶσι καί ἀπρόσιτος ὁ σφαγείς ὑπέρ πάντων, (412) ὁ διπλοῦς ἐγώ ἐν μιᾷ ὑποστάσει˙ τῶν ἐπισκόπων οἱ διά τοῦτο πάντων κατεπαίρεσθε τῶν ἐλαχίστων ὡς ταπεινῶν τε καί κάτω καθημένων˙ τῶν ἐπισκόπων οἱ πόρρω τῆς ἀξίας, οὐχ ὧν τῷ λόγῳ καί συντρέχει ὁ βίος καί σφραγίς ἐστι τῆς τούτων θεοπνεύστου διδασκαλίας καί θεορρημοσύνης, ἀλλ᾿ ὧν τῷ λόγῳ ἀντίκειται ὁ βίος καί οἷς ἄγνωστα τά φρικτά μου καί θεῖα, οἵ καί κρατεῖν οἴονται ἄρτον πῦρ ὄντα καί ὡς ψιλοῦ μου καταφρονοῦσιν ἄρτου καί ψωμόν ὁρᾶν καί ἐσθίειν δοκοῦσι, τήν ἀόρατον μή ὁρῶντές μου δόξαν˙ τῶν ἐπισκόπων οἱ πολλοί ἐξ ὀλίγων, οἱ ὑψηλοί τε καί τεταπεινωμένοι τήν κακήν ταπείνωσιν καί ἐναντίαν, οἱ δόξαν θηρώμενοι τήν τῶν ἀνθρώπων κἀμέ παραβλέποντες τόν κτίστην πάντων ὡς πτωχόν καί πένητα ἀπερριμένον, ἀναξίως ἅπτονται τοῦ σώματός μου καί ὑπερέχειν τῶν πολλῶν ἐκζητοῦντες ἀκλήτως εἰσέρχονται ἐμῶν ἀδύτων ἔνδον, τοῦ νυμφῶνός τε τῶν ἀπορρήτων ἐπιβαίνουσι χιτῶνος δίχα, τῆς χάριτός μου, ἥν ἔλαβον οὐδέπω, καί ἅ μή βλέπειν ἔξωθεν τούτοις θέμις˙