Anf-03 v.iii.iii Pg 6
<index subject1="Magnesians, Epistle of Ignatius to" subject2="he shows the honour and submission due by them to their bishop" title="60" id="v.iii.iii-p6.1"/><index subject1="Bishop" subject2="though youthful, to be obeyed" title="60" id="v.iii.iii-p6.2"/><index subject1="Youthful piety" title="60" id="v.iii.iii-p6.3"/>Now it becomes you also not to despise the age of your bishop, but to yield him all reverence, according to the will of God the Father, as I have known even holy presbyters do, not having regard to the manifest youth [of their bishop], but to his knowledge in God; inasmuch as “not the ancient are [necessarily] wise, nor do the aged understand prudence; but there is a spirit in men.”647
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 13
VERSE (14) - 1Sa 2:30; 15:28
