The Leaders of the Rebellion Must Submit

1 So you who laid the foundation of the rebellion, submit to the presbyters and accept discipline leading to repentance, bending the knees of your heart. 2 Learn to submit, laying aside the arrogant and proud stubbornness of your tongue. For it is better for you to be found small in the flock of Christ and to have your name on God’s roll than to be held in very high honor and yet be cast out from the hope of Him. 3 For thus says the All virtuous Wisdom;⁠a “Look, I will pour out for you a saying of My breath, and I will teach you My word.” 4 “Because I called and you did not obey, and I held out words and you paid no attention, but made My advice of no effect and disobeyed My correction; therefore I also will laugh at your destruction, and will rejoice over you when ruin comes upon you, and when confusion overtakes you suddenly, and your overthrow is at hand like a whirlwind.” 5 “or when you call on Me, I will not hear you. Evil men shall seek Me and not find Me: for they hated wisdom and did not choose the fear of the Lord, nor would they pay attention to My advice, but mocked My correction.” 6 “Therefore they shall eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.” 7 “For because they wronged infants, they shall be killed, and an inquiry shall destroy the ungodly. But the one who hears Me shall dwell safely, trusting in hope, and shall be at rest from all fear of all evil.”