The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians (Long Version)
Chapter 2: Congratulations and Pleas
Regarding our fellow-servant Burrhus, your deacon in relation to God and blessed in all things, I pray that he may remain blameless for the honor of the Church and of your most blessed bishop. Crocus also, worthy of both God and you, whom we have received as the manifestation of your love to us, has refreshed me in every way and "has not been ashamed of my chain," as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ will also refresh him; along with Onesimus, Burrhus, Euplus, and Fronto, through whom I have, in love, seen all of you. May I always have joy in you, if indeed I am worthy of it. It is therefore fitting that you should in every way glorify Jesus Christ, who has glorified you, so that by a unanimous obedience "you may be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment, and may all speak the same thing concerning the same thing," and that, being subject to the bishop and the presbytery, you may in all respects be sanctified.