“Be not one that stretcheth out his hands to receive, but shutteth them close for giving. “If thou hast, thou shalt give with thine hands a ransom for thy sins. “Thou shalt not hesitate to give, nor when thou givest shalt thou murmur, for thou shalt know who is the good recompenser of the reward. “Thou shalt not turn away from him that needeth, but shalt share all things with thy brother, and shalt not say that they are thine own; for if ye are fellow‐sharers in that which is imperishable, how much more in perishable things. “Thou shalt not take away thine hand from thy son or from thy daughter, but from their youth up shalt thou teach them the fear of God. “Thou shalt not in thy bitterness lay commands on thy man‐servant or thy maid‐servant, who hope in the same God, lest they should not fear him who is God over you both; for He cometh not to call men according to the outward appearance, but to those whom the Spirit hath prepared. “But ye, servants, shall be subject to your masters as to a figure of God in reverence and fear. “Thou shalt hate all hypocrisy, and everything which is not pleasing to the Lord. “Thou shalt not forsake the commandments of the Lord, but shalt keep what thou hast received, neither adding thereto nor taking away from it. “Thou shalt confess thy transgressions, and shalt not come to thy prayer with an evil conscience. This is the way of life. “But the way of death is this. First of all, it is evil and full of curse; murders, adulteries, lusts, fornications, thefts, idolatries, witchcrafts, sorceries, robberies, false‐witnessings, hypocrisies, double‐heartedness, deceit, pride, wickedness, self‐will, covetousness, filthy talking, jealousy, presumption, haughtiness, flattery. “Persecutors of the good, hating truth, loving a lie, not knowing the reward of righteousness, not cleaving to that which is good nor to righteous judgment, watching not for the good but for the evil, far from whom is meekness and patience, loving vain things, seeking after reward, not pitying the poor, not toiling with him who is vexed with toil, not knowing Him that made them, murderers of children, destroyers of the image of God, turning away from him that is in need, vexing him that is afflicted, advocates of the rich, lawless judges of the poor, wholly sinful. “Take heed that no one make thee to err from this way of teaching, since he teacheth thee not according to God.” V. THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. THE RICH YOUNG MAN. It must have been many months after I had heard him discourse in the Galilæan synagogue that I again saw Jesus the Nazarene. We in Jerusalem had our own concerns to think of.