Διδαχή των Δώδεκα αποστόλων = Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
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Διδαχή των Δώδεκα αποστόλων = Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
Church polity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Didache; Worship -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Chap IV: 4 — My child, him that speaks to thee the
word of God remember night and day, and thou shalt
honor him as the Lord; for where that which pertaineth
to the Lord is spoken there the Lord is. And thou shalt
seek out daily the faces of the saints that thou mayst be
refreshed by their words. Thou shalt not desire division,
but shalt make peace between those who content; thou
shalt judge justly, thou shalt not respect persons in con-
victing for transgressions. Thou shalt not hesitate
whether it shall be or not. Become not one who for tak-
ing stretches out the hands, but for giving draws them
in; if thou hast anything, by thy hands thou shalt give
a ransom for thy sins. Thou shalt not hesitate to give,
nor when giving shalt thou murmur, for thou shalt know
who is the good dispenser of the recompense. Thou
shalt not turn away the needy, but shalt share all things
with thy brother, and shalt not say they are thine own;
for it ye are partners in that which is imperishable, how
much more is the perishable things? Thou shalt not
take off thy hand from thy son and from thy daughter,
but from youth thou shalt teach them the fear of God.
Thou shalt not lay commands in thy bitterness upon thy
slave or handmaid, who hope in the same God, lest they
perchance shalt not fear the God who is over you both;
for he cometh not to call men according to the ap-
pearance, but to those whom the Spirit hath made
ready. And ye, slaves, ye shall be subject to your lords,
as to God's image, in modesty and fear. Thou shalt
hate every hypocrisy, and whatever is not pleasing to
the Lord. Thou shalt by no means forsake the Lord's
commandments, but shalt guard what thou hast received,
neither adding to it nor taking from it. In the church
thou shalt confess thy transgressions, and shalt not come
forward for thy prayer with an evil conscience. This
is the way of life.
Chap V: 5 — Now the way of death is this: first of
all it is evil, and full of curse; murders, adulteries, lusts,
fornications, thefts, idolatries, magic arts, sorceries, rob-
beries, false testimonies, hypocrisies, duplicity, craft,
arrogance, vice, presumptuousness, greed, foul speech,
jealousy, over-boldness, loftiness, pretence; persecutors
of the good, hating truth, loving falsehood, knowing not
the reward of righteousness, not cleaving to what which
is good nor to righteous judgment, on the watch not
for good but for evil; far from whom are meekness
and humility, loving vanities, pursuing revenge, not
knowing him that made them, murderers of children,
destroyers of the image of God, turning away the
needy, oppressing the afflicted, advocates of the rich,
lawless judges of the poor, universal sinners: may ye
be delivered, children, from all these.
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