Apostolic Ordinances: Pseudo-Epigraph

“Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice.

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Try, sons of God, to do everything according to the obedience of God, and in all things please Christ our Lord; for he who succeeds in lawlessness and does contrary to the will of God, he will be counted from God as a lawless pagan.

2. Refrain from all covetousness and injustice; for even in the Law it is written: “do not wish your neighbor’s wife, nor his village, nor his slave, nor his slave, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor all that is thy neighbor’s”, because all this desire is from the evil one . For he who desires a wife or a slave or a slave to his neighbor is an adulterer and a thief by thought; if he does not repent, he is condemned by our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom be glory to God forever. Amen. For in the Gospel, leading, confirming and supplementing the tenfolds of the Law, He says: “the Law says:“ Do not commit adultery, ”I tell you (that is, in the Law I said through Moses, and now I personally tell you): everyone who will look on his neighbor’s neighbor to lust for her, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ” Here wishing recognized as an adulterer in thought! And who wished an ox or a donkey, is he not thinking about stealing and appropriating himself or taking them away? Or, again, whoever wished for the field and remained in such an intention, isn’t he doing evil when, having destroyed the boundary, he compels the owner to give it for nothing? For the prophet says in one place: “Woe to those who attach the house to the house, and who join the field to the field, but something will be taken from the neighbor,” why he says: “Have you settled on the earth alone? For it is heard in the ears of Yahweh of hosts; ” and in another place: "cursed is he who moves the limits of his neighbor, and all the people will say: Amen"; why Moses says: "do not move the limits of your neighbor that your fathers laid." Therefore, fears, deaths, judgments, condemnations follow from those of God. But in people obedient to God, there is one law of God, simple, true, living, this: "that you hate to be from another, you do not create another." You don’t want anyone to look at your wife badly to corrupt her? And you do not look at your neighbor’s wife evilly. Would you like your clothes stolen? And you do not steal another's clothes. Do not want to be beaten, slandered, dishonored? And do not do this to another.