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| Chapter V.—The duties of deacons, youths, and virgins.
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Knowing, then, that “God is not
mocked,”365
we ought to walk worthy of
His commandment and glory. In like manner should the
deacons be blameless before the face of His righteousness, as being the
servants of God and Christ,366
and
not of men. They must not be slanderers, double-tongued,367
or lovers of money, but temperate in all
things, compassionate, industrious, walking according to the truth of the
Lord, who was the servant368
of all. If we please Him in this present
world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has
promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we
live369
worthily of Him, “we shall also reign
together with Him,”370
provided only we believe.
In like manner, let the young men also be blameless in all things, being
especially careful to preserve purity, and keeping themselves in, as with
a bridle, from every kind of evil. For it is well that they should be cut
off from371
| 371 Some read,
ἀνακύπτεσθαι,
“to emerge from.” [So Chevallier, but not Wake nor Jacobson.
See the note of latter, ad loc.] | the lusts that are in
the world, since “every lust warreth against the
spirit;”372
and “neither
fornicators, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
shall inherit the kingdom of God,”373
nor
those who do things inconsistent and unbecoming. Wherefore, it is needful
to abstain from all these things, being subject to the presbyters and
deacons, as unto God and Christ. The
virgins also must walk in a blameless and pure conscience.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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