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| Chapter XIX.—The way of light.
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Chapter XIX.—The way of light.
The way of light, then, is as follows. If any one
desires to travel to the appointed place, he must be zealous in his
works. The knowledge, therefore, which is given to us for the purpose of
walking in this way, is the following. Thou shalt love Him that created
thee:1687
| 1687 Cod. Sin. inserts,
“Thou shalt fear Him that formed thee.” | thou
shalt glorify Him that redeemed thee from death. Thou shalt be simple in
heart, and rich in spirit. Thou shalt not join thyself to those who walk
in the way of death. Thou shalt hate doing what is unpleasing to God:
thou shalt hate all hypocrisy. Thou shalt not forsake the commandments of
the Lord. Thou shalt not exalt thyself, but shalt be of a lowly
mind.1688
| 1688 Cod. Sin. adds,
“in all things.” | Thou shalt not take glory to
thyself. Thou shalt not take evil counsel against thy neighbour. Thou
shalt not allow over-boldness to enter into thy soul.1689
| 1689 Literally, “shalt not give
insolence to thy soul.” | Thou shalt not commit fornication: thou shalt not
commit adultery: thou shalt not be a corrupter of youth. Thou shalt not
let the word of God issue from thy lips with any kind of impurity.1690
| 1690 “That is, while
proclaiming the Gospel, thou shalt not in any way be of corrupt
morals.”—Hefele. | Thou shalt
not accept persons when thou reprovest any one for transgression. Thou
shalt be meek: thou shalt be peaceable. Thou shalt tremble at the words
which thou hearest.1691
| 1691
Isa. lxvi. 2. All the preceding clauses are given in
Cod. Sin. in distinct lines. | Thou shalt not be mindful of
evil against thy brother. Thou shalt not be of doubtful mind1692
as to whether a thing shall be or not. Thou
shalt not take the name1693
| 1693
Cod. Sin. has “thy name,” but this is corrected as above.
| of the Lord in vain. Thou shalt love thy neighbour more than
thine own soul.1694
| 1694 Cod.
Sin. corrects to, “as thine own soul.” | Thou shalt
not slay the child by procuring abortion; nor, again, shalt thou destroy
it after it is born. Thou shalt not
withdraw thy hand from thy son, or from thy daughter, but from their
infancy thou shalt teach them the fear of the Lord.1695
Thou shalt not covet what is thy neighbour’s, nor shalt
thou be avaricious. Thou shalt not be joined in soul with the haughty,
but thou shalt be reckoned with the righteous and lowly. Receive thou as
good things the trials1696
which
come upon thee.1697
| 1697 Cod.
Sin. adds, “knowing that without God nothing happens.”
| Thou shalt not be of double mind or of double tongue,1698
| 1698 Cod. Sin. has,
“talkative,” and omits the following clause. | for
a double tongue is a snare of death. Thou shalt be subject1699
| 1699 Cod. Sin. has, “Thou
shalt be subject (ὑποταγήσῃ—
untouched by the corrector) to masters as a type of God.”
| to the Lord, and to [other] masters as the image of God, with
modesty and fear. Thou shalt not issue orders with bitterness to thy
maidservant or thy man-servant, who trust in the same [God1700
| 1700 Inserted in Cod. Sin.
| ], lest thou shouldst not1701
| 1701 Cod. Sin. has, “they should not.”
| reverence that God who is above both; for He came to call men not
according to their outward appearance,1702
but
according as the Spirit had prepared them.1703
Thou shalt communicate in all things with thy
neighbour; thou shalt not call1704
| 1704 Cod. Sin. has, “and not call.” |
things thine own; for if ye are partakers in common of things which are
incorruptible,1705
how much
more [should you be] of those things which are corruptible!1706
| 1706 Cod. Sin. has, “in
things that are subject to death,” but is corrected as above.
| Thou shalt not be hasty with thy tongue, for the mouth is a snare
of death. As far as possible, thou shalt be pure in thy soul. Do not be
ready to stretch forth thy hands to take, whilst thou contractest them to
give. Thou shalt love, as the apple of thine eye, every one that speaketh
to thee the word of the Lord. Thou shalt remember the day of judgment,
night and day. Thou shalt seek out every day the faces of the
saints,1707
| 1707 Or, “the
persons of the saints.” Cod. Sin. omits this clause, but it is
added by the corrector. | either by word examining them, and
going to exhort them, and meditating how to save a soul by the word,1708
| 1708 The text is here confused in
all the editions; we have followed that of Dressel. Cod. Sin. is
defective. Hilgenfeld’s text reads, “Thou shalt seek out
every day the faces of the saints, either labouring by word and going to
exhort them, and meditating to save a soul by the word, or by thy hands
thou shalt labour for the redemption of thy sins”—almost
identical with that given above. | or by thy hands thou shalt
labour for the redemption of thy sins. Thou shalt not hesitate to give, nor murmur when
thou givest. “Give to every one that asketh thee,”1709
and thou shalt
know who is the good Recompenser of the reward. Thou shalt preserve what
thou hast received [in charge], neither adding to it nor taking from it.
To the last thou shalt hate the wicked1710
[one].1711
| 1711 Cod. Sin. inserts
“and.” | Thou shalt judge righteously. Thou shalt
not make a schism, but thou shalt pacify those that contend by bringing
them together. Thou shalt
confess thy sins.
Thou shalt not go to prayer with an
evil conscience. This is the way of light.1712
| 1712 Cod. Sin. omits this clause: it is
inserted by a corrector. | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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