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The Didache, or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles · c. 90–150 AD

Chapter 2

by The Apostolic Fathers c. 90–150 AD

Translated by Kirsopp Lake (1912)


1 But the second commandment of the teaching is this;

2 Thou shalt do no murder; thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not commit sodomy; thou shalt not commit fornication; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not use magic; thou shalt not use philtres; thou shalt not procure abortion, nor commit infanticide; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s goods;

3 thou shalt not commit perjury, thou shalt not bear false witness; thou shalt not speak evil; thou shalt not bear malice.

4 Thou shalt not be double-minded nor double-tongued, for to be double-tongued is the snare of death.

5 Thy speech shall not be false nor vain, but completed in action.

6 Thou shalt not be covetous nor extortionate, nor a hypocrite, nor malignant, nor proud, thou shalt make no evil plan against thy neighbour.

7 Thou shalt hate no man; but some thou shalt reprove, and for some shalt thou pray, and some thou shalt love more than thine own life.

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