Didache 5
Source: Didache, Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (trans. Hitchcock & Brown, 1884) (Didache V) · father
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.
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: Codex Hierosolymitanus 54 (1056) — sole complete Greek MS, discovered 1873
- translation: Lightfoot translation (1891)
- translation: Roberts-Donaldson Ante-Nicene Fathers vol. 7
- citation_tradition: Quoted by Athanasius, Eusebius, Clement of Alexandria