Didache 2
Source: Didache, Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (trans. Hitchcock & Brown, 1884) (Didache II) · father
Now the second commandment of the teaching is: Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not corrupt boys, thou shalt not commit fornication, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not practise magic, thou shalt not use sorcery, thou shalt not slay a child by abortion, nor what is begotten shall thou destroy. Thou shalt not lust after the things of thy neighbour, thou shalt not forswear thyself, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not re- vile, thou shalt not bear malice. Thou shalt not be doubled-minded nor doubled-tongued; for a snare of death is the double tongue. Thy speech shall not be false, nor empty, but filled with doing. Thou shalt not be covetous, nor rapacious, nor a hypocrite, nor malicious, nor arrogant. Thou shalt not take evil counsel against thy neighbour. Thou shalt hate no man, but some thou shalt reprove, and for some thou shalt pray, and some thou shalt love above thy life.
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