Chapter V.—The Way of Death

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Chapter V. ²⁴²⁷ —The Way of Death.

1. And the way of death ²⁴²⁸ is this: First of all it is evil and full of curse: ²⁴²⁹ murders, ²⁴³⁰ adulteries, lusts, fornications, thefts, idolatries, magic arts, witchcrafts, rapines, false witnessings, hypocrisies, double-heartedness, deceit, haughtiness, depravity, self-will, greediness, filthy talking, jealousy, over-confidence, loftiness, boastfulness; 2. persecutors of the good, ²⁴³¹ hating truth, loving a lie, not knowing a reward for righteousness, not cleaving ²⁴³² to good nor to righteous judgment, watching not for that which is good, but for that which is evil; from whom meekness and endurance are far, loving vanities, pursuing requital, not pitying a poor man, not labouring for the afflicted, not knowing Him that made them, murderers of children, destroyers of the handiwork of God, turning away from him that is in want, afflicting him that is distressed, advocates of the rich, lawless judges of the poor, utter sinners. ²⁴³³ Be delivered, children, from all these. ²⁴³⁴  

Footnotes

379:2427

This chapter finds nearly exact parallels in Barnabas, xx., and Apostolic Constitutions, vii. 18, but with curious variations.  

379:2428

Barnabas has “darkness,” but afterwards “way of eternal death.”  

379:2429

Not in Apostolic Constitutions, and no exact parallel in Barnabas.  

379:2430

Of the twenty-two sins named in this verse, Barnabas gives fourteen, in differing order, and in the singular; Apostolic Constitutions gives all but one (υψος, “loftiness” “haughtiness”), in the same order, and with the same change from plural to singular.  

379:2431

This verse appears almost word for word in Barnabas, with two additional clauses.  

379:2432

The Apostolic Constitutions give a parallel from this point; verbally exact from the phrase, “not for that which is good.”  

379:2433

The word πανθαμαρτητοι occurs only here, and in the parallel passage in Barnabas (rendered in this edition “who are in every respect transgressors,” vol. i. p. 149), and in Apostolic Constitutions (rendered “full of sin”). A similar term occurs in the recently recovered portion of 2 Clement, xviii., where Bishop Lightfoot renders, as above, “an utter sinner.”  

379:2434

Found verbatim in Apostolic Constitutions, not in Barnabas: with the latter there is no further parallel, except a few phrases in chap. xvi. 2, 3 (which see).