Chapter X.—Exhortation to the practice of virtue.³⁹¹

391 This and the two following chapters are preserved only in a Latin version. [See Jacobson, ad loc.]

Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood,³⁹²

392 Comp. 1 Pet. ii. 17.

and being attached to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the meekness of the Lord in your intercourse with one another, and despising no one. When you can do good, defer it not, because “alms delivers from death.”³⁹³

393 Tobit iv. 10, Tobit xii. 9.

Be all of you subject one to another³⁹⁴

394 Comp. 1 Pet. v. 5.

“having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles,”³⁹⁵

395 1 Pet. ii. 12.

that ye may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed!³⁹⁶

396 Isa. lii. 5.

Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct.

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