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This chapter finds nearly exact parallels in Barnabas, xx., and Apostolic Constitutions, vii. 18, but with curious variations. | —The Way of Death.
1. And the way of death2428 is this: First of all it is evil and full of curse:2429
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Not in Apostolic Constitutions, and no exact parallel in Barnabas. | murders,2430
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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. | 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
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This verse appears almost word for word in Barnabas, with two additional clauses. | hating truth, loving a lie, not knowing a reward for righteousness, not cleaving2432
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The Apostolic Constitutions give a parallel from this point; verbally exact from the phrase, “not for that which is good.” | 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
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