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Constitutions of the holy apostles through Clement, bishop and citizen of the Romans, the catholic teaching.

BOOK I Catholic teaching concerning the laity a. Concerning greed. b. Concerning not reviling in return or defending oneself against one who does wrong. c. Concerning adornment and the sin arising therefrom. d. That one must not meddle with those who live badly, but be occupied with one's own work. e. Which books of Scripture must be read. f. Concerning abstaining from all external books. g. Concerning a wicked woman. h. Concerning the subjection of a wife to her husband, and of being a lover of her husband and chaste. Concerning a faithful woman not adorning herself, and how she ought to conduct herself in the marketplace and everywhere. i. Concerning a woman not bathing with men. j. Concerning a contentious and talkative woman. [Prologue.] The apostles and the presbyters to all those from the nations who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God Almighty through our Lord Jesus Christ be multiplied in the knowledge of him. God's planting, the catholic Church, and his chosen vineyard, you who have believed in his unerring piety, you who through faith are reaping his eternal kingdom, who have received his power and the partaking of the Holy Spirit, armed through Jesus and having his fear implanted within you, partakers of the sprinkling of the precious and innocent blood of Christ, you who have received boldness to call the Almighty God Father, co-heirs and joint-partakers of his beloved Son; hear a sacred teaching, you who hold to his promise by the command of the Savior, in accordance with his glorious utterances. Be on your guard, you sons of God, to do all things in obedience to God, and be well-pleasing in all things to the Lord our God; for if anyone pursues lawlessness and does things contrary to the will of God, such a person will be counted by God as a lawless nation. Abstain therefore from all greed and injustice; for it is also written in the Law: "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his field

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∆ιαταγαὶ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων διὰ Κλήμεντος τοῦ Ῥωμαίων ἐπισκόπου τε καὶ πολίτου ἡ καθολικὴ διδασκαλία.

ΒIΒΛIOΝ A Καθολικὴ διδασκαλία περὶ λαϊκῶν α. Περὶ πλεονεξίας. β. Περὶ τοῦ μὴ ἀνθυβρίζειν ἢ ἀμύνασθαι τὸν ἀδικοῦντα. γ. Περὶ καλλωπισμοῦ καὶ τῆς ἐκεῖθεν ἁμαρτίας. δ. Ὅτι οὐ δεῖ περιεργάζεσθαι τοὺς κακῶς ζῶντας, ἀλλὰ τῷ οἰκείῳ ἔργῳ σχολάζειν. ε. Ποῖα τῆς Γραφῆς βιβλία δεῖ ἀναγινώσκειν. ς. Περὶ τοῦ ἀπέχεσθαι πάντων τῶν ἔξωθεν βιβλίων. ζ. Περὶ γυναικὸς φαύλης. η. Περὶ ὑποταγῆς γυναικὸς πρὸς ἄνδρα καὶ φιλάνδρου καὶ σώφρονος. Περὶ τοῦ μὴ καλλωπίζεσθαι γυναῖκα πιστὴν καὶ ὅπως αὐτὴ ἐν ἀγορᾷ καὶ πανταχοῦ διαγίνεσθαι χρή. θ. Περὶ τοῦ μὴ συλλούεσθαι ἀνδράσι γυναῖκα. ι. Περὶ μαχίμου καὶ γλωσσώδους γυναικός. [Πρ.] Oἱ ἀπόστολοι καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι πᾶσι τοῖς ἐξ ἐθνῶν πιστεύσασιν ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν· Χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ τοῦ παντοκράτορος Θεοῦ διὰ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ πληθυνθείη ἐν ἐπιγνώσει αὐτοῦ. Θεοῦ φυτεία ἡ καθολικὴ Ἐκκλησία καὶ ἀμπελὼν αὐτοῦ ἐκλεκτός, οἱ πεπιστευκότες εἰς τὴν ἀπλανῆ θεοσέβειαν αὐτοῦ, οἱ τὴν αἰώνιον καρπούμενοι διὰ πίστεως βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ, δύναμιν αὐτοῦ εἰληφότες καὶ μετουσίαν ἁγίου Πνεύμα τος, ὡπλισμένοι διὰ Ἰησοῦ καὶ ἐνστερνισμένοι τὸν φόβον αὐτοῦ, ῥαντίσματος μέτοχοι τοῦ τιμίου καὶ ἀθώου αἵματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ, οἱ παρρησίαν εἰληφότες τὸν παντοκράτορα Θεὸν πατέρα καλεῖν, συγκληρονόμοι καὶ συμμέτοχοι τοῦ ἠγαπημένου Παιδὸς αὐτοῦ· ἀκούσατε διδασκαλίαν ἱεράν, οἱ ἀντεχόμενοι τῆς ἐπαγγελίας αὐτοῦ ἐκ προστάγματος τοῦ Σωτῆρος, ὁμοστοίχως ταῖς ἐνδόξοις φθογγαῖς αὐτοῦ. Φυλάσσεσθε, οἱ Θεοῦ υἱοί, πάντα εἰς ὑπακοὴν Θεοῦ πράσσειν, καὶ γίνεσθε εὐάρεστοι ἐν πᾶσι Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ ἡμῶν· ἐὰν γάρ τις ἀνομίαν μεταδιώκῃ καὶ τὰ ἐναντία τῷ θελήματι τοῦ Θεοῦ ποιῇ, ὡς παράνομον ἔθνος τῷ Θεῷ ὁ τοιοῦτος λογισθήσεται. Ἀπέχεσθε οὖν πάσης πλεο νεξίας καὶ ἀδικίας· καὶ γὰρ ἐν τῷ Νόμῳ γέγραπται· «Oὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον σου οὐδὲ τὸν ἀγρὸν