Apostolic Constitutions 6.18.1–6.29.4

Anonymous · Apostolic Constitutions · ca. 380 · Antioch (probably) · 67 passages

Pseudonymous: Presented as the teaching of the apostles, handed down by Clement of Rome; the compiler is anonymous (often linked with the interpolator of the long recension of Ignatius).

Greek text: Funk 1905.English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).

Apostolic 6, chapter 18

6.18.1Funk 1:341

Τοὺς μετανοοῦντας προσδέχεσθε, τοῦτο γὰρ θέλημα θεοῦ ἐν Χριστοῦ τοὺς κατηχουμένους στοιχειώσαντες βαπτίσατε, τοὺς ἀθέους αἱρεσιώτας ἀμετανοήτως ἔχοντας διαστείλαντες ἀφορίσατε ἀπὸ τῶν πιστῶν καὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκηρύκτους ποιήσατε, καὶ παραγγείλατε τοῖς πιστοῖς παντοίως αὐτῶν ἀπέχεσθαι καὶ μήτε λόγῳ μήτε προσευχαῖς κοινωνεῖν αὐτοῖς.

Tous metanoountas prosdechesthe, touto gar thelēma theou en Christou tous katēchoumenous stoicheiōsantes baptisate, tous atheous hairesiōtas ametanoētōs echontas diasteilantes aphorisate apo tōn pistōn kai tēs ekklēsias tou theou ekkēryktous poiēsate, kai parangeilate tois pistois pantoiōs autōn apechesthai kai mēte logǭ mēte proseuchais koinōnein autois.

Receive those who repent, “for this is the will of God in Christ”; baptize the catechumens after instructing them in the first elements; set apart the godless heretics who remain unrepentant, separate them from the faithful and make them banished from the church of God, and charge the faithful to keep away from them in every way and to share with them neither in word nor in prayers.

1 Thess 5:18 (quotation, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Penitents are received, catechumens baptized, and unrepentant heretics expelled and shunned.

Cf. 1 Thess 5:18.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,τ → τ; ῦ“ → ῦ ; ἐκκηρύχτους → ἐκκηρύκτους.

Topics: Heresy, Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.18.1 (Funk 1:341; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-18-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Funk, Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum (1905; OCR made for this site, slips corrected as logged corrections) and compared afterwards with ANF 7.

6.18.2Funk 1:341–343

οὗτοι γάρ εἰσιν ἀντίδικοι καὶ ἐπίβουλοι τῆς ἐκκλησίας, οἱ διαφθείροντες τὸ ποίμνιον καὶ μολύνοντες τὴν κληρονομίαν, οἱ δοξόσοφοι καὶ παμπόνηροι, περὶ ὧν ἔλεγεν Σολομὼν ὃ σοφός, ὅτι δυσσεβοῦντες ὑποκρίνονται εὐσεβεῖν. Ἔστι γάρ, φησίν, ὁδός, ἣ δοκεῖ τισιν εὐθὴς εἶναι, τὰ δὲ τελευταῖα αὐτῆς βλέπει εἰς πυθμένα ᾅδου.

houtoi gar eisin antidikoi kai epibouloi tēs ekklēsias, hoi diaphtheirontes to poimnion kai molynontes tēn klēronomian, hoi doxosophoi kai pamponēroi, peri hōn elegen Solomōn ho sophos, hoti dyssebountes hypokrinontai eusebein. Esti gar, phēsin, hodos, hē dokei tisin euthēs einai, ta de teleutaia autēs blepei eis pythmena hądou.

For these are adversaries and plotters against the church, who corrupt the flock and defile the inheritance, the seemingly wise and utterly wicked, of whom Solomon the wise said that, acting impiously, they pretend to piety. “For there is a way,” he says, “which seems right to some, but its end looks to the depth of Hades.”

Prov 14:12 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Heretics corrupt the flock and only pretend to piety.

Quotation: Prov 14:12 (16:25).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ι“ → ι ; οδδός, ἢ → ὁδός, ἣ; ἔδου“ → ᾅδου.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.18.2 (Funk 1:341–343; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-18-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.18.3Funk 1:343

οὗτοί εἰσιν, περὶ ὧν ὃ κύριος πικρῶς καὶ ἀποτόμως ἀπεφήνατο λέγων, ὅτι εἰσὶν ψευδόχριστοι καὶ ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι, οἱ βλασφημήσαντες τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς χάριτος καὶ ἀποπτύσαντες τὴν παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ δωρεὰν μετὰ τὴν χάριν, οἷς οὐκ ἀφεθήσεται οὔτε ἐν τῷ αἰῶνι τούτῳ οὔτε ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι, οἱ καὶ Ἰουδαίων δυσσεβέστεροι καὶ Ἑλλήνων ἀθεώτεροι᾽

houtoi eisin, peri hōn ho kyrios pikrōs kai apotomōs apephēnato legōn, hoti eisin pseudochristoi kai pseudodidaskaloi, hoi blasphēmēsantes to pneuma tēs charitos kai apoptysantes tēn par᾽ autou dōrean meta tēn charin, hois ouk aphethēsetai oute en tǭ aiōni toutǭ oute en tǭ mellonti, hoi kai Ioudaiōn dyssebesteroi kai Hellēnōn atheōteroi᾽

These are those concerning whom the Lord declared bitterly and severely, saying that they are false christs and false teachers, who have blasphemed the Spirit of grace and spat out the gift from him after grace, “to whom it will not be forgiven either in this age or in the age to come”; more impious than the Jews and more godless than the Greeks;

Matt 24:24 (allusion, medium confidence) · Heb 10:29 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 12:32 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Heretics have blasphemed the Spirit and will not be forgiven.

Matt 24:24; Heb 10:29; Matt 12:32.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): εἶσιν → εἰσιν; τὴ» χάριν, ,0ig → τὴν χάριν, οἷς; ι“, → ι,; “Ἑλλήνων → Ἑλλήνων.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.18.3 (Funk 1:343; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-18-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.18.4Funk 1:343

οἱ θεὸν τὸν ἐπὶ πάντων βλασφημοῦντες καὶ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ καταπατοῦντες καὶ τὴν διδασκαλίαν τοῦ πνεύματος διαπτύοντες, οἱ τοὺς θείους λόγους ἀρνούμενοι ἢ μεθʼ ὑποκρίσεως προσποιούμενοι δέχεσθαι, ἐφ᾽ ὕβρει θεοῦ καὶ ἀπάτῃ τῶν προσιόντων αὐτοῖς, οἱ τὰς ἱερὰς γραφὰς ἐνυβρίζοντες καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην

hoi theon ton epi pantōn blasphēmountes kai ton huion autou katapatountes kai tēn didaskalian tou pneumatos diaptyontes, hoi tous theious logous arnoumenoi ē methʼ hypokriseōs prospoioumenoi dechesthai, eph᾽ hybrei theou kai apatę̄ tōn prosiontōn autois, hoi tas hieras graphas enybrizontes kai tēn dikaiosynēn

who blaspheme God who is over all, and trample on his Son, and spit on the teaching of the Spirit; who deny the divine words, or pretend with hypocrisy to accept them, to insult God and to deceive those who come to them; who insult the holy Scriptures, and, as for righteousness,

Heb 10:29 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Heretics blaspheme the Father, Son and Spirit and abuse the Scriptures.

The sentence runs on into the next ref. Heb 10:29.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): τὲν → τὸν; xoi → καὶ; δικαιοσύνη» → δικαιοσύνην.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.18.4 (Funk 1:343; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-18-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.18.5Funk 1:343–345

τε ποτέ ἐστιν ἀγνοοῦντες, οἱ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ θεοῦ διαφθείροντες ὡς ἀλώπεκες μικροὶ ἀμπελῶνα καὶ μερίδες ἀλωπέκων γινόμενοι. οὓς φεύγειν ὑμᾶς παρακαλοῦμεν, ἵνα μὴ λάβητε βρόχους ταῖς ἑαυτῶν ψυχαῖς· Ὁ συμπορευόμενος γὰρ σοφοῖς σοφὸς ἔσται, ὃ δὲ συμπορευόμενος ἄφροσιν γνωσθήσεται.

te pote estin agnoountes, hoi tēn ekklēsian tou theou diaphtheirontes hōs alōpekes mikroi ampelōna kai merides alōpekōn ginomenoi. hous pheugein hymas parakaloumen, hina mē labēte brochous tais heautōn psychais; Ho symporeuomenos gar sophois sophos estai, ho de symporeuomenos aphrosin gnōsthēsetai.

do not know what it ever is; who corrupt the church of God like “little foxes” a “vineyard,” and become “portions of foxes.” Them we exhort you to flee, so that you may not take snares to your own souls; “for he who walks with the wise will be wise, but he who walks with fools will be known.”

Song 2:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 63:10 (62:11 LXX) (allusion, medium confidence) · Prov 22:25 (allusion, medium confidence) · Prov 13:20 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The faithful must flee heretics, who ruin the church like foxes in a vineyard.

A stray numeral (ς) in the scan is removed. Song 2:15; Ps 63:10 (62:11 LXX); Prov 22:25; quotation: Prov 13:20.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: stray numeral removed; οὓς): oí τὴν → οἱ τὴν; ,,ἀ → ἀ; α“ → α ; »μ → μ; ν“ → ν ; ς. οὖς → οὓς; " ,,Ἑ0ῶὼ}Εσυμπορευόμενος → · Ὁ συμπορευόμενος; ι“. → ι..

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.18.5 (Funk 1:343–345; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-18-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.18.6Funk 1:345

οὔτε γὰρ κλέπτῃ δεῖ συντρέχειν, οὐδὲ μετὰ μοιχοῦ μερίδα τίθεσθαι, ἐπείπερ καὶ ὁ ὅσιος Δαυίδ φησιν, Κύριε, τοὺς μισοῦντάς σε ἐμίσησα καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐχθρούς σου ἐξετηκόμην, τέλειον μῖσος ἐμίσουν αὐτούς, εἰς ἐχθροὺς ἐγένοντό μοι.

oute gar kleptę̄ dei syntrechein, oude meta moichou merida tithesthai, epeiper kai ho hosios Dauid phēsin, Kyrie, tous misountas se emisēsa kai epi tous echthrous sou exetēkomēn, teleion misos emisoun autous, eis echthrous egenonto moi.

For one must not run with a thief nor cast one's lot with an adulterer, since the holy David too says, “Lord, I hated those who hate you, and I pined away over your enemies; I hated them with a perfect hatred; they became enemies to me.”

Ps 50:18 (49:18 LXX) (allusion, high confidence) · Ps 139:21–22 (138:21-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: As David hated God's enemies, the faithful must keep away from the wicked.

Ps 50:18 (49:18 LXX); quotation: Ps 139:21–22 (138:21–22 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): yàp → γὰρ; ν", → ν,; ι“. → ι..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.18.6 (Funk 1:345; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-18-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.18.7Funk 1:345

καὶ τῷ Ἰωσαφὰτ ὃ θεὸς ὀνειδίζει διὰ τὴν πρὸς Ἀχαὰβ φιλίαν καὶ συμμαχίαν καὶ τὴν πρὸς Ὀχοζίαν, λέγων διὰ Ἰοὺ τοῦ προφήτου· Εἰ ἁμαρτωλῷ σὺ φιλιάζεις ἢ μισουμένῳ ὑπὸ κυρίου σὺ βοηθεῖς; διὰ τοῦτο ἐξαίφνης ὀργὴ κυρίου ἐγένετο ἐπὶ σέ, εἰ μὴ ὅτι εὑρέθη ἡ καρδία σου τελεία πρὸς κύριον, διὰ τοῦτο ἐφείσατό σου κύριος· πλὴν ὅτι διεκόπη τὰ ἔργα σου καὶ συνετρίβησαν αἱ νῆές σου.

kai tǭ Iōsaphat ho theos oneidizei dia tēn pros Achaab philian kai symmachian kai tēn pros Ochozian, legōn dia Iou tou prophētou; Ei hamartōlǭ sy philiazeis ē misoumenǭ hypo kyriou sy boētheis? dia touto exaiphnēs orgē kyriou egeneto epi se, ei mē hoti heurethē hē kardia sou teleia pros kyrion, dia touto epheisato sou kyrios; plēn hoti diekopē ta erga sou kai synetribēsan hai nēes sou.

And God reproaches Jehoshaphat for his friendship and alliance with Ahab and with Ahaziah, saying through Jehu the prophet, “Do you make friends with a sinner, or help one hated by the Lord? For this reason wrath from the Lord came suddenly upon you; yet because your heart was found perfect toward the Lord, the Lord spared you; but your works were broken off and your ships were shattered.”

2 Chr 19:2–3 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Chr 20:35–37 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God rebuked Jehoshaphat for his alliances with wicked kings.

Quotations: 2 Chr 19:2–3 combined with 20:37.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): " ,,El ἁμαρτωλῷ → · Εἰ ἁμαρτωλῷ; εὐρέθη → εὑρέθη; καρθία → καρδία; " πλὴν» → · πλὴν; συνετρίβησαν» oi vig → συνετρίβησαν αἱ νῆές; υ“. → υ..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.18.7 (Funk 1:345; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-18-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.18.8Funk 1:345

φεύγετε οὖν τῆς κοινωνίας αὐτῶν, καὶ τῆς πρὸς αὐτοὺς εἰρήνης ἀλλότριοι τυγχάνετε᾽ περὶ αὐτῶν γὰρ ὃ προφήτης ἀπεφήνατο, λέγων, ὅτι Οὐκ ἔστιν χαίρειν τοῖς ἀσεβέσιν, λέγει κύριος.

pheugete oun tēs koinōnias autōn, kai tēs pros autous eirēnēs allotrioi tynchanete᾽ peri autōn gar ho prophētēs apephēnato, legōn, hoti Ouk estin chairein tois asebesin, legei kyrios.

Flee, then, their fellowship, and be strangers to peace with them; for concerning them the prophet declared, saying, “There is no rejoicing for the ungodly, says the Lord.”

Isa 48:22 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The faithful must avoid fellowship with heretics.

Quotation: Isa 48:22 (57:21) LXX.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,0)0x → Οὐκ; ς“. → ς..

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.18.8 (Funk 1:345; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-18-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.18.9Funk 1:345

οὗτοι γάρ εἰσιν οἱ κρύφιοι λύκοι, οἱ ἐνεοὶ κύνες οἱ οὐ δυνάμενοι ὑλακτεῖν, οἱ νῦν μὲν εἰσὶν ὀλίγοι, προκόψαντος δὲ τοῦ χρόνου καὶ τῆς συντελείας ἐγγιζούσης πλείονες καὶ χαλεπώτεροι ἔσονται, περὶ ὧν ὁ κύριος ἔλεγεν, ὅτι Ἆρα ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐλθὼν εὑρήσει τὴν πίστιν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς; καί· Διὰ τὸ πληθυνθῆναι τὴν ἀνομίαν ψυγήσεται ἡ ἀγάπη τῶν πολλῶν, καὶ ἐλεύσονται ψευδόχριστοι καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται καὶ δώσουσι σημεῖα ἐν οὐρανῷ, ὥστε εἰ δυνατόν καὶ τοὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς ἀπατῆσαι, ὧν τῆς ἀπάτης ῥύσεται ἡμᾶς κύριος ὁ θεὸς διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, τῆς ἐλπίδος ἡμῶν. καὶ γὰρ καὶ ἡμεῖς, διερχόμενοι τὰ ἔθνη καὶ ἐπιστηρίζοντες τὰς ἐκκλησίας, τοὺς μὲν ἐν πολλῇ νουθεσίᾳ καὶ λόγῳ ἰατικῷ ἐγιάσαρεες ἐπανηγάγομεν μέλλοντας ὅσον οὐδέπω θνήσκειν ἀπάτῃ, τοὺς δὲ ἀνιάτως ἔχοντας ἐξεβάλομεν τῆς ποίμνης, ἵνα μὴ ψωραλέας νόσου μεταδῶσιν καὶ τοῖς ὑγιαίνουσιν ἀρνίοις, ἀλλὰ καθαρὰ καὶ ἄχραντα, ὑγιῆ καὶ ἄσπιλα διαμείνῃ κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ.

houtoi gar eisin hoi kryphioi lykoi, hoi eneoi kynes hoi ou dynamenoi hylaktein, hoi nyn men eisin oligoi, prokopsantos de tou chronou kai tēs synteleias engizousēs pleiones kai chalepōteroi esontai, peri hōn ho kyrios elegen, hoti Ara ho huios tou anthrōpou elthōn heurēsei tēn pistin epi tēs gēs? kai; Dia to plēthynthēnai tēn anomian psygēsetai hē agapē tōn pollōn, kai eleusontai pseudochristoi kai pseudoprophētai kai dōsousi sēmeia en ouranǭ, hōste ei dynaton kai tous eklektous apatēsai, hōn tēs apatēs rhysetai hēmas kyrios ho theos dia Iēsou Christou, tēs elpidos hēmōn. kai gar kai hēmeis, dierchomenoi ta ethnē kai epistērizontes tas ekklēsias, tous men en pollę̄ nouthesią kai logǭ iatikǭ egiasarees epanēgagomen mellontas hoson oudepō thnēskein apatę̄, tous de aniatōs echontas exebalomen tēs poimnēs, hina mē psōraleas nosou metadōsin kai tois hygiainousin arniois, alla kathara kai achranta, hygiē kai aspila diameinę̄ kyriǭ tǭ theǭ.

For these are the hidden wolves, the “dumb dogs that cannot bark,” who are now few, but as time advances and the consummation draws near they will be more numerous and more grievous; of whom the Lord said, “When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” and, “Because lawlessness is multiplied, the love of many will grow cold; and false christs and false prophets will come and will give signs in heaven, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect”; from whose deceit the Lord God will deliver us through Jesus Christ, our hope. [10] For we too, going through the nations and confirming the churches, brought back some with much admonition and healing words, having cured them when they were all but dying of the deception; but those who were incurable we cast out of the flock, so that they might not pass on their mangy disease to the healthy lambs, but that these might remain pure and undefiled, healthy and spotless to the Lord God.

Isa 56:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 18:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 24:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 24:24 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Tim 1:1 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Heretics will multiply before the end; the apostles healed some and cast out the incurable.

The section number 10 was lost in the OCR; “[10]” marks where it begins. The word rendered “having cured” is garbled in the scan; translated by sense.
Isa 56:10; Luke 18:8; Matt 24:12, 24; 1 Tim 1:1.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: section number (10) removed): χρύφιοι → κρύφιοι; δύναμενοι → δυνάμενοι; ν“, → ν,; ὅτι ἄρα → ὅτι Ἆρα; “; καί᾽ ,.Διὰ → ; καί· Διὰ; ἐκχλεχτοὺς → ἐκλεκτοὺς; ι“, → ι,; διὰ, → διὰ; ". IO. καὶ → . καὶ; và ἔθνη xol → τὰ ἔθνη καὶ; iv πολλῇ → ἐν πολλῇ; θνήσκει» → θνήσκειν; μεεαδῶσιν → μεταδῶσιν.

Topics: Heresy, Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.18.9 (Funk 1:345; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-18-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.18.11Funk 1:345–347

καὶ ταῦτα κατὰ πόλιν πᾶσαν εἰς ὅλην τὴν οἰκουμένην πεποιήκαμεν, καταλιπόντες ὑμῖν τοῖς ἐπισκόποις καὶ λοιποῖς ἱερεῦσιν τήνδε τὴν καθολικὴν διδασκαλίαν ἀξίως καὶ δικαίως εἰς μνημόσυνον ἐπιστηρισμοῦ τοῖς πεπιστευκόσι θεῷ, διαπεμψάμενοι διὰ τοῦ συλλειτουργοῦ ἡμῶν Κλήμεντος τοῦ πιστοτάτου καὶ ὁμοψύχου τέκνου ἡμῶν ἐν κυρίῳ, ἅμα καὶ Βαρνάβᾳ καὶ Τιμοθέῳ τῷ ποθεινοτάτῳ υἱῷ καὶ Μάρκῳ τῷ γνησίῳ, σὺν οἷς καὶ Τίτον ὑμῖν γνωρίζομεν καὶ Λουκᾶν, Ἰάσωνά τε καὶ Λούκιον καὶ Σωσίπατρον.

kai tauta kata polin pasan eis holēn tēn oikoumenēn pepoiēkamen, katalipontes hymin tois episkopois kai loipois hiereusin tēnde tēn katholikēn didaskalian axiōs kai dikaiōs eis mnēmosynon epistērismou tois pepisteukosi theǭ, diapempsamenoi dia tou sylleitourgou hēmōn Klēmentos tou pistotatou kai homopsychou teknou hēmōn en kyriǭ, hama kai Barnabą kai Timotheǭ tǭ potheinotatǭ huiǭ kai Markǭ tǭ gnēsiǭ, syn hois kai Titon hymin gnōrizomen kai Loukan, Iasōna te kai Loukion kai Sōsipatron.

And these things we have done in every city throughout the whole world, leaving to you the bishops and the other priests this catholic teaching, worthily and justly, as a memorial of confirmation for those who have believed in God, sending it through our fellow minister Clement, our most faithful and like-minded child in the Lord, together with Barnabas and Timothy, our most dearly beloved son, and Mark, the genuine one; with whom we also commend to you Titus and Luke, Jason and Lucius and Sosipater.

Rom 16:21 (allusion, medium confidence) · 2 Tim 4:11 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The apostles sent this teaching to the bishops through Clement and other companions.

Rom 16:21; 2 Tim 4:11.

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Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.18.11 (Funk 1:345–347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-18-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 19

6.19.1Funk 1:347

Δι᾽ ὧν καὶ παρακαλοῦμεν ὑμᾶς ἐν κυρίῳ, ἀπέχεσθαι παλαιᾶς συνηθείας καὶ δεσμῶν ματαίων, ἀφορισμῶν, παρατηρήσεων, βρωμάτων διορισμοῦ, βαπτισμάτων καθημερινῶν· τὰ ἀρχαῖα γὰρ παρῆλθεν, ἰδοὺ γέγονεν καινὰ τὰ πάντα.

Di᾽ hōn kai parakaloumen hymas en kyriǭ, apechesthai palaias synētheias kai desmōn mataiōn, aphorismōn, paratērēseōn, brōmatōn diorismou, baptismatōn kathēmerinōn; ta archaia gar parēlthen, idou gegonen kaina ta panta.

Through them we also exhort you in the Lord to abstain from the old custom and vain bonds: separations, observances, distinctions of foods, daily washings; for “the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

2 Cor 5:17 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Christians must give up the old ritual customs.

Quotation: 2 Cor 5:17.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.19.1 (Funk 1:347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-19-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.19.2Funk 1:347

γνόντες γὰρ θεὸν διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ τὴν σύμπασαν αὐτοῦ οἰκονομίαν ἀρχῆθεν γεγενημένην, ὅτι δέδωκεν νόμον ἁπλοῦν εἰς βοήθειαν τοῦ φυσικοῦ, καθαρόν, σωτήριον, ἅγιον, ἐν ᾧ καὶ τὸ ἴδιον ὄνομα ἐγκατέθετο, τέλειον, ἀνελλειπῆ, δέκα λογίων πλήρη, ἄμωμον, ἐπιστρέφοντα ψυχάς, οὗπερ καὶ ἐπιλαθομένους Ἑβραίους ὑπομιμνήσκει διὰ Μαλαχίου τοῦ προφήτου λέγων Μνήσθητε νόμου Μωσῆ, ἀνθρώπου τοῦ θεοῦ, ὃς ἐνετείλατο ὑμῖν προστάγματα καὶ δικαιώματα.

gnontes gar theon dia Iēsou Christou kai tēn sympasan autou oikonomian archēthen gegenēmenēn, hoti dedōken nomon haploun eis boētheian tou physikou, katharon, sōtērion, hagion, en hǭ kai to idion onoma enkatetheto, teleion, anelleipē, deka logiōn plērē, amōmon, epistrephonta psychas, houper kai epilathomenous Hebraious hypomimnēskei dia Malachiou tou prophētou legōn Mnēsthēte nomou Mōsē, anthrōpou tou theou, hos eneteilato hymin prostagmata kai dikaiōmata.

For you have come to know God through Jesus Christ, and his whole dispensation from the beginning: that he gave a simple law to help the natural law, pure, saving, holy, in which he also set down his own name; perfect, lacking nothing, full of ten oracles, “blameless, converting souls”; which, when the Hebrews forgot it, he reminds them of through Malachi the prophet, saying, “Remember the law of Moses, the man of God, who commanded you ordinances and judgments.”

Ps 19:7 (18:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Mal 4:4 (3:22 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God gave a simple law, the Ten Commandments, to help the natural law.

Ps 19:7 (18:8 LXX); quotation: Mal 4:4 (3:22 LXX).

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Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.19.2 (Funk 1:347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-19-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.19.3Funk 1:347

ὃς τοσοῦτόν ἐστιν ἅγιος καὶ δίκαιος, ὡς καὶ τὸν σωτῆρά ποτε, θεραπεύσαντα λεπρὸν ἕνα καὶ πάλιν ἐννέα, εἰπεῖν τῷ πρώτῳ᾽ Πορευθεὶς δεῖξον σεαυτὸν τῷ ἀρχιερεῖ, καὶ προσένεγκε τὸ δῶρον, ὃ προσέταξεν Μωσῆς εἰς μαρτύριον αὐτοῖς, τοῖς δὲ ἐννέα πάλιν Πορευθέντες ἐπιδείξατε ἑαυτοὺς τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν

hos tosouton estin hagios kai dikaios, hōs kai ton sōtēra pote, therapeusanta lepron hena kai palin ennea, eipein tǭ prōtǭ᾽ Poreutheis deixon seauton tǭ archierei, kai prosenenke to dōron, ho prosetaxen Mōsēs eis martyrion autois, tois de ennea palin Poreuthentes epideixate heautous tois hiereusin

And this law is so holy and righteous that the Savior too, when he once healed one leper and again nine, said to the first, “Go, show yourself to the high priest and offer the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them,” and again to the nine, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.”

Matt 8:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 17:14 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Christ honored the law by sending healed lepers to the priests.

The OCR split this ref from the next with footnote references, which are removed. Quotations: Matt 8:4; Luke 17:14.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.19.3 (Funk 1:347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-19-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.19.4Funk 1:347–349

οὐ γάρ που κατέλυσεν τὸν νόμον, ὡς Σίμων δοξάζει, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπλήρωσεν· λέγει γάρʼ Ἰῶτα ἕν ἢ μία κεραία οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου, ἕως ἂν πάντα γένηται· οὐ γὰρ ἦλθον φησίν, καταλῦσαι τὸν νόμον ἢ τοὺς προφήτας, ἀλλὰ πληρῶσαι. καὶ γὰρ καὶ Μωσῆς, νομοθέτης ὁμοῦ καὶ ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ προφήτης καὶ βασιλεύς, καὶ Ἠλίας ὃ ζηλωτὴς τῶν προφητῶν συνῆσαν ἐν τῇ μεταμορφώσει τοῦ κυρίου ἐν τῷ ὄρει μάρτυρες αὐτοῦ τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως καὶ τῶν παθημάτων, ὡς φίλοι Χριστοῦ καὶ οἰκεῖοι, ἀλλ᾽ οὐχ ὡς ἐχθροὶ ἢ ἀλλότριοι· ἐξ ὧν δείκνυται, ὅτι καὶ ὃ νόμος καλὸς καὶ ἅγιος καὶ οἱ προφῆται.

ou gar pou katelysen ton nomon, hōs Simōn doxazei, all᾽ eplērōsen; legei garʼ Iōta hen ē mia keraia ou mē parelthę̄ apo tou nomou, heōs an panta genētai; ou gar ēlthon phēsin, katalysai ton nomon ē tous prophētas, alla plērōsai. kai gar kai Mōsēs, nomothetēs homou kai archiereus kai prophētēs kai basileus, kai Ēlias ho zēlōtēs tōn prophētōn synēsan en tę̄ metamorphōsei tou kyriou en tǭ orei martyres autou tēs enanthrōpēseōs kai tōn pathēmatōn, hōs philoi Christou kai oikeioi, all᾽ ouch hōs echthroi ē allotrioi; ex hōn deiknytai, hoti kai ho nomos kalos kai hagios kai hoi prophētai.

For he did not abolish the law, as Simon thinks, but fulfilled it; for he says, “One iota or one stroke shall not pass from the law until all is accomplished; for I did not come,” he says, “to abolish the law or the prophets, but to fulfil.” [4] For Moses too, lawgiver and high priest and prophet and king together, and Elijah, the zealot among the prophets, were present at the Lord's transfiguration on the mountain as witnesses of his incarnation and his sufferings, as friends of Christ and members of his household, not as enemies or strangers; from which it is shown that both the law and the prophets are good and holy.

Matt 5:18 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:17 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 17:3 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 9:30–31 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Christ fulfilled the law, and Moses and Elijah witnessed his transfiguration as his friends.

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Quotations: Matt 5:18, 17. Matt 17:3; Luke 9:30–31.

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Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.19.4 (Funk 1:347–349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-19-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 20

6.20.1Funk 1:349

Νόμος δέ ἐστιν ἡ δεκάλογος, ἣν πρὸ τοῦ τὸν λαὸν μοσχοποιῆσαι τὸν παρ᾽ Αἰγυπτίοις Ἄπιν θεὸς αὐτοῖς ἐνομοθέτησεν ἀκουστῇ φωνῇ· οὗτος δὲ δίκαιός ἐστιν, διὸ καὶ νόμος λέγεται διὰ τὸ φύσει δικαίως τὰς κρίσεις ποιεῖσθαι· ὃν οἱ περὶ Σίμωνα φαυλίζουσιν, οἰόμενοι, μὴ κριθέντες ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ τὴν κόλασιν ἐκφεύγειν.

Nomos de estin hē dekalogos, hēn pro tou ton laon moschopoiēsai ton par᾽ Aigyptiois Apin theos autois enomothetēsen akoustę̄ phōnę̄; houtos de dikaios estin, dio kai nomos legetai dia to physei dikaiōs tas kriseis poieisthai; hon hoi peri Simōna phaulizousin, oiomenoi, mē krithentes hyp᾽ autou tēn kolasin ekpheugein.

Now the law is the Decalogue, which God gave them as law with an audible voice before the people made the calf, the Apis of the Egyptians; and this law is righteous, and for that reason it is also called law, because by nature it passes judgments justly; it is this law that the followers of Simon disparage, thinking that they will escape punishment if they are not judged by it.

Exod 20:1–17 (allusion, medium confidence) · Exod 32:4 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: The law proper is the Decalogue, given before the golden calf; the Simonians despise it.

Exod 20:1–17; 32:4.

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Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.20.1 (Funk 1:349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-20-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.20.2Funk 1:349

οὗτος ὃ νόμος ἀγαθός, ὅσιος, ἀκατανάγκαστος. φησὶν γάρ· Ἐὰν δὲ ποιήσῃς μοι θυσιαστήριον, ἐκ γῆς ποιήσεις μοι αὐτό.

houtos ho nomos agathos, hosios, akatanankastos. phēsin gar; Ean de poiēsę̄s moi thysiastērion, ek gēs poiēseis moi auto.

This law is good, holy, imposing no compulsion. For it says, “And if you make me an altar, you shall make it of earth for me.”

Exod 20:24–25 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The Decalogue's law imposes no compulsion about altars.

Quotation: Exod 20:24–25.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.20.2 (Funk 1:349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-20-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.20.3Funk 1:349–351

οὐχ εἶπεν. Ποίησον, ἀλλ᾽ Ἐὰν ποιήσῃς, οὐκ ἀνάγκην περιέθηκεν, ἀλλὰ τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ ἐπέτρεψεν ἅτε ἐλευθέρᾳ.

ouch eipen. Poiēson, all᾽ Ean poiēsę̄s, ouk anankēn periethēken, alla tę̄ exousią epetrepsen hate eleutherą.

It did not say, “Make one,” but “If you make one”; it did not lay on necessity, but left it to their power, as being free.

Notes and citation

Summary: Sacrifice was permitted, not commanded.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.20.3 (Funk 1:349–351; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-20-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.20.4Funk 1:351

οὐ γὰρ θυσιῶν δέεται ὃ θεός, ἀνενδεὴς ὑπάρχων τῇ φύσει ἀλλὰ γινώσκων, καθάπερ καὶ ἤδη πρότερον τὸν φιλόθεον Ἄβελ καὶ Νῶε καὶ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τοὺς καθεξῆς οὐκ αἰτηθέντας, φυσικῷ δὲ νόμῳ κινηθέντας ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτῶν προσενέγκαι θυσίαν θεῷ ἀπὸ γνώμης εὐχαρίστου, ἐπιτρέπει καὶ νῦν Ἑβραίοις, οὐ προστάσσων, ἀλλ᾽, εἰ βουληθῶσιν, συγχωρῶν καί, εἰ ἀπὸ ὀρθῆς προσοίσουσι γνώμης, εὐδοκῶν ἐπὶ ταῖς θυσίαις αὐτῶν.

ou gar thysiōn deetai ho theos, anendeēs hyparchōn tę̄ physei alla ginōskōn, kathaper kai ēdē proteron ton philotheon Abel kai Nōe kai Abraam kai tous kathexēs ouk aitēthentas, physikǭ de nomǭ kinēthentas aph᾽ heautōn prosenenkai thysian theǭ apo gnōmēs eucharistou, epitrepei kai nyn Hebraiois, ou prostassōn, all᾽, ei boulēthōsin, synchōrōn kai, ei apo orthēs prosoisousi gnōmēs, eudokōn epi tais thysiais autōn.

For God has no need of sacrifices, being by nature without need; but knowing that earlier too Abel, who loved God, and Noah and Abraham and those after them, without being asked, but moved by the natural law, offered sacrifice to God of themselves from a grateful mind, he now permits the Hebrews too, not commanding but allowing it if they wish, and being pleased with their sacrifices if they offer them from an upright mind.

Gen 4:4 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 8:20 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 22:13 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God needs no sacrifice; he allowed it as the patriarchs had offered it freely by natural law.

Gen 4:4; 8:20; 22:13.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.20.4 (Funk 1:351; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-20-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.20.5Funk 1:351

διὰ τοῦτό φησιν, Εἰ θύειν ἐπιθυμεῖς, οὐ δεομένῳ μοι θῦες οὐδενὸς γὰρ ἐν χρείᾳ καθέστηκα᾽· ἐμὴ γάρ ἔστιν ἡ οἰκουμένη καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆς.

dia touto phēsin, Ei thyein epithymeis, ou deomenǭ moi thyes oudenos gar en chreią kathestēka᾽; emē gar estin hē oikoumenē kai to plērōma autēs.

For this reason he says, “If you desire to sacrifice, do not sacrifice to me as though I needed it, for I am in need of nothing”; “for the world is mine, and its fullness.”

Ps 50:12 (49:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God accepts sacrifice without needing it.

The first saying is unidentified; the second is Ps 50:12 (49:12 LXX).

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.20.5 (Funk 1:351; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-20-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.20.6Funk 1:351–353

ὁπότε δὲ οἱ τοῦ λαοῦ τούτων ἀμνήμονες ὑπῆρξαν, καὶ μόσχον ἀντὶ θεοῦ θεὸν ἐπεκαλέσαντο καὶ τούτῳ τὴν αἰτίαν τῆς ἐξ Αἰγύπτου πορείας ἐπέγραψαν λέγοντες· Οὗτοι οἱ θεοί σου, Ἰσραήλ, οἱ ἐξαγαγόντες σε ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, καὶ δυσσεβήσαντες͵εἰς ὁμοίωμα μόσχου ἐσθίοντος χόρτον ἀπηρνήσαντο θεὸν τὸν διὰ Μωσέως ἐπισκεψάμενον αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ θλίψει αὐτῶν, τὸν τὰ σημεῖα ἐπὶ χειρὸς καὶ ῥάβδου ποιησάμενον, τὸν τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους δεκαπλήγῳ πατάξαντα, τὸν τὴν ἐρυθρὰν διελόντα θάλασσαν εἰς διαιρέσεις ὑδάτων, τὸν διαγαγόντα αὐτοὺς ἐν μέσῳ ὕδατος ὡς ἵππον ἐν πεδίῳ, τὸν τοὺς ἐχθροὺς αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπιβούλους βυθίσαντα, τὸν εἰς Μερρὰν τὴν πικρὰν πηγὴν γλυκάναντα, τὸν ἐκ πέτρας ἀκροτόμου καταγαγόντα ὕδωρ εἰς πλησμονὴν αὐτοῖς, τὸν στύλῳ νεφέλης καὶ στύλῳ πυρὸς σκιάζοντα αὐτοῖς διὰ θάλπος ἄμετρον καὶ φωτίζοντα καὶ ὁδηγοῦντα τοὺς οὐκ εἰδότας ὅπου πορευθῶσιν, τὸν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ μαννοδοτήσαντα αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐκ θαλάσσης κρεωδοτήσαντα ὀρτυγομήτραν, τὸν ἐν τῷ ὄρει νομοθετήσαντα αὐτοῖς, οὗ τῆς φωνῆς ἠξιώθησαν ἐπακοῦσαι· τοῦτον ἀπηρνήσαντο εἰπόντες τῷ Ἀαρών· Ποίησον ἡμῖν θεούς, οἱ προπορεύσονται ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐμοσχοποίησαν χωνευτὸν καὶ ἔθυσαν τῷ εἰδώλῳ᾽ διὸ ὀργισθεὶς ὁ θεός, ἅτε ἀχαριστηθεὶς ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν, ἔδησεν αὐτοὺς δεσμοῖς ἀλύτοις, στιβώσει φορτισμοῦ καὶ σκληρότητι κλοιοῦ.

hopote de hoi tou laou toutōn amnēmones hypērxan, kai moschon anti theou theon epekalesanto kai toutǭ tēn aitian tēs ex Aigyptou poreias epegrapsan legontes; Houtoi hoi theoi sou, Israēl, hoi exagagontes se ek gēs Aigyptou, kai dyssebēsantes͵eis homoiōma moschou esthiontos chorton apērnēsanto theon ton dia Mōseōs episkepsamenon autous en tę̄ thlipsei autōn, ton ta sēmeia epi cheiros kai rhabdou poiēsamenon, ton tous Aigyptious dekaplēgǭ pataxanta, ton tēn erythran dielonta thalassan eis diaireseis hydatōn, ton diagagonta autous en mesǭ hydatos hōs hippon en pediǭ, ton tous echthrous autōn kai epiboulous bythisanta, ton eis Merran tēn pikran pēgēn glykananta, ton ek petras akrotomou katagagonta hydōr eis plēsmonēn autois, ton stylǭ nephelēs kai stylǭ pyros skiazonta autois dia thalpos ametron kai phōtizonta kai hodēgounta tous ouk eidotas hopou poreuthōsin, ton ex ouranou mannodotēsanta autois kai ek thalassēs kreōdotēsanta ortygomētran, ton en tǭ orei nomothetēsanta autois, hou tēs phōnēs ēxiōthēsan epakousai; touton apērnēsanto eipontes tǭ Aarōn; Poiēson hēmin theous, hoi proporeusontai hēmōn, kai emoschopoiēsan chōneuton kai ethysan tǭ eidōlǭ᾽ dio orgistheis ho theos, hate acharistētheis hyp᾽ autōn, edēsen autous desmois alytois, stibōsei phortismou kai sklērotēti kloiou.

But when those of the people became forgetful of these things, and called on a calf as god instead of God, and ascribed to it the cause of their journey out of Egypt, saying, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,” and, having acted impiously “into the likeness of a calf that eats grass,” denied God, who had visited them through Moses in their affliction, who had done the signs by hand and rod, who struck the Egyptians with ten plagues, who divided the Red Sea into divisions of waters, who led them through the midst of the water “like a horse on a plain,” who sank their enemies and those who plotted against them, who at Marah sweetened the bitter spring, who brought down water from the sheer rock to satisfy them, who with a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire shaded them because of the excessive heat and gave light and guidance to those who did not know where to go, who gave them manna from heaven and gave them meat from the sea, the quail, who gave them laws on the mountain, whose voice they were counted worthy to hear: him they denied, saying to Aaron, “Make us gods who will go before us,” and they made a molten calf and sacrificed to the idol. Therefore God was angry, as having been treated with ingratitude by them, and bound them with bonds that could not be loosed, with a crushing burden and the hardness of a collar.

Exod 32:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 106:20 (105:20 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 3:16 (echo, low confidence) · Exod 14:21–28 (allusion, high confidence) · Isa 63:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 15:23–25 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 17:6 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 13:21 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 16:4 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 16:13 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 20:18–19 (allusion, medium confidence) · Exod 32:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 32:6 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: When Israel forgot its Deliverer and made the golden calf, God bound it with the burden of the ritual law.

Exod 32:1–8; Ps 106:20 (105:20 LXX); Exod 3:16; 7–12; 14:21–28; Isa 63:13; Exod 15:23–25; 17:6; 13:21; 16:4, 13; 19–20.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.20.6 (Funk 1:351–353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-20-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.20.7Funk 1:353

καὶ οὐκέτι εἶπεν. , Ἐὰν δὲ ποιῇς, ἀλλά Ποίησον θυσιαστήριον καὶ θῦε διηνεκῶς, ἐπιλήσμων γὰρ τυγχάνεις καὶ ἀχάριστος· ὁλοκαύτει οὖν συνεχῶς, ἵν᾽ ὑπομιμνήσκῃ μου·

kai ouketi eipen. , Ean de poię̄s, alla Poiēson thysiastērion kai thye diēnekōs, epilēsmōn gar tynchaneis kai acharistos; holokautei oun synechōs, hin᾽ hypomimnēskę̄ mou;

And he no longer said, “And if you make one,” but “Make an altar and sacrifice continually”; for you are forgetful and ungrateful; burn whole offerings continually, then, so that you may be reminded of me.

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Summary: After the calf, sacrifice was commanded to keep Israel mindful of God.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ῇς“, → ῇς, ; , , Ποίησον → Ποίησον; ῶς“, → ῶς, ; ς" → ς· ; iv ὑπομιμνήσκῃ uov: → ἵν᾽ ὑπομιμνήσκῃ μου·.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.20.7 (Funk 1:353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-20-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.20.8Funk 1:353

ἐπειδὴ γὰρ τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ κακῶς ἀπεχρήσω, ἀνάγκην ἐπιτίθημί σοι λοιπόν, καὶ βρωμάτων ἀφιστῶ τοιῶνδε καὶ ζώων σοι διαφορὰς καθαρῶν καὶ ἀκαθάρτων διαστέλλομαι, καίτοι παντὸς ζῴου καλοῦ τυγχάνοντος ἅτε ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ γενομένου·

epeidē gar tę̄ exousią kakōs apechrēsō, anankēn epitithēmi soi loipon, kai brōmatōn aphistō toiōnde kai zōōn soi diaphoras katharōn kai akathartōn diastellomai, kaitoi pantos zǭou kalou tynchanontos hate hyp᾽ emou genomenou;

For since you misused your freedom, I now lay necessity upon you, and keep you from certain foods, and distinguish for you differences of animals, clean and unclean, although every animal is good, as having been made by me;

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Summary: Food laws were imposed because Israel misused its freedom, though every creature is good.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ζοόου → ζῴου; ου" → ου·.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.20.8 (Funk 1:353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-20-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.20.9Funk 1:353

καὶ ἀφορισμοὺς τοιούσδε σοι προστάσσω, καθαρισμούς, συνεχῆ βαπτίσματα, ῥαντισμούς, ἁγνείας τοιάσδε, ἀργίας διαφόρους᾽ καὶ τούτων ἐφ᾽ ἑκάστῳ, ἐὰν παρακούσῃς, τιμωρίαν ὁρίζω ὡς οἰκέτῃ ἀπειθεῖ, ὅπως πιεζόμενος καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ κλοιοῦ ἀγχόμενος τῆς πολυθέου πλάνης ἐκστῆς, καὶ παρεὶς τὸ οὕτοι οἱ θεοί σου, Ἰσραήλ ὑπομνησθῆς τὸ ἄκουε, Ἰσραήλ, κύριος, ὃ θεός σου κύριος εἷς ἐστιν, καὶ ἀναδράμῃς ἐπ᾽ ἐκεῖνον τὸν νόμον τὸν ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ τῇ φύσει καταβληθέντα πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις· ἕνα μόνον ὑπάρχειν θεὸν ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς, καὶ τοῦτον ἀγαπᾶν ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ἰσχύος καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς διανοίας, καὶ πλὴν αὐτοῦ μὴ φοβεῖσθαι ἄλλον, μήτε ὄνομα θεῶν ἑτέρων ἐπὶ διανοίας λαμβάνειν μήτε προφέρειν γλώσσῃ διὰ στόματος.

kai aphorismous toiousde soi prostassō, katharismous, synechē baptismata, rhantismous, hagneias toiasde, argias diaphorous᾽ kai toutōn eph᾽ hekastǭ, ean parakousę̄s, timōrian horizō hōs oiketę̄ apeithei, hopōs piezomenos kai hypo tou kloiou anchomenos tēs polytheou planēs ekstēs, kai pareis to houtoi hoi theoi sou, Israēl hypomnēsthēs to akoue, Israēl, kyrios, ho theos sou kyrios heis estin, kai anadramę̄s ep᾽ ekeinon ton nomon ton hyp᾽ emou tę̄ physei katablēthenta pasin anthrōpois; hena monon hyparchein theon en ouranǭ kai epi gēs, kai touton agapan ex holēs tēs kardias kai ex holēs tēs ischyos kai ex holēs tēs dianoias, kai plēn autou mē phobeisthai allon, mēte onoma theōn heterōn epi dianoias lambanein mēte propherein glōssę̄ dia stomatos.

and I command for you such separations, purifications, continual washings, sprinklings, such purities, various rests. [10] And for each of these, if you disobey, I appoint a punishment, as for a disobedient household slave, so that, pressed and choked by the collar, you may depart from the error of many gods, and, leaving off “These are your gods, O Israel,” you may remember “Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one Lord,” and run back to that law which was laid down by me in nature for all men: that there is only one God in heaven and on earth, and that one must “love him with all the heart and with all the strength and with all the mind,” and fear no other besides him, nor take the name of other gods into the mind nor utter it with the tongue through the mouth.

Exod 32:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 6:4–5 (quotation, high confidence) · Mark 12:30 (allusion, medium confidence) · Exod 23:13 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: The ritual laws and their penalties were meant to bring Israel back from polytheism to the one God of the natural law.

The section number 10 was lost in the OCR; “[10]” marks where it begins.
Exod 32:4; Deut 6:4–5; Mark 12:30; Exod 23:13.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: section number (10) removed): καθαοισμούς → καθαρισμούς; IO. καὶ → καὶ; ἑχάστῳ → ἑκάστῳ; παρακχούσῃς → παρακούσῃς; ,,ο → ο; ᾿Ισραήλ““ → Ἰσραήλ; ,,ἄ → ἄ; “, xoi → , καὶ; ς" → ς· ; ,,ἀ → ἀ; ς“, → ς,; αὑτοῦ → αὐτοῦ.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.20.9 (Funk 1:353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-20-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.20.11Funk 1:353–355

διὰ γὰρ τὴν σκληροκαρδίαν αὐτῶν ἐπέδησεν αὐτούς, ἵνα διὰ τοῦ θύειν καὶ ἀργεῖν καὶ ἁγνίζεσθαι καὶ τὰ τοιάδε παρατηρεῖσθαι εἰς ἔννοιαν ἔλθωσιν τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ταῦτα διαταξαμένου αὐτοῖς.

dia gar tēn sklērokardian autōn epedēsen autous, hina dia tou thyein kai argein kai hagnizesthai kai ta toiade paratēreisthai eis ennoian elthōsin tou theou tou tauta diataxamenou autois.

For because of their hardness of heart he bound them, so that by sacrificing and resting and purifying themselves and observing such things they might come to the thought of God, who ordained these things for them.

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Summary: The ritual law was given for Israel's hardness of heart.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): σκληροχαρδίαν → σκληροκαρδίαν.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.20.11 (Funk 1:353–355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-20-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 21

6.21.1Funk 1:355

Ὑμῶν δὲ τῶν πιστευσάντων εἰς τὸν ἕνα θεὸν οὐκ ἀπὸ ἀνάγκης, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ γνώμης ὑγιοῦς ὑπακουσάντων τῷ καλέσαντι· Μακάριοι οἱ ὀφθαλμοί, ὅτι βλέπουσιν, καὶ τὰ ὦτα ὑμῶν, ὅτι ἀκούουσιν ἀνείθητε γὰρ τῶν δεσμῶν καὶ ἠλευθερώθητε δουλείας.

Hymōn de tōn pisteusantōn eis ton hena theon ouk apo anankēs, alla apo gnōmēs hygious hypakousantōn tǭ kalesanti; Makarioi hoi ophthalmoi, hoti blepousin, kai ta ōta hymōn, hoti akouousin aneithēte gar tōn desmōn kai ēleutherōthēte douleias.

But as for you, who have believed in the one God, not from necessity but from a sound mind, obeying him who called you: “Blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear”; for you have been released from the bonds and set free from slavery.

Matt 13:16 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Believers, who obey freely, are released from the bonds of the ritual law.

Quotation: Matt 13:16.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.21.1 (Funk 1:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-21-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.21.2Funk 1:355

Οὐκέτι γὰρ φησίν, λέγω ὑμᾶς δούλους, ἀλλὰ φίλους, ὅτι πάντα, ἃ ἤκουσα παρὰ τοῦ πατρός μου, ἐγνώρισα ὑμῖν: ἐκείνοις γὰρ μὴ θελήσασιν ἰδεῖν μήτε ἀκοῦσαι, οὐ στερήσει μορίων, ἀλλὰ κακίας ὑπερβολῇ, ἔδωκα προστάγματα οὐ καλὰ καὶ δικαιώματα, ἐν οἷς οὐ ζήσονται ἐν αὐτοῖς οὐ καλὰ δὲ τῷ σκοπῷ αὐτῶν, ἐπειδὴ καὶ οἱ καυτῆρες καὶ τὸ ξίφος καὶ τὰ φάρμακα ἐχθρὰ τοῖς οὐχ ὑγιαίνουσιν, ἀφύλακτα δὲ διὰ τὴν αὐτῶν παρακοήν, ὅθεν καὶ θάνατον αὐτοῖς ἐπάγει μὴ φυλασσόμενα.

Ouketi gar phēsin, legō hymas doulous, alla philous, hoti panta, ha ēkousa para tou patros mou, egnōrisa hymin: ekeinois gar mē thelēsasin idein mēte akousai, ou sterēsei moriōn, alla kakias hyperbolę̄, edōka prostagmata ou kala kai dikaiōmata, en hois ou zēsontai en autois ou kala de tǭ skopǭ autōn, epeidē kai hoi kautēres kai to xiphos kai ta pharmaka echthra tois ouch hygiainousin, aphylakta de dia tēn autōn parakoēn, hothen kai thanaton autois epagei mē phylassomena.

“For no longer,” he says, “do I call you slaves, but friends, because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you.” For to them, who would neither see nor hear, not through lack of the organs but through excess of wickedness, “I gave ordinances that were not good, and judgments by which they will not live”; not good, that is, in their view, since cauteries and the knife and medicines are hostile to those who are not healthy; and unkept because of their disobedience, so that, not being kept, they also bring death on them.

John 15:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Ezek 20:25 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ's friends are free, while the ordinances given to the disobedient seemed harsh to them and brought death.

Quotations: John 15:15; Ezek 20:25.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,,Οὐχέτι“ → Οὐκέτι; ,λ → λ; “: ἐχείνοις → : ἐκείνοις; ,ἔ → ἔ; δικαιαύματα → δικαιώματα; ς“ → ς ; σχοπῷ → σκοπῷ; ὁὲ → δὲ .

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.21.2 (Funk 1:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-21-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 22

6.22.1Funk 1:355

Ὑμεῖς οὖν μακάριοι, οἱ λυθέντες τῆς κατάρας. Χριστὸς γὰρ παραγενόμενος ὃ τοῦ θεοῦ υἱὸς τὸν νόμον κυρώσας ἐπλήρωσεν, τὰ ἐπείσακτα περιεῖλεν, εἰ καὶ μὴ πάντα, ἀλλά γε τὰ βαρύτερα, τὸν μὲν βεβαιώσας, τὰ δὲ παύσας· καὶ τὸ αὐτεξούσιον τῶν ἀνθρώπων πάλιν ἀφῆκεν ἐλεύθερον, οὐ προσκαίρῳ θανάτῳ δικάζων, ἀλλ᾽ ἐν ἑτέρᾳ καταστάσει λογοθετῶν αὐτό. διὸ λέγει· Εἰ τις θέλει ὀπίσω μου ἐλθεῖν, ἐρχέσθω, καὶ πάλιν. , Μὴ καὶ ὑμεῖς θέλετε ὑπάγειν;

Hymeis oun makarioi, hoi lythentes tēs kataras. Christos gar paragenomenos ho tou theou huios ton nomon kyrōsas eplērōsen, ta epeisakta perieilen, ei kai mē panta, alla ge ta barytera, ton men bebaiōsas, ta de pausas; kai to autexousion tōn anthrōpōn palin aphēken eleutheron, ou proskairǭ thanatǭ dikazōn, all᾽ en heterą katastasei logothetōn auto. dio legei; Ei tis thelei opisō mou elthein, erchesthō, kai palin. , Mē kai hymeis thelete hypagein?

You, then, are blessed, who have been loosed from the curse. For Christ, the Son of God, when he came, confirmed and fulfilled the law, and took away the things that had been added, if not all, at least the heavier ones, establishing the one and ending the others; and he again set free the free will of men, not judging it by a temporary death, but holding it to account in another state. Therefore he says, “If anyone wishes to come after me, let him come,” and again, “Do you also wish to go away?”

Gal 3:13 (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 16:24 (quotation, medium confidence) · John 6:67 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ confirmed the law, removed the heavier added ordinances, and set free the will.

Gal 3:13; Matt 16:24; John 6:67.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ἐπλήρώσεν, rà → ἐπλήρωσεν, τὰ; ς" → ς· ; " ,El → · Εἰ; égyéoto → ἐρχέσθω; ν“; → ν;.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.22.1 (Funk 1:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-22-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.22.2Funk 1:355

ἤδη δὲ καὶ πρὸ τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ παρῃτεῖτο τὰς τοῦ λαοῦ θυσίας πολλάκις εἰς αὐτὸν ἐξαμαρτόντος καὶ οἰομένου διὰ θυσιῶν, ἀλλ᾽ οὐ διὰ μετανοίας αὐτὸν ἐξευμενίζεσθαι. λέγει γὰρ οὕτως: Ἵνα τί μοι λίβανον ἐκ Σαβᾶ φέρεις καὶ κιννάμωμον ἐκ γῆς μακρόθεν; τὰ ὁλοκαυτώματα ὑμῶν οὐκ ἔστιν δεκτὰ καὶ αἱ θυσίαι ὑμῶν οὐχ ἥδυνάν μοι, καὶ ἑξῆς· Τὰ ὁλοκαυτώματα ὑμῶν συναγάγετε μετὰ τῶν θυσιῶν ὑμῶν καὶ φάγετε κρέα, ὅτι οὐκ ἐνετειλάμην ὑμῖν, ἡνίκα ἐξήγαγον ὑμᾶς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, περὶ ὁλοκαυτωμάτων καὶ θυσιῶν.

ēdē de kai pro tēs parousias autou parę̄teito tas tou laou thysias pollakis eis auton examartontos kai oiomenou dia thysiōn, all᾽ ou dia metanoias auton exeumenizesthai. legei gar houtōs: Hina ti moi libanon ek Saba phereis kai kinnamōmon ek gēs makrothen? ta holokautōmata hymōn ouk estin dekta kai hai thysiai hymōn ouch hēdynan moi, kai hexēs; Ta holokautōmata hymōn synagagete meta tōn thysiōn hymōn kai phagete krea, hoti ouk eneteilamēn hymin, hēnika exēgagon hymas ek gēs Aigyptou, peri holokautōmatōn kai thysiōn.

And even before his coming he refused the sacrifices of the people, since they often sinned against him and thought to propitiate him by sacrifices and not by repentance. For he says thus: “Why do you bring me frankincense from Sheba and cinnamon from a distant land? Your whole burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not pleased me”; and further, “Gather your whole burnt offerings with your sacrifices and eat meat; for I did not command you, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Jer 6:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 7:21–22 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Even before Christ, God refused sacrifices offered without repentance.

Quotations: Jer 6:20; 7:21–22.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.22.2 (Funk 1:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-22-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.22.3Funk 1:355–357

καὶ διὰ Ἡσαΐου λέγει· Τί μοι πλῆθος τῶν θυσιῶν ὑμῶν; λέγει κύριος· πλήρης εἰμὶ ὁλοκαυτωμάτων κριῶν, καὶ στέαρ ἀρνῶν καὶ αἷμα ταύρων καὶ τράγων οὐ βούλομαι, οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἔρχησθε ὀφθῆναί μοι· τίς γὰρ ἐξεζήτησεν ταῦτα ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν ὑμῶν; πατεῖν τὴν αὐλήν μου οὐ προσθήσεσθε ἔτι᾽ ἐὰν φέρητέ μοι σεμίδαλιν, μάταιον, θυμίαμα βδέλυγμά μοί ἔστιν, τὰς νεομηνίας ὑμῶν καὶ τὰ σάββατα ὑμῶν καὶ ἡμέραν μεγάλην οὐκ ἀνέχομαι, νηστείαν καὶ ἀργίαν καὶ τὰς ἑορτὰς ὑμῶν μισεῖ ἡ ψυχή μου ἐγενήθητέ μοι εἰς πλησμονήν.

kai dia Hēsaïou legei; Ti moi plēthos tōn thysiōn hymōn? legei kyrios; plērēs eimi holokautōmatōn kriōn, kai stear arnōn kai haima taurōn kai tragōn ou boulomai, oud᾽ an erchēsthe ophthēnai moi; tis gar exezētēsen tauta ek tōn cheirōn hymōn? patein tēn aulēn mou ou prosthēsesthe eti᾽ ean pherēte moi semidalin, mataion, thymiama bdelygma moi estin, tas neomēnias hymōn kai ta sabbata hymōn kai hēmeran megalēn ouk anechomai, nēsteian kai argian kai tas heortas hymōn misei hē psychē mou egenēthēte moi eis plēsmonēn.

And through Isaiah he says: “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord. I am full of whole burnt offerings of rams, and I do not want the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and goats, nor should you come to appear before me; for who required these things from your hands? You shall no longer tread my court. If you bring me fine flour, it is vain; incense is an abomination to me; your new moons and your Sabbaths and the great day I cannot endure; your fasting and rest and your feasts my soul hates; you have become a surfeit to me.”

Isa 1:11–14 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Isaiah's rejection of empty sacrifices and feasts is quoted.

Quotation: Isa 1:11–14 (LXX).

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.22.3 (Funk 1:355–357; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-22-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.22.4Funk 1:357

καὶ διʼ ἑτέρου λέγει Ἀπόστησον ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ ἦχον ᾠδῶν σου, καὶ ψαλμὸν ὀργάνων σου οὐκ ἀκούσομαι. καὶ τῷ Σαοὺλ ὃ Σαμουὴλ λέγει θῦσαι νενομικότι Ἀγαθὴ ἀκοὴ ὑπὲρ θυσίαν, καὶ ἀκρόαμα ὑπὲρ στέαρ κριῶν ἰδοὺ γὰρ οὐ θέλει κύριος θυσίαν ὡς τὸ εἰσακούειν αὐτοῦ. καὶ διὰ τοῦ Δαυὶδ λέγει᾽Οὐ δέξομαι ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου σου μόσχους, οὐδὲ ἐκ τῶν ποιμνίων σου χιμάρους· ἐὰν πεινάσω, οὐ μή σοι εἴπω ἐμὴ γάρ ἐστιν ἡ οἰκουμένη καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆς μὴ φάγομαι κρέα ταύρων ἢ αἷμα τράγων πίομαι; θῦσον τῷ θεῷ θυσίαν αἰνέσεως, καὶ ἀπόδος τῷ ὑψίστῳ τὰς εὐχάς σου. καὶ ἐν πάσαις δὲ ταῖς γραφαῖς ὁμοίως αὐτῶν τὰς θυσίας ἀπαναίνεται διὰ τὸ ἐξαμαρτεῖν αὐτοὺς εἰς αὐτόν᾽ Θυσίαι γὰρ ἀσεβῶν βδέλυγμα παρὰ κυρίῳ, καὶ γὰρ παρανόμως προσφέρουσιν αὐτάς, καὶ πάλιν, Αἱ θυσίαι αὐτῶν ὡς ἄρτος πένθους αὐτοῖς, πάντες οἱ ἐσθίοντες αὐτὰς μολυνθήσονται.

kai diʼ heterou legei Apostēson ap᾿ emou ēchon ǭdōn sou, kai psalmon organōn sou ouk akousomai. kai tǭ Saoul ho Samouēl legei thysai nenomikoti Agathē akoē hyper thysian, kai akroama hyper stear kriōn idou gar ou thelei kyrios thysian hōs to eisakouein autou. kai dia tou Dauid legei᾽Ou dexomai ek tou oikou sou moschous, oude ek tōn poimniōn sou chimarous; ean peinasō, ou mē soi eipō emē gar estin hē oikoumenē kai to plērōma autēs mē phagomai krea taurōn ē haima tragōn piomai? thyson tǭ theǭ thysian aineseōs, kai apodos tǭ hypsistǭ tas euchas sou. kai en pasais de tais graphais homoiōs autōn tas thysias apanainetai dia to examartein autous eis auton᾽ Thysiai gar asebōn bdelygma para kyriǭ, kai gar paranomōs prospherousin autas, kai palin, Hai thysiai autōn hōs artos penthous autois, pantes hoi esthiontes autas molynthēsontai.

And through another he says, “Take away from me the sound of your songs, and I will not hear the psalm of your instruments.” And Samuel says to Saul, who had thought fit to sacrifice, “Obedience is good beyond sacrifice, and hearkening beyond the fat of rams”; for behold, “the Lord does not desire sacrifice as much as obedience to him.” And through David he says, “I will not take calves from your house, nor goats from your flocks; if I am hungry, I will not tell you; for the world is mine and its fullness. Shall I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? Sacrifice to God a sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.” And in all the Scriptures likewise he rejects their sacrifices, because they sinned against him; for “the sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord, for they offer them unlawfully,” and again, “Their sacrifices are to them like bread of mourning; all who eat them will be defiled.”

Amos 5:23 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Sam 15:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 50:9 (49:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 50:12–14 (49:12-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Prov 21:27 (quotation, high confidence) · Hos 9:4 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The prophets, Samuel and David all say God prefers obedience to sacrifice.

Quotations: Amos 5:23; 1 Sam 15:22; Ps 50:9, 12–14 (49:9, 12–14 LXX); Prov 21:27 (LXX); Hos 9:4.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.22.4 (Funk 1:357; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-22-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.22.5Funk 1:357–359

εἰ οὖν καὶ πρὸ τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ θυσίας καρδίαν καθαρὰν ἐπεζήτει καὶ πνεῦμα συντετριμμένον, πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἐλθὼν ἔπαυσεν ταύτας, φαμὲν δὴ τὰς δι᾽ αἱμάτων. ἔπαυσε δὲ αὐτὰς διὰ τοῦ πρότερον πληρῶσαι· καὶ γὰρ καὶ περιετμήθη καὶ ἐρραντίσθη, θυσίας τε προσήνεγκεν καὶ ὁλοκαυτώσεις καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐθισμοῖς ἐχρήσατο, καὶ ἐγένετο ὃ νομοθέτης αὐτὸς πλήρωμα τοῦ νόμου, οὐκ ἀνελὼν τὸν φυσικὸν νόμον, ἀλλὰ παύσας τὰ διὰ τῆς δευτερώσεως ἐπείσακτα, εἰ καὶ μὴ πάντα.

ei oun kai pro tēs parousias autou hyper thysias kardian katharan epezētei kai pneuma syntetrimmenon, pollǭ mallon elthōn epausen tautas, phamen dē tas di᾽ haimatōn. epause de autas dia tou proteron plērōsai; kai gar kai perietmēthē kai errantisthē, thysias te prosēnenken kai holokautōseis kai tois allois ethismois echrēsato, kai egeneto ho nomothetēs autos plērōma tou nomou, ouk anelōn ton physikon nomon, alla pausas ta dia tēs deuterōseōs epeisakta, ei kai mē panta.

If, then, even before his coming he sought, instead of sacrifice, “a clean heart and a contrite spirit,” much more did he, when he came, put an end to these, I mean the sacrifices by blood. And he ended them by first fulfilling them; for he was both circumcised and sprinkled, and offered sacrifices and whole burnt offerings, and observed the other customs; and the lawgiver himself became the fulfillment of the law, not taking away the natural law, but ending the things added through the second legislation, if not all of them.

Ps 51:10 (50:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 51:17 (50:19 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 2:21–24 (allusion, medium confidence) · Rom 10:4 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Christ ended blood sacrifices by first fulfilling the law himself.

“The second legislation” (δευτέρωσις) is the work's name for the ritual laws added after the golden calf. Ps 51:10, 17 (50:12, 19 LXX); Luke 2:21–24; Rom 10:4.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.22.5 (Funk 1:357–359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-22-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 23

6.23.1Funk 1:359

Τόν τε γὰρ φυσικὸν νόμον οὐκ ἀνεῖλεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐβεβαίωσεν. ὁ γὰρ εἰρηκὼς ἐν τῷ Νόμῳ· Κύριος ὃ θεός σου κύριος εἷς ἐστιν, ὃ αὐτὸς ἐν τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ λέγει, ἵνα γινώσκωσίν σε τὸν μόνον ἀληθινὸν θεόν, καὶ ὁ εἰρηκώς· Ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν, ἐν τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ λέγει ἀνανεούμενος· Ἐντολὴν καινὴν δίδωμι ὑμῖν, ἵνα ἀγαπᾶτε ἀλλήλους.

Ton te gar physikon nomon ouk aneilen, all᾽ ebebaiōsen. ho gar eirēkōs en tǭ Nomǭ; Kyrios ho theos sou kyrios heis estin, ho autos en tǭ Euangeliǭ legei, hina ginōskōsin se ton monon alēthinon theon, kai ho eirēkōs; Agapēseis ton plēsion sou hōs seauton, en tǭ Euangeliǭ legei ananeoumenos; Entolēn kainēn didōmi hymin, hina agapate allēlous.

For he did not take away the natural law, but confirmed it. For he who said in the Law, “The Lord your God is one Lord,” the same says in the Gospel, “that they may know you, the only true God”; and he who said, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” says in the Gospel, renewing it, “A new commandment I give you, that you love one another.”

Deut 6:4 (quotation, high confidence) · John 17:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Lev 19:18 (quotation, high confidence) · John 13:34 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ confirmed the natural law of the one God and of love.

The OCR mixed the lines of the second half of this sentence; their order is restored by a logged correction. Quotations: Deut 6:4; John 17:3; Lev 19:18; John 13:34.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.23.1 (Funk 1:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-23-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.23.2Funk 1:359

ὃ φόνον τότε ἀπαγορεύσας, νῦν καὶ εἰκαίαν ὀργήν, ὃ μοιχείαν, νῦν καὶ ἐπιθυμίαν ἔκνομον· ὃ λῃστείαν, νῦν ἐμακάρισεν μᾶλλον τὸν ἐξ οἰκείων πόνων ἐπιχορηγοῦντα τοῖς δεομένοις, ὃ μῖσος, νῦν καὶ πρὸς ἐχθροὺς ἀγάπην, ὃ ἄμυναν, νῦν ἀνεξικακίαν, οὐκ ἀδίκου τῆς δικαίας ἀμύνης οὔσης, ἀλλὰ κρείττονος τῆς ἀνεξικακίας· οὔτε δὲ τὰ φυσικὰ πάθη ἐκκόπτειν ἐνομοθέτησεν, ἀλλὰ τὴν τούτων ἀμετρίαν.

ho phonon tote apagoreusas, nyn kai eikaian orgēn, ho moicheian, nyn kai epithymian eknomon; ho lę̄steian, nyn emakarisen mallon ton ex oikeiōn ponōn epichorēgounta tois deomenois, ho misos, nyn kai pros echthrous agapēn, ho amynan, nyn anexikakian, ouk adikou tēs dikaias amynēs ousēs, alla kreittonos tēs anexikakias; oute de ta physika pathē ekkoptein enomothetēsen, alla tēn toutōn ametrian.

He who then forbade murder now forbids even causeless anger; he who forbade adultery, now even lawless desire; he who forbade robbery now rather pronounces blessed him who supplies the needy from his own labors; he who forbade hatred, now commands love even toward enemies; he who forbade vengeance, now forbearance; not that just vengeance is unjust, but that forbearance is better. Nor did he legislate to cut out the natural passions, but their excess.

Matt 5:21–22 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 5:27–28 (allusion, high confidence) · Eph 4:28 (allusion, medium confidence) · Acts 20:35 (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 5:43–44 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 5:38–39 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ deepened the commandments against murder, adultery, theft, hatred and vengeance.

Matt 5:21–22, 27–28; Eph 4:28; Acts 20:35; Matt 5:43–44, 38–39.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ν" → ν· ; ς" → ς· ; ἐχκόπτειν → ἐκκόπτειν.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.23.2 (Funk 1:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-23-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.23.3Funk 1:359–361

ὃ γονεῖς προστάξας τιμᾶν αὐτὸς τούτοις ὑπετάγη, ὁ σαββατίζειν δὲ ἀργίας νομοθετήσας διὰ τὴν τῶν νόμων μελέτην νῦν καθʼ ἡμέραν ἐκέλευσεν ἡμᾶς, ἀναλογιζομένους δημιουργίας καὶ προνοίας νόμον, εὐχαριστεῖν τῷ θεῷ.

ho goneis prostaxas timan autos toutois hypetagē, ho sabbatizein de argias nomothetēsas dia tēn tōn nomōn meletēn nyn kathʼ hēmeran ekeleusen hēmas, analogizomenous dēmiourgias kai pronoias nomon, eucharistein tǭ theǭ.

He who commanded to honor parents was himself subject to them; and he who legislated keeping the Sabbath by rest for the sake of meditation on the laws has now commanded us every day to consider the law of creation and of providence and to give thanks to God.

Luke 2:51 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 20:8–12 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Christ obeyed his parents and turned the Sabbath rest into daily thanksgiving.

Luke 2:51; Exod 20:8–12.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): »ῦν → νῦν.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.23.3 (Funk 1:359–361; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-23-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.23.4Funk 1:361

τὴν περιτομὴν ἔπαυσεν, εἰς ἑαυτὸν πληρώσας· αὐτὸς γὰρ ἦν ᾧ ἀπέκειτο, ἡ προσδοκία τῶν ἐθνῶν. ὁ εὐορκεῖν νομοθετήσας καὶ τὸ ἐπιορκεῖν ἀπαγορεύσας τὸ μηδ᾽ ὀμνῦναι παρήγγειλεν.

tēn peritomēn epausen, eis heauton plērōsas; autos gar ēn hǭ apekeito, hē prosdokia tōn ethnōn. ho euorkein nomothetēsas kai to epiorkein apagoreusas to mēd᾽ omnynai parēngeilen.

He ended circumcision, having fulfilled it in himself; for he was the one “for whom it was reserved, the expectation of the nations.” He who legislated to swear truly and forbade perjury has commanded “not to swear at all.”

Gen 49:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:33–34 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ fulfilled and ended circumcision and forbade oaths.

Gen 49:10 (LXX); Matt 5:33–34.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: repeated word): τὴν τὴν → τὴν; ς" → ς· ; ο,,(ἡ → ᾧ; ν“. → ν.; ,,μ → μ; ι““ → ι .

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.23.4 (Funk 1:361; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-23-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.23.5Funk 1:361–363

τὸ βάπτισμα, τὴν θυσίαν, τὴν ἱερωσύνην, τὴν τοπικὴν λατρείαν ἑτέρως μετευυι ἀντὶ μὲν καθημερινοῦ ἓν μόνον δοὺς βάπτισμα τὸ εἰς τὸν αὐτοῦ θάνατον, ἀντὶ δὲ μιᾶς φυλῆς ἀφ ἑκάστου ἔθνους προστάξας τοὺς ἀρίστους εἰς ἱερωσύνην προχειρίζεσθαι, καὶ οὐ τὰ σώματα μωμοσκοπεῖσθαι, ἀλλὰ θρησκείαν καὶ βίους· ἀντὶ θυσίας τῆς δι᾽ αἱμάτων τὴν λογικὴν καὶ ἀναίμακτον καὶ τὴν μυστικήν, ἥτις εἰς τὸν θάνατον τοῦ κυρίου συμβόλων χάριν ἐπιτελεῖται, τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ αἵματος· ἀντὶ δὲ τοπικῆς λατρείας ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν ἡλίου μέχρι δυσμῶν ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ τῆς δεσποτείας αὐτοῦ προσέταξεν δοξάζεσθαι αὐτὸν.

to baptisma, tēn thysian, tēn hierōsynēn, tēn topikēn latreian heterōs meteuui anti men kathēmerinou hen monon dous baptisma to eis ton autou thanaton, anti de mias phylēs aph hekastou ethnous prostaxas tous aristous eis hierōsynēn procheirizesthai, kai ou ta sōmata mōmoskopeisthai, alla thrēskeian kai bious; anti thysias tēs di᾽ haimatōn tēn logikēn kai anaimakton kai tēn mystikēn, hētis eis ton thanaton tou kyriou symbolōn charin epiteleitai, tou sōmatos autou kai tou haimatos; anti de topikēs latreias apo anatolōn hēliou mechri dysmōn en panti topǭ tēs despoteias autou prosetaxen doxazesthai auton.

Baptism, sacrifice, priesthood and local worship he changed in different ways: instead of daily baptism he gave only one, that into his death; instead of one tribe, he commanded that the best from every nation be appointed to the priesthood, and that not their bodies be inspected for blemishes, but their religion and lives; instead of the sacrifice through blood, the rational and bloodless and mystical sacrifice, which is performed into the death of the Lord by way of symbols, of his body and blood; and instead of local worship, he commanded that he be glorified “from the rising of the sun to its setting in every place” of his dominion.

Rom 6:3 (allusion, medium confidence) · Lev 21:17–23 (allusion, medium confidence) · Rom 12:1 (echo, low confidence) · Mal 1:11 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ replaced daily washings with one baptism, the tribe of Levi with the best of every nation, blood sacrifice with the bloodless Eucharist, and worship in one place with worship everywhere.

The verb rendered “changed” is garbled in the scan (μετευυι); translated by sense. The Eucharist is called “rational, bloodless and mystical,” performed “by way of symbols” of the body and blood. Rom 6:3; Lev 21:17–23; Rom 12:1; quotation: Mal 1:11.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: repeated word): ἢ ἕν → ἓν; μομοθποπεῖσθιαι → μωμοσκοπεῖσθαι; xoi → καὶ; υς" ἀ → υς· ἀ; δι᾿ δι΄ αἱμάτων → δι᾽ αἱμάτων; θάνατον» → θάνατον; ος" ἀ → ος· ἀ; »ἀ → ἀ; ῳ“ → ῳ .

Topics: Eucharist, Baptism, Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.23.5 (Funk 1:361–363; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-23-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.23.6Funk 1:363

οὐ νόμον οὖν περιεῖλεν ἀφ ἡμῶν, ἀλλὰ δεσμά· περὶ γὰρ τοῦ νόμου καὶ Μωσῆς λέγει· Μελετήσεις τὸ ῥῆμα, ὃ ἐγώ σοι ἐντέλλομαι, καθήμενος ἐν οἴκῳ καὶ ἀνιστάμενος καὶ περιπατῶν ἐν ὁδῷ, καὶ ὁ Δαυὶδ λέγει· Ἐν τῷ νόμῳ κυρίου τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ αὐτοῦ μελετήσει ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτός.

ou nomon oun perieilen aph hēmōn, alla desma; peri gar tou nomou kai Mōsēs legei; Meletēseis to rhēma, ho egō soi entellomai, kathēmenos en oikǭ kai anistamenos kai peripatōn en hodǭ, kai ho Dauid legei; En tǭ nomǭ kyriou to thelēma autou, kai en tǭ nomǭ autou meletēsei hēmeras kai nyktos.

So it was not the law that he took away from us, but the bonds; for concerning the law Moses too says, “You shall meditate on the word which I command you, sitting in the house and rising up and walking on the way”; and David says, “In the law of the Lord is his delight, and in his law he will meditate day and night.”

Deut 6:6–7 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 1:2 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ removed the bonds, not the law, which is to be meditated on always.

Quotations: Deut 6:6–7; Ps 1:2.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ά" → ά· ; " ,, → · ; àv οἴχῳ → ἐν οἴκῳ; ῷ“, → ῷ,; " »Ev → · Ἐν; ς“. → ς..

Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.23.6 (Funk 1:363; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-23-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.23.7Funk 1:363–365

πανταχοῦ γὰρ ἐννόμους ἡμᾶς εἶναι βούλεται, ἀλλ᾽ οὐχὶ παρανόμους, Μακάριοι γάρ, φησίν, οἱ ἄμωμοι ἐν ὁδῷ, οἱ πορευόμενοι ἐν νόμῳ κυρίου· μακάριοι οἱ ἐξερευνῶντες τὰ μαρτύρια αὐτοῦ, ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ ἐκζητήσουσιν αὐτόν, καὶ πάλιν. , Μακάριοί ἐσμεν, Ἰσραήλ, ὅτι τὰ ἀρεστὰ τῷ θεῷ ἡμῖν γνωστά ἐστιν, καὶ ὃ κύριός φησιν· Εἰ ταῦτα οἴδατε, μακάριοί ἐστε, ἐὰν ποιῆτε αὐτά.

pantachou gar ennomous hēmas einai bouletai, all᾽ ouchi paranomous, Makarioi gar, phēsin, hoi amōmoi en hodǭ, hoi poreuomenoi en nomǭ kyriou; makarioi hoi exereunōntes ta martyria autou, en holę̄ kardią ekzētēsousin auton, kai palin. , Makarioi esmen, Israēl, hoti ta aresta tǭ theǭ hēmin gnōsta estin, kai ho kyrios phēsin; Ei tauta oidate, makarioi este, ean poiēte auta.

For everywhere he wishes us to be within the law, not outside it. “Blessed,” he says, “are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord; blessed are those who search out his testimonies; with a whole heart they will seek him”; and again, “Blessed are we, O Israel, because what is pleasing to God is known to us”; and the Lord says, “If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.”

Ps 119:1–2 (118:1-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · John 13:17 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: God wishes his people to live by his law.

Quotations: Ps 119:1–2 (118:1–2 LXX); Bar 4:4; John 13:17.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ς", → ς,; ι“ → ι ; ,ο → ο; oi πορευόμενοι iv → οἱ πορευόμενοι ἐν; υ" → υ· ; iv ὅλῃ → ἐν ὅλῃ; ν", → ν,; ν“, → ν,; quow: ,, El → φησιν· Εἰ; ά“. → ά..

Extrabiblical texts: Bar 4:4 (Baruch [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.23.7 (Funk 1:363–365; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-23-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 24

6.24.1Funk 1:365

Οὐ μόνον δὲ τὸν τῆς δικαιοσύνης νόμον δι᾿ ἡμῶν ἐπιδείκνυσθαι βούλεται, ἀλλὰ καὶ διὰ Ῥωμαίων εὐδόκησεν αὐτὸν φαίνεσθαι καὶ λάμπειν· καὶ γὰρ καὶ οὗτοι πιστεύσαντες ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον καὶ πολυθείας ἀπέστησαν καὶ ἀδικίας, καὶ τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς ἀποδέχονται καὶ τοὺς φαύλους κολάζουσιν.

Ou monon de ton tēs dikaiosynēs nomon di᾿ hēmōn epideiknysthai bouletai, alla kai dia Rhōmaiōn eudokēsen auton phainesthai kai lampein; kai gar kai houtoi pisteusantes epi ton kyrion kai polytheias apestēsan kai adikias, kai tous agathous apodechontai kai tous phaulous kolazousin.

And he wishes the law of righteousness to be shown not only through us; he was pleased that it should appear and shine through the Romans too. For they too, believing in the Lord, have departed from polytheism and injustice, and they approve the good and punish the wicked.

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Summary: The law of righteousness shines also through the believing Romans.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ἐπιδείχνυσθαι → ἐπιδείκνυσθαι; ν" → ν· .

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.24.1 (Funk 1:365; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-24-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.24.2Funk 1:365

Ἰουδαίους δὲ ὑποφόρους ἔχουσιν καὶ τοῖς ἰδίοις δικαιώμασιν οὐκ ἐῶσιν κεχρῆσθαι, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἑκούσιον ἐπεσπάσαντο τὴν δουλείαν εἰπόντες· Οὐκ ἔχομεν βασιλέα εἰ μὴ καίσαρα καί· Ἐὰν μὴ ἀποκτείνωμεν, φησίν, τὸν Χριστόν, πάντες εἰς αὐτὸν πιστεύσουσιν, καὶ ἐλεύσονται οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι καὶ ἀροῦσιν ἡμῶν καὶ τὸν τόπον καὶ τὸ ἔθνος.

Ioudaious de hypophorous echousin kai tois idiois dikaiōmasin ouk eōsin kechrēsthai, epeidē kai hekousion epespasanto tēn douleian eipontes; Ouk echomen basilea ei mē kaisara kai; Ean mē apokteinōmen, phēsin, ton Christon, pantes eis auton pisteusousin, kai eleusontai hoi Rhōmaioi kai arousin hēmōn kai ton topon kai to ethnos.

But they hold the Jews as tributaries and do not allow them to use their own ordinances, since they too voluntarily drew slavery on themselves, saying, “We have no king but Caesar,” and, “If we do not kill,” they say, “the Christ, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

John 19:15 (quotation, high confidence) · John 11:48 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The Romans keep the Jews subject, a slavery the Jews chose when they rejected Christ.

Funk prints the older chapter number 25 here; it is removed. Quotations: John 19:15; 11:48 (adapted). The polemic is the work's own.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: older chapter number removed): ἸΙουδαίους → Ἰουδαίους; δικαυώμασιν → δικαιώμασιν; (XXV) → ; " »OUx → · Οὐκ; ",, → ; " ,,Εὰν → · Ἐὰν; ν“, → ν,; ,τ → τ; Ρωμαῖοι → Ῥωμαῖοι; ς". → ς..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.24.2 (Funk 1:365; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-24-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.24.3Funk 1:365

καὶ ἄκοντες προεφήτευσαν᾽· καὶ γὰρ καὶ ἐπίστευσαν εἰς αὐτὸν τὰ ἔθνη, καὶ αὐτοὶ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων τῆς ἐξουσίας περιηρέθησαν καὶ τῆς νομικῆς λατρείας, κεκωλυμένοι δέ εἰσι καὶ ἀναιρεῖν οὓς ἂν θέλωσι καὶ θύειν ὅτε θέλωσιν.

kai akontes proephēteusan᾽; kai gar kai episteusan eis auton ta ethnē, kai autoi hypo Rhōmaiōn tēs exousias periērethēsan kai tēs nomikēs latreias, kekōlymenoi de eisi kai anairein hous an thelōsi kai thyein hote thelōsin.

And unwillingly they prophesied; for the nations did believe in him, and they themselves were deprived by the Romans of their authority and of their legal worship, and they are prevented from killing whom they wish and from sacrificing when they wish.

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Summary: The Jews' words came true: the nations believed and the Jews lost their power and worship.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): " xai → · καὶ; οὺς → οὓς.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.24.3 (Funk 1:365; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-24-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.24.4Funk 1:365

διὸ καὶ εἰσὶν ἐπικατάρατοι, μὴ δυνάμενοι ποιεῖν τὰ διατεταγμένα , Ἐπικατάρατος γάρ, φησίν, ὃς οὐκ ἐμμένει ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς γεγραμμένοις ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ τοῦ νόμου, τοῦ ποιῆσαι αὐτά.

dio kai eisin epikataratoi, mē dynamenoi poiein ta diatetagmena , Epikataratos gar, phēsin, hos ouk emmenei en pasi tois gegrammenois en tǭ bibliǭ tou nomou, tou poiēsai auta.

Therefore they are also accursed, since they cannot do what was ordained; for “cursed,” it says, “is he who does not abide in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Gal 3:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 27:26 (quotation, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Unable to keep the law, the Jews fall under its curse.

Quotation: Gal 3:10 (Deut 27:26). The polemic is the work's own.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ς“ → ς ; ,0c → ὃς; ά“. → ά..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.24.4 (Funk 1:365; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-24-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.24.5Funk 1:365–367

ἀδύνατον δέ ἐστιν ἐν διασπορᾷ μεταξὺ ἐθνῶν ὄντας πάντα τὰ τοῦ νόμου ἐπιτελεῖν αὐτούς· ἀπαγορεύει γὰρ αὐτοῖς ὁ θεῖος Μωσῆς.

adynaton de estin en diasporą metaxy ethnōn ontas panta ta tou nomou epitelein autous; apagoreuei gar autois ho theios Mōsēs.

And it is impossible for them, being in the dispersion among the Gentiles, to perform all the things of the law; for the divine Moses forbids them.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Deut 12:13–14 (allusion, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: In the dispersion the Jews cannot keep the whole law.

The sentence ends abruptly; what Moses forbids (to sacrifice outside the chosen place, Deut 12:13–14) may have been lost in the scan.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ὁέ → δέ ; rà → τὰ ; ς" → ς· .

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.24.5 (Funk 1:365–367; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-24-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 25

6.25.1Funk 1:367

Ἑπόμενοι οὖν Χριστῷ τὰς εὐλογίας κληρονομήσωμεν, νόμῳ καὶ προφήταις διὰ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου στοιχήσωμεν, φύγωμεν τοὺς πολυθέους καὶ τοὺς χριστοκτόνους καὶ προφητοφόντας καὶ τοὺς δυσωνύμους καὶ ἀθέους αἱρεσιώτας.

Hepomenoi oun Christǭ tas eulogias klēronomēsōmen, nomǭ kai prophētais dia tou euangeliou stoichēsōmen, phygōmen tous polytheous kai tous christoktonous kai prophētophontas kai tous dysōnymous kai atheous hairesiōtas.

Following Christ, then, let us inherit the blessings; let us walk in step with the Law and the Prophets through the gospel; let us flee the polytheists and the Christ-killers and prophet-murderers and the infamous and godless heretics.

Notes and citation

Summary: Christians follow Christ and keep the Law and the Prophets through the gospel.

The polemic is the work's own.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): 'Exóusvot → Ἑπόμενοι; χριστοχτόνους → χριστοκτόνους.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.25.1 (Funk 1:367; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-25-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.25.2Funk 1:367

πειθαρχήσωμεν Χριστῷ ὡς βασιλεῖ, ὡς ἐξουσίαν ἔχοντι μετατιθέναι διατάξεις διαφόρους, καὶ ἔχοντι ὡς νομοθέτῃ σοφίαν τοῦ διατάσσεσθαι διαφόρως, πανταχοῦ τῶν φυσικῶν ἀμεταθέτων φυλασσομένων.

peitharchēsōmen Christǭ hōs basilei, hōs exousian echonti metatithenai diataxeis diaphorous, kai echonti hōs nomothetę̄ sophian tou diatassesthai diaphorōs, pantachou tōn physikōn ametathetōn phylassomenōn.

Let us obey Christ as king, as one who has authority to change various ordinances and who has, as lawgiver, wisdom to ordain in different ways, while the natural laws are everywhere kept unchanged.

Notes and citation

Summary: Christ as lawgiver may change ordinances, but the natural laws remain.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): φυσιχῶν → φυσικῶν; ᾿φυλασσομένων → φυλασσομένων.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.25.2 (Funk 1:367; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-25-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 26

6.26.1Funk 1:367

Ἀπέχεσθε οὖν αἱρεσιωτῶν πάντων, ὦ ἐπίσκοποι καὶ λαϊκοί, τῶν φαυλιζόντων τὸν Νόμον καὶ τοὺς Προφήτας. θεῷ γὰρ παντοκράτορι ἐχθραίνοντες ἀπειθοῦσι, καὶ Χριστὸν οὐχ ὁμολογοῦσιν υἱὸν θεοῦ· ἀρνοῦνται γὰρ καὶ τὴν κατὰ σάρκα αὐτοῦ γέννησιν, τὸν σταυρὸν ἐπαισχύνονται, τὸ πάθος καὶ τὸν θάνατον ἀδοξοῦσι, τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἀγνοοῦσι, τὴν πρὸ αἰώνων αὐτοῦ γέννησιν περικόπτουσιν.

Apechesthe oun hairesiōtōn pantōn, ō episkopoi kai laïkoi, tōn phaulizontōn ton Nomon kai tous Prophētas. theǭ gar pantokratori echthrainontes apeithousi, kai Christon ouch homologousin huion theou; arnountai gar kai tēn kata sarka autou gennēsin, ton stauron epaischynontai, to pathos kai ton thanaton adoxousi, tēn anastasin agnoousi, tēn pro aiōnōn autou gennēsin perikoptousin.

Keep away, then, from all heretics, O bishops and laity, who disparage the Law and the Prophets. For being hostile to God almighty they disobey him, and they do not confess Christ as the Son of God; for they deny also his birth according to the flesh, are ashamed of the cross, hold the passion and death in dishonor, are ignorant of the resurrection, and cut away his generation before the ages.

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Summary: Heretics who reject the Law and Prophets deny Christ's birth, cross, resurrection and eternal generation.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: κ read as χ): ᾿πέχεσθε → Ἀπέχεσθε; λαϊχοί → λαϊκοί; παντοχράτορι → παντοκράτορι; óυολογοῦσιν υἱὸν θεοῖ᾽ → ὁμολογοῦσιν υἱὸν θεοῦ·; xarà → κατὰ; γένγνησι» → γέννησιν.

Topics: Heresy, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.26.1 (Funk 1:367; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-26-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.26.2Funk 1:367–369

τινὲς δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἑτέρως ἀσεβοῦσι, ψιλὸν ἄνθρωπον εἶναι φανταζόμενοι τὸν κύριον, ἐκ ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος αὐτὸν εἶναι νομίζοντες· ἕτεροι δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν αὐτὸν εἶναι τὸν Ἰησοῦν τὸν ἐπὶ πάντων θεὸν ὑποπτεύουσιν, αὐτὸν ἑαυτοῦ πατέρα δοξάζοντες, αὐτὸν υἱὸν καὶ παράκλητον ὑποπτεύοντες· ὧν τί ἂν εἴη ἐναγέστερον;

tines de ex autōn heterōs asebousi, psilon anthrōpon einai phantazomenoi ton kyrion, ek psychēs kai sōmatos auton einai nomizontes; heteroi de ex autōn auton einai ton Iēsoun ton epi pantōn theon hypopteuousin, auton heautou patera doxazontes, auton huion kai paraklēton hypopteuontes; hōn ti an eiē enagesteron?

And some of them are impious in another way, imagining the Lord to be a mere man, thinking him to consist of soul and body; and others of them suppose that Jesus himself is the God over all, glorifying him as his own Father and supposing him to be Son and Paraclete; and what could be more abominable than this?

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Summary: Some heretics make Christ a mere man; others make him Father, Son and Paraclete at once.

The second error is the view that the Father, Son and Spirit are one person under three names.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ες" ἕ → ες· ἕ; ες" ὧ → ες· ὧ.

Topics: Heresy, Christology, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.26.2 (Funk 1:367–369; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-26-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.26.3Funk 1:369

ἄλλοι δ᾽ αὖ πάλιν ἐξ αὐτῶν βρώματά τινα φαυλίζουσιν, καὶ γάμον κακὸν σὺν παιδοποιΐᾳ λέγουσιν εἶναι διαβόλου τε μηχάνημα᾽ καὶ διὰ τὴν πονηρίαν αὐτῶν, ἀσεβεῖς ὄντες, οὐ θέλουσιν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστῆναι, διὸ καὶ τὴν ἀνάστασιν διαβάλλουσιν, φάσκοντες, ὅτι σεμνοί τινες ἐσμὲν ἐσθίειν καὶ πίνειν μὴ βουλόμενοι, δαιμόνια δὲ ἄσαρκα φανταζόμενοι ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστήσεσθαι᾽ οἵτινες καταδικασθήσονται διʼ αἰῶνος ἐν τῷ αἰωνίῳ πυρί. φεύγετε οὖν ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν, ἵνα μὴ συναπόλησθε ταῖς αὐτῶν ἀσεβείαις.

alloi d᾽ au palin ex autōn brōmata tina phaulizousin, kai gamon kakon syn paidopoiïą legousin einai diabolou te mēchanēma᾽ kai dia tēn ponērian autōn, asebeis ontes, ou thelousin ek nekrōn anastēnai, dio kai tēn anastasin diaballousin, phaskontes, hoti semnoi tines esmen esthiein kai pinein mē boulomenoi, daimonia de asarka phantazomenoi ek nekrōn anastēsesthai᾽ hoitines katadikasthēsontai diʼ aiōnos en tǭ aiōniǭ pyri. pheugete oun ap᾽ autōn, hina mē synapolēsthe tais autōn asebeiais.

And others of them again disparage certain foods, and say that marriage together with the begetting of children is evil and a device of the devil; and because of their wickedness, being impious, they do not wish to rise from the dead, and therefore they also slander the resurrection, saying, “We are holy people who do not wish to eat and drink,” and imagining that they will rise from the dead as fleshless demons. They will be condemned forever in the eternal fire. Flee from them, then, so that you may not perish with their impieties.

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Summary: Some heretics condemn marriage and food and deny the bodily resurrection.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Ó αὐ → δ᾽ αὖ; λέγουσι» → λέγουσιν; νεχρῶν → νεκρῶν.

Topics: Heresy, Marriage, Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.26.3 (Funk 1:369; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-26-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 27

6.27.1Funk 1:369–371

Εἰ δέ τινες παρατηρούμενοι φυλάσσουσιν ἔθιμα ἰουδαϊκά, γονορροίας, ὀνειρώξεις, πλησιασμοὺς τοὺς κατὰ νόμον, λεγέτωσαν ἡμῖν, εἰ ἐν αἷς ὥραις ἢ ἡμέραις ἕν τι τούτων ὑπομείνωσιν παρατηροῦνται προσεύξασθαι ἢ εὐχαριστίας μεταλαβεῖν ἢ βιβλίου θίγειν, καὶ ἐὰν συνθῶνται, δῆλον ὡς τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος κενοὶ τυγχάνουσιν τοῦ ἀεὶ παραμένοντος τοῖς πιστοῖς· περὶ γὰρ τῶν ὁσίων λέγει ὃ Σολομών, ἵν ἕκαστος ἑαυτὸν εὐτρεπίζῃ, ὅπως, ὅταν καθεύδῃ, φυλάσσῃ αὐτὸν καί, ὡς ἂν ἐγείρηται, συλλαλῇ αὐτῷ.

Ei de tines paratēroumenoi phylassousin ethima ioudaïka, gonorroias, oneirōxeis, plēsiasmous tous kata nomon, legetōsan hēmin, ei en hais hōrais ē hēmerais hen ti toutōn hypomeinōsin paratērountai proseuxasthai ē eucharistias metalabein ē bibliou thigein, kai ean synthōntai, dēlon hōs tou hagiou pneumatos kenoi tynchanousin tou aei paramenontos tois pistois; peri gar tōn hosiōn legei ho Solomōn, hin hekastos heauton eutrepizę̄, hopōs, hotan katheudę̄, phylassę̄ auton kai, hōs an egeirētai, syllalę̄ autǭ.

And if some, observing Jewish customs, keep watch over flux of semen, nocturnal emissions, lawful intercourse, let them tell us whether in the hours or days in which they undergo any of these things they refrain from praying or partaking of the Eucharist or touching a book; and if they agree, it is clear that they are empty of the Holy Spirit, who always remains with the faithful. For concerning the holy Solomon says that each one should prepare himself, “so that when he sleeps it may keep him, and when he rises it may talk with him.”

Lev 15:16–18 (allusion, medium confidence) · Prov 6:22 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Those who abstain from prayer and the Eucharist after bodily discharges show that they lack the Spirit.

Lev 15; quotation: Prov 6:22.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ς" → ς· ; οὗταν → ὅταν; ῷ“. → ῷ..

Topics: Prayer, Eucharist

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.27.1 (Funk 1:369–371; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-27-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.27.2Funk 1:371

εἰ γὰρ νομίζεις, ὦ γύναι, ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας ἐν ἀφέδρῳ οὖσα τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος κενὴ τυγχάνειν, ἄρα τελευτήσασα ἐξαίφνης κενὴ πνεύματος καὶ ἀπαρρησίαστος τῆς πρὸς θεὸν ἐλπίδος ἀπελεύσῃ. ἢ τὸ μὲν πνεῦμα ἔχεις πάντως ἀχώριστον ἅτε μὴ ἐν τόπῳ ὄν, δεῖ δέ σοι προσευχῆς καὶ εὐχαριστίας καὶ τῆς τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἐπιφοιτήσεως, ὡς οὐδὲν ἐν τούτῳ παρανομοῦσα.

ei gar nomizeis, ō gynai, hepta hēmeras en aphedrǭ ousa tou hagiou pneumatos kenē tynchanein, ara teleutēsasa exaiphnēs kenē pneumatos kai aparrēsiastos tēs pros theon elpidos apeleusę̄. ē to men pneuma echeis pantōs achōriston hate mē en topǭ on, dei de soi proseuchēs kai eucharistias kai tēs tou hagiou pneumatos epiphoitēseōs, hōs ouden en toutǭ paranomousa.

For if you think, O woman, that during the seven days you are in your separation you are empty of the Holy Spirit, then, if you die suddenly, you will depart empty of the Spirit and without confidence of hope toward God. Or else you certainly have the Spirit inseparable from you, since he is not in a place; but you need prayer and the Eucharist and the visitation of the Holy Spirit, since you do nothing unlawful in this.

Lev 15:19 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: A menstruating woman keeps the Spirit and should pray and receive the Eucharist.

Lev 15:19.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): yàg → γὰρ; iv ἀφέδρῳ → ἐν ἀφέδρῳ; ἔν τόπῳ → ἐν τόπῳ; oc οὐδὲν → ὡς οὐδὲν.

Topics: Prayer, Eucharist

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.27.2 (Funk 1:371; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-27-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.27.3Funk 1:371

οὔτε γὰρ νόμιμος μίξις οὔτε λέχος οὔτε αἵματος φορά, οὐκ ὀνείρωξις μιᾶναι δύναται ἀνθρώπου φύσιν ἢ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα χωρίσαι, ἢ μόνη ἀσέβεια καὶ παράνομος πρᾶξις. τὸ γὰρ ἅγιον πνεῦμα τοῖς κεκτημένοις αὐτὸ ἀεὶ παράμονόν ἐστιν, ἕως ἂν ὦσιν ἄξιοι, καὶ ὧν ἂν χωρισθῇ, τούτους ἐρήμους καθίστησιν καὶ τῷ πονηρῷ πνεύματι ἐκδύτους.

oute gar nomimos mixis oute lechos oute haimatos phora, ouk oneirōxis mianai dynatai anthrōpou physin ē to hagion pneuma chōrisai, ē monē asebeia kai paranomos praxis. to gar hagion pneuma tois kektēmenois auto aei paramonon estin, heōs an ōsin axioi, kai hōn an chōristhę̄, toutous erēmous kathistēsin kai tǭ ponērǭ pneumati ekdytous.

For neither lawful intercourse, nor childbirth, nor the flow of blood, nor nocturnal emission can defile a man's nature or separate the Holy Spirit, but only impiety and lawless conduct. For the Holy Spirit remains always with those who have acquired him, as long as they are worthy; and those from whom he is separated he leaves desolate and stripped bare to the evil spirit.

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Summary: Only impiety and lawlessness, not bodily processes or lawful intercourse, separate the Holy Spirit.

Topics: Marriage, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.27.3 (Funk 1:371; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-27-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.27.4Funk 1:371

πᾶς δὲ ἄνθρωπος ὃ μὲν τῷ πνεύματι πεπλήρωται τῷ ἁγίῳ, ὃ δὲ τῷ ἀκαθάρτῳ, καὶ οὐχ οἷόν τε φυγεῖν αὐτῶν ἑκάτερον, εἰ μὴ ἐναντίον τι πάθωσιν· ὅ τε γὰρ παράκλητος μισεῖ πᾶν ψεῦδος, ὅ τε διάβολος πᾶσαν ἀλήθειαν.

pas de anthrōpos ho men tǭ pneumati peplērōtai tǭ hagiǭ, ho de tǭ akathartǭ, kai ouch hoion te phygein autōn hekateron, ei mē enantion ti pathōsin; ho te gar paraklētos misei pan pseudos, ho te diabolos pasan alētheian.

And every man is filled either with the Holy Spirit or with the unclean one, and it is not possible to be free of both, unless one experiences the contrary; for the Paraclete hates every lie, and the devil all truth.

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Summary: Every person is filled with either the Holy Spirit or the unclean spirit.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: stray line number): τᾷ → τῷ ; ν" → ν· ; 0 τε διάβολος → ὅ τε διάβολος; ἀλήθειαν. 15 → ἀλήθειαν..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.27.4 (Funk 1:371; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-27-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.27.5Funk 1:371–373

πᾶς δὲ βεβαπτισμένος κατὰ ἀλήθειαν τοῦ μὲν διαβολικοῦ πνεύματος κεχώρισται, τοῦ δὲ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἐντὸς καθέστηκεν᾽ καὶ ἀγαθοεργοῦντι μὲν παραμένει τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, πληροῦν αὐτὸν σοφίας καὶ συνέσεως, καὶ τὸ πονηρὸν πνεῦμα οὐκ ἐᾷ αὐτῷ πλησιάσαι, ἐπιτηροῦν αὐτοῦ τὰς ἐφόδους.

pas de bebaptismenos kata alētheian tou men diabolikou pneumatos kechōristai, tou de hagiou pneumatos entos kathestēken᾽ kai agathoergounti men paramenei to pneuma to hagion, plēroun auton sophias kai syneseōs, kai to ponēron pneuma ouk eą autǭ plēsiasai, epitēroun autou tas ephodous.

And everyone who has been truly baptized has been separated from the diabolical spirit and has come to be within the Holy Spirit; and with one who does good the Holy Spirit remains, filling him with wisdom and understanding, and does not allow the evil spirit to come near him, watching over his approaches.

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Summary: The truly baptized are freed from the devil's spirit and guarded by the Holy Spirit while they do good.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: stray marks): 32 - . - - → ; uiv → μὲν; P , ^ - 3 - - → .

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.27.5 (Funk 1:371–373; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-27-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.27.6Funk 1:373

σὺ οὖν, ὦ γύναι, καθὼς λέγεις, εἰ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῆς ἀφέδρου κενὴ τυγχάνεις τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, τοῦ ἀκαθάρτου πεπλήρωσαι. μὴ προσευχομένη γὰρ μηδὲ ἀναγινώσκουσα ἄκοντα αὐτὸν προσκαλέσῃ· φιλεῖ γὰρ οὗτος τοὺς ἀχαρίστους, εἴ καί τις ἄλλος, τοὺς ῥᾳθύμους, τοὺς ἀμελεῖς, τοὺς ὑπνώδεις, ἐπειδὴ καὶ αὐτὸς ἀχαριστίᾳ κακόνοιαν νοσήσας ἐγυμνώθη παρὰ θεοῦ τῆς ἀξίας, ἀντὶ ἀρχαγγέλου διάβολος αἱρησάμενος εἶναι.

sy oun, ō gynai, kathōs legeis, ei en tais hēmerais tēs aphedrou kenē tynchaneis tou hagiou pneumatos, tou akathartou peplērōsai. mē proseuchomenē gar mēde anaginōskousa akonta auton proskalesę̄; philei gar houtos tous acharistous, ei kai tis allos, tous rhąthymous, tous ameleis, tous hypnōdeis, epeidē kai autos acharistią kakonoian nosēsas egymnōthē para theou tēs axias, anti archangelou diabolos hairēsamenos einai.

You, then, O woman, if, as you say, you are empty of the Holy Spirit in the days of your separation, you are filled with the unclean one. For by not praying or reading you will call him to you even against your will; for he loves the ungrateful, if anyone does, the slothful, the negligent, the sleepy, since he himself too, sick with ill will through ingratitude, was stripped of his rank by God, having chosen to be a devil instead of an archangel.

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Summary: A woman who stops praying during her period invites the unclean spirit.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): προσχαλέσῃ" → προσκαλέσῃ·; εἶ καί → εἴ καί.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.27.6 (Funk 1:373; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-27-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.27.7Funk 1:373–375

διὸ τῶν ματαίων ἀπόσχου λόγων, ὦ γύναι, καὶ ἔσο μεμνημένη πάντοτε θεοῦ τοῦ σε δημιουργήσαντος καὶ προσεύχου τούτῳ, ἐστὶν γὰρ σοῦ καὶ τῶν ὅλων κύριος· καὶ μελέτα τοὺς αὐτοῦ νόμους, μηθὲν παρατηρουμένη, μὴ κάθαρσιν φυσικήν, μὴ μίξιν νόμιμον, μὴ τοκετὸν ἢ ἀποβολήν, μὴ μῶμον σώματος, ἐπείπερ τὰ τοιαῦτα παρατηρήματα μωρῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐφευρέματα μάταια καὶ νοῦν οὐκ ἔχοντα.

dio tōn mataiōn aposchou logōn, ō gynai, kai eso memnēmenē pantote theou tou se dēmiourgēsantos kai proseuchou toutǭ, estin gar sou kai tōn holōn kyrios; kai meleta tous autou nomous, mēthen paratēroumenē, mē katharsin physikēn, mē mixin nomimon, mē toketon ē apobolēn, mē mōmon sōmatos, epeiper ta toiauta paratērēmata mōrōn anthrōpōn epheuremata mataia kai noun ouk echonta.

Therefore, O woman, abstain from vain words, and be always mindful of God who created you, and pray to him; for he is Lord of you and of all things; and meditate on his laws, observing nothing: not the natural purgation, not lawful intercourse, not childbirth or miscarriage, not a bodily blemish; since such observances are vain inventions of foolish men and have no sense in them.

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Summary: Women should pray and meditate on God's law without ritual purity observances.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ς" → ς· .

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.27.7 (Funk 1:373–375; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-27-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.27.8Funk 1:375

οὔτε δὲ κῆδος ἀνθρώπου οὔτε ὀστέον νεκροῦ οὔτε μνῆμα οὔτε τοιόνδε βρῶμα οὔτε ὀνειρωγμὸς μιᾶναι δύναται ἀνθρώπου ψυχήν, ἀλλὰ μόνη ἀσέβεια ἡ εἰς θεὸν καὶ παρανομία καὶ ἡ εἰς τὸν πλησίον ἀδικία, λέγω δὴ ἁρπαγὴ ἢ βία ἢ εἴ τι ἐναντίον τῆς αὐτοῦ δικαιοσύνης, μοιχεία ἢ πορνεία.

oute de kēdos anthrōpou oute osteon nekrou oute mnēma oute toionde brōma oute oneirōgmos mianai dynatai anthrōpou psychēn, alla monē asebeia hē eis theon kai paranomia kai hē eis ton plēsion adikia, legō dē harpagē ē bia ē ei ti enantion tēs autou dikaiosynēs, moicheia ē porneia.

Neither the burial of a man, nor the bone of a dead man, nor a tomb, nor any such food, nor nocturnal emission can defile a man's soul, but only impiety toward God and lawlessness and injustice toward one's neighbor, I mean robbery or violence, or anything contrary to his righteousness, adultery or sexual immorality.

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Summary: Only impiety and injustice, not contact with the dead or bodily processes, defile the soul.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): νεχροῦ → νεκροῦ.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.27.8 (Funk 1:375; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-27-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 28

6.28.1Funk 1:375–377

Ὅθεν τὰ τοιαῦτα περιϊστάμενοι παρατηρήματα φεύγετε, ἀγαπητοί· ἑλληνικὰ γὰρ τυγχάνει. οὔτε γὰρ τὸν τεθνεῶτα βδελυσσόμεθα, ὡς ἐκεῖνοι, ἐλπίζοντες αὐτὸν πάλιν ἀναβιῶναι, οὔτε τὴν νόμιμον μίξιν κακίζομεν· ἔθος γὰρ αὐτοῖς τὰ τοιαῦτα ἀσεβεῖν. θεοῦ γὰρ γνώμῃ ἀνδρὸς καὶ γυναικὸς συνέλευσις γίνεται ἡ μετὰ δικαιοσύνης· Ὁ ποιήσας γὰρ ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ ἐποίησεν αὐτοὺς, καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτοὺς καὶ εἶπεν· Αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληθύνεσθε καὶ πληρώσατε τὴν γῆν. εἰ τοίνυν θεοῦ βουλήσει παραλλαγὴ σχημάτων γέγονεν πρὸς γένεσιν πλήθους, ἄρα κατὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ γνώμην καὶ ἡ συνέλευσις τοῦ ἄρρενος πρὸς τὸ θῆλυ, οὐκέτι δὲ καὶ ἡ παρὰ φύσιν βδελυκτὴ μῖξις ἢ ἡ παράνομος πρᾶξις, ἐχθρὰ θεοῦ ὑπάρχουσα.

Hothen ta toiauta periïstamenoi paratērēmata pheugete, agapētoi; hellēnika gar tynchanei. oute gar ton tethneōta bdelyssometha, hōs ekeinoi, elpizontes auton palin anabiōnai, oute tēn nomimon mixin kakizomen; ethos gar autois ta toiauta asebein. theou gar gnōmę̄ andros kai gynaikos syneleusis ginetai hē meta dikaiosynēs; Ho poiēsas gar ap᾽ archēs arsen kai thēly epoiēsen autous, kai eulogēsen autous kai eipen; Auxanesthe kai plēthynesthe kai plērōsate tēn gēn. ei toinyn theou boulēsei parallagē schēmatōn gegonen pros genesin plēthous, ara kata tēn autou gnōmēn kai hē syneleusis tou arrenos pros to thēly, ouketi de kai hē para physin bdelyktē mixis ē hē paranomos praxis, echthra theou hyparchousa.

Therefore, beloved, shun and flee such observances, for they are pagan. For we do not abhor the dead, as they do, since we hope that he will live again; nor do we condemn lawful intercourse, for it is their custom to act impiously in such matters. For it is by the mind of God that the coming together of man and woman takes place, when it is with righteousness; “for he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,” and he blessed them and said, “Increase and multiply and fill the earth.” If, then, the difference of forms came about by the will of God for the generation of a multitude, then the coming together of male with female too is according to his mind; but not so the abominable intercourse contrary to nature, or lawless conduct, which is hostile to God.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Matt 19:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 1:27–28 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christians do not abhor the dead or lawful intercourse, which God ordained, but reject unnatural and lawless acts.

Funk prints the older chapter number 28 inside this ref; it is removed. Quotations: Matt 19:4; Gen 1:28.

Notes on the original text

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Topics: Marriage, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.28.1 (Funk 1:375–377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-28-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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καὶ γὰρ παρὰ φύσιν ἐστὶν ἡ Σοδόμων ἁμαρτία καὶ ἡ πρὸς ἄλογα, παράνομον δὲ μοιχεία καὶ πορνεία, ὧν τὰ μὲν ἀσεβήματα, τὰ δὲ ἀδικία καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον ἁμάρτημα, οὐδέτερον δὲ αὐτῶν ἀτιμώρητον κατὰ τὴν οἰκείαν διάθεσιν.

kai gar para physin estin hē Sodomōn hamartia kai hē pros aloga, paranomon de moicheia kai porneia, hōn ta men asebēmata, ta de adikia kai to teleutaion hamartēma, oudeteron de autōn atimōrēton kata tēn oikeian diathesin.

For the sin of Sodom is contrary to nature, and so is that with beasts; but adultery and sexual immorality are against the law. Of these the former are impieties, the latter injustice and, in short, sin; and neither of them goes unpunished, according to its own character.

Gen 19:4–5 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Sodomy and bestiality are against nature, adultery and sexual immorality against the law; all are punished.

Gen 19.

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Topics: Ethics, Marriage

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.28.2 (Funk 1:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-28-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.28.3Funk 1:377

οἵ τε γὰρ πρῶτοι διάλυσιν κόσμου μηχανῶνται, τὰ κατὰ φύσιν παρὰ φύσιν ἐπιχειροῦντες ποιεῖν οἱ δὲ δεύτεροι οἱ μὲν ἀδικοῦσιν ἀλλοτρίους γάμους φθείροντες καὶ τὸ ὑπὸ θεοῦ γενόμενον ἕν διαιροῦσιν εἰς δύο τούς τε παῖδας ὑπόπτους καὶ τὸν φυσικὸν ἄνδρα εὐεπιβούλευτον, ἣ τε πορνεία φθορὰ τῆς οἰκείας ἐστὶ σαρκός, οὐκ ἐπὶ παιδοποιΐᾳ γινομένη, ἀλλ᾽ ἡδονῇ χαριζομένη τὸ πᾶν, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἀκρασίας σύμβολον, ἀλλ οὐκ ἀρετῆς σημεῖον.

hoi te gar prōtoi dialysin kosmou mēchanōntai, ta kata physin para physin epicheirountes poiein hoi de deuteroi hoi men adikousin allotrious gamous phtheirontes kai to hypo theou genomenon hen diairousin eis dyo tous te paidas hypoptous kai ton physikon andra euepibouleuton, hē te porneia phthora tēs oikeias esti sarkos, ouk epi paidopoiïą ginomenē, all᾽ hēdonę̄ charizomenē to pan, hoper estin akrasias symbolon, all ouk aretēs sēmeion.

For the first plot the dissolution of the world, attempting to make what is according to nature contrary to nature; and of the second, the adulterers do injustice, corrupting other men's marriages and dividing into two what God made one, making the children suspect and the natural husband open to plots; and sexual immorality is the corruption of one's own flesh, not taking place for the begetting of children but wholly gratifying pleasure, which is a token of incontinence, not a sign of virtue.

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Summary: Unnatural sins undo nature; adultery wrongs another's marriage; sexual immorality corrupts one's own flesh for pleasure.

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Topics: Marriage, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.28.3 (Funk 1:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-28-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.28.4Funk 1:377

ἀπηγόρευται δὲ τοῖς νόμοις ἅπαντα ταῦτα. φησὶν γὰρ τὰ λόγια οὕτως· Οὐ κοιμηθήσῃ μετὰ ἄρρενος κοίτην γυναικείαν, ἐπικατάρατος γὰρ ὃ τοιοῦτος καὶ λίθοις λιθοβολήσατε αὐτούς, βδέλυγμα ἐποίησαν. πάντα κοιμώμενον μετὰ κτήνους, ἀποκτείνατε αὐτόν, ἀνομίαν ἐποίησεν ἐν τῷ λαῷ᾽ καὶ ἐάν τις γυναῖκα ὕπανδρον μιάνῃ, ἀποκτείνατε ἀμφοτέρους, ἀνομίαν ἐποίησαν, ἔνοχοί εἰσιν, ἀποθανέτωσαν, καὶ ἑξῆς· Οὐκ ἔσται πορνεύων ἐν υἱοῖς Ἰσραήλ, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται πορνεύουσα ἀπὸ θυγατέρων Ἰσραήλ᾽ οὐ προσοίσεις μίσθωμα πόρνης κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ σου ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον οὔτε ἄλλαγμα κυνός· οὐ γὰρ ἁγναί, φησίν, εὐχαὶ ἐκ μισθώματος ἑταίρας.

apēgoreutai de tois nomois hapanta tauta. phēsin gar ta logia houtōs; Ou koimēthēsę̄ meta arrenos koitēn gynaikeian, epikataratos gar ho toioutos kai lithois lithobolēsate autous, bdelygma epoiēsan. panta koimōmenon meta ktēnous, apokteinate auton, anomian epoiēsen en tǭ laǭ᾽ kai ean tis gynaika hypandron mianę̄, apokteinate amphoterous, anomian epoiēsan, enochoi eisin, apothanetōsan, kai hexēs; Ouk estai porneuōn en huiois Israēl, kai ouk estai porneuousa apo thygaterōn Israēl᾽ ou prosoiseis misthōma pornēs kyriǭ tǭ theǭ sou epi to thysiastērion oute allagma kynos; ou gar hagnai, phēsin, euchai ek misthōmatos hetairas.

All these things are forbidden by the laws; for the oracles say thus: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; for such a one is accursed, and stone them with stones; they have done an abomination. Everyone who lies with a beast, kill him; he has done lawlessness among the people. And if anyone defiles a married woman, kill them both; they have done lawlessness; they are guilty; let them die”; and further, “There shall be no one committing sexual immorality among the sons of Israel, and there shall be no woman committing sexual immorality among the daughters of Israel; you shall not bring the hire of a prostitute to the Lord your God to the altar, nor the price of a dog”; for “vows from the hire of a courtesan,” it says, “are not pure.”

Lev 18:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Lev 20:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Lev 20:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Lev 20:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 23:17–18 (23:18-Deut LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Prov 19:13 (quotation, medium confidence)

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Summary: The law forbids sodomy, bestiality, adultery and prostitution.

Quotations: Lev 18:22; 20:13, 15, 10; Deut 23:17–18 (23:18–19 LXX); Prov 19:13 (LXX). The words are adapted and combined.

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Topics: Marriage, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.28.4 (Funk 1:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-28-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.28.5Funk 1:377

ταῦτα μὲν ἀπηγόρευσαν οἱ νόμοι, τὸν δὲ γάμον ἐσέμνυναν, εὐλογημένον αὐτὸν ἀποκαλέσαντες, ἐπειδὴ καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτὸν ὁ θεὸς ὃ συζεύξας τὸ θῆλυ τῷ ἄρρενι. λέγει δέ που καὶ ὁ σοφὸς Σολομών· Παρὰ κυρίου ἁρμόζεται γυνὴ ἀνδρί, καὶ ὁ Δαυὶδ λέγει Ἡ γυνή σου ὡς ἄμπελος εὐθηνοῦσα ἐν τοῖς κλίτεσι τῆς οἰκίας σου, οἱ υἱοί σου ὡς νεόφυτα ἐλαιῶν κύκλῳ τῆς τραπέζης σου· ἰδοὺ οὕτως εὐλογηθήσεται ἄνθρωπος ὁ φοβούμενος τὸν κύριον.

tauta men apēgoreusan hoi nomoi, ton de gamon esemnynan, eulogēmenon auton apokalesantes, epeidē kai eulogēsen auton ho theos ho syzeuxas to thēly tǭ arreni. legei de pou kai ho sophos Solomōn; Para kyriou harmozetai gynē andri, kai ho Dauid legei Hē gynē sou hōs ampelos euthēnousa en tois klitesi tēs oikias sou, hoi huioi sou hōs neophyta elaiōn kyklǭ tēs trapezēs sou; idou houtōs eulogēthēsetai anthrōpos ho phoboumenos ton kyrion.

These things the laws forbade, but they honored marriage, calling it blessed, since God, who joined the female to the male, blessed it. And the wise Solomon says somewhere, “A wife is joined to a husband by the Lord”; and David says, “Your wife is like a fruitful vine on the sides of your house, your sons like young olive plants around your table; behold, thus shall the man who fears the Lord be blessed.”

Prov 19:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 128:3–4 (127:3-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The law honors marriage as blessed by God.

Quotations: Prov 19:14 (LXX); Ps 128:3–4 (127:3–4 LXX).

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Topics: Marriage

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.28.5 (Funk 1:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-28-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.28.6Funk 1:377

οὐκοῦν ὁ γάμος τίμιος καὶ σεμνὸς καὶ ἡ τῶν παίδων γένεσις καθαρά· οὐδὲν γὰρ κακὸν ἐν καλῷ ὑπάρχει.

oukoun ho gamos timios kai semnos kai hē tōn paidōn genesis kathara; ouden gar kakon en kalǭ hyparchei.

So “marriage is honorable” and dignified, and the begetting of children pure; for there is no evil in what is good.

Heb 13:4 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Marriage and childbearing are honorable and pure.

Heb 13:4.

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Topics: Marriage

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.28.6 (Funk 1:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-28-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.28.7Funk 1:377–379

οὔτε οὖν ἡ φυσικὴ κάθαρσις βδελυκτὴ θεῷ, ὃς αὐτὴν ᾠκονόμησεν συμβαίνειν γυναιξὶν ἐν τριακονθημέρῳ συστάσεως χάριν καὶ εὐρῳστίας ἀκινητοτέραις ὑπαρχούσαις, ἅτε ἐν οἰκίᾳ καθημέναις τὸ πλεῖον. οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ ὁ κύριος, τῆς αἱμορροούσης ἁψαμένης τοῦ σωτηρίου κρασπέδου ὑγείας χάριν, οὐκ ἠχθέσθη ἐπ᾿ αὐτῇ, οὔτε μὴν ὅλως ἠτιάσατο, τοὐναντίον δὲ καὶ ἰάσατο αὐτὴν φήσας· , Ἢ πίστις σου σέσωκέν σε. καὶ φυσικῶν μὲν φαινομένων ταῖς γυναιξὶν οἱ ἄνδρες μὴ συνερχέσθωσαν προνοίας ἕνεκεν τῶν γεννωμένων᾽ ἀπεῖπεν γὰρ ὁ Νόμος· Πρὸς γυναῖκα γάρ, φησίν, ἐν ἀφέδρῳ οὖσαν οὐ προσεγγιεῖς. μήτε μὴν ἐγκυμονούσαις ὁμιλείτωσαν αὐταῖς· οὐκ ἐπὶ παίδων γὰρ γενέσει τοῦτο ποιοῦσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἡδονῆς χάριν, οὐ δεῖ δὲ φιλήδονον τὸν φιλόθεον ὑπάρχειν.

oute oun hē physikē katharsis bdelyktē theǭ, hos autēn ǭkonomēsen symbainein gynaixin en triakonthēmerǭ systaseōs charin kai eurǭstias akinētoterais hyparchousais, hate en oikią kathēmenais to pleion. ou mēn de alla kai en tǭ euangeliǭ ho kyrios, tēs haimorroousēs hapsamenēs tou sōtēriou kraspedou hygeias charin, ouk ēchthesthē ep᾿ autę̄, oute mēn holōs ētiasato, tounantion de kai iasato autēn phēsas; , Ē pistis sou sesōken se. kai physikōn men phainomenōn tais gynaixin hoi andres mē synerchesthōsan pronoias heneken tōn gennōmenōn᾽ apeipen gar ho Nomos; Pros gynaika gar, phēsin, en aphedrǭ ousan ou prosengieis. mēte mēn enkymonousais homileitōsan autais; ouk epi paidōn gar genesei touto poiousin, all᾽ hēdonēs charin, ou dei de philēdonon ton philotheon hyparchein.

Nor, then, is the natural purgation abominable to God, who ordained that it should happen to women every thirty days for their constitution and health, since they are less active, sitting mostly in the house. And not only so, but in the Gospel too the Lord, when the woman with the flow of blood touched the saving fringe of his garment for the sake of health, was not angry with her nor blamed her at all, but on the contrary healed her, saying, “Your faith has saved you.” [8] And when the natural flows appear in their wives, let the husbands not come together with them, out of forethought for those to be born; for the Law forbade it: “You shall not approach a woman,” it says, “who is in her separation.” Nor let them have intercourse with them when they are pregnant; for they do this not for the begetting of children but for pleasure, and the lover of God must not be a lover of pleasure.

Matt 9:20–22 (allusion, high confidence) · Lev 18:19 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Tim 3:4 (echo, medium confidence)

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Summary: Menstruation is not abominable, but husbands should abstain then and during pregnancy.

The section number 8 was lost in the OCR; “[8]” marks where it begins. Matt 9:20–22; Lev 18:19; 2 Tim 3:4.

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Topics: Marriage

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.28.7 (Funk 1:377–379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-28-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 29

6.29.1Funk 1:379

Αἱ γυναῖκες, ὑποτάσσεσθε τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσι καὶ διὰ τιμῆς αὐτοὺς ἔχετε καὶ φόβῳ καὶ ἀγάπῃ δουλεύετε αὐτοῖς, ὡς ἡ ἁγία Σάρρα τὸν Αβραὰμ ἐτίμα οὐδὲ ἐξ ὀνόματος αὐτὸν ὑπομένουσα καλεῖν, ἀλλὰ κύριον αὐτὸν προσαγορεύουσα ἐν τῷ λέγειν· Ὁ δὲ κύριός μου πρεσβύτης.

Hai gynaikes, hypotassesthe tois idiois andrasi kai dia timēs autous echete kai phobǭ kai agapę̄ douleuete autois, hōs hē hagia Sarra ton Abraam etima oude ex onomatos auton hypomenousa kalein, alla kyrion auton prosagoreuousa en tǭ legein; Ho de kyrios mou presbytēs.

“Wives, be subject to your own husbands,” and hold them in honor, and serve them with fear and love, as the holy Sarah honored Abraham, not even bearing to call him by his name, but addressing him as lord when she said, “And my lord is old.”

Eph 5:22 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Pet 3:6 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 18:12 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Wives are to honor and serve their husbands, as Sarah did Abraham.

Eph 5:22; 1 Pet 3:6; Gen 18:12.

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Topics: Marriage

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.29.1 (Funk 1:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-29-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.29.2Funk 1:379

ὁμοίως οἱ ἄνδρες, στέργετε τὰς ἑαυτῶν γυναῖκας ὡς ἴδια μέλη, ὡς κοινωνοὺς βίου καὶ συνεργοὺς πρὸς γένεσιν παίδων. Συνευφραίνου γάρ, φησίν, μετὰ γυναικὸς τῆς ἐκ νεότητός σου, ἔλαφος σῆς φιλίας καὶ πῶλος σῶν χαρίτων ὁμιλείτω σοι, ἡ δὲ ἰδία ἡγείσθω σου καὶ συνέστω σοι ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ· ἐν γὰρ τῇ ταύτης φιλίᾳ συμπεριφερόμενος πολλοστὸς ἔσῃ.

homoiōs hoi andres, stergete tas heautōn gynaikas hōs idia melē, hōs koinōnous biou kai synergous pros genesin paidōn. Syneuphrainou gar, phēsin, meta gynaikos tēs ek neotētos sou, elaphos sēs philias kai pōlos sōn charitōn homileitō soi, hē de idia hēgeisthō sou kai synestō soi en panti kairǭ; en gar tę̄ tautēs philią symperipheromenos pollostos esę̄.

Likewise, “husbands, love your own wives as your own members,” as partners in life and fellow workers for the begetting of children. “For rejoice,” it says, “with the wife of your youth; let the deer of your love and the colt of your graces keep company with you; let your own wife lead you and be with you at all times; for, carried along in her love, you will be blessed many times over.”

Eph 5:28 (quotation, high confidence) · Prov 5:18–19 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Husbands are to love their wives as their own members.

Eph 5:28; quotation: Prov 5:18–19 (LXX).

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Topics: Marriage

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.29.2 (Funk 1:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-29-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.29.3Funk 1:379

ἀγαπᾶτε οὖν αὐτὰς ὡς οἰκεῖα μέλη, ὡς ὑμέτερα σώματα· γέγραπται γὰρ οὕτως· Κύριος διεμαρτύρατο ἀνὰ μέσον σου καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον γυναικὸς νεότητός σου, καὶ αὕτη κοινωνός σου καὶ οὐκ ἄλλος ἐποίησεν, καὶ ὑπόλειμμα πνεύματός σου· καὶ φυλάξασθε τῷ πνεύματι ὑμῶν, καὶ γυναῖκα νεότητός σου μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς.

agapate oun autas hōs oikeia melē, hōs hymetera sōmata; gegraptai gar houtōs; Kyrios diemartyrato ana meson sou kai ana meson gynaikos neotētos sou, kai hautē koinōnos sou kai ouk allos epoiēsen, kai hypoleimma pneumatos sou; kai phylaxasthe tǭ pneumati hymōn, kai gynaika neotētos sou mē enkatalipę̄s.

Love them, then, as your own members, as your own bodies; for it is written thus: “The Lord bore witness between you and the wife of your youth, and she is your partner, and no other made her, and she is the remnant of your spirit; and take heed to your spirit, and do not forsake the wife of your youth.”

Mal 2:14–15 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God bears witness to the bond with the wife of one's youth.

Quotation: Mal 2:14–15 (LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): α" → α· ; " ,, → · ; Gov → σου; υ" → υ· ; vd πνεύματι → τῷ πνεύματι; γυναῖχα → γυναῖκα; ς“. → ς..

Topics: Marriage, Divorce and remarriage

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.29.3 (Funk 1:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-29-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.29.4Funk 1:379–381

ἀνὴρ οὖν καὶ γυνή, νομίμῳ γάμῳ συνερχόμενοι καὶ ἐξ ἀλλήλων ἐγειρόμενοι, ἀπαρατηρήτως προσευχέσθωσαν᾽ καὶ μὴ λουσάμενοι καθαροί εἰσιν. ὃς δ᾽ ἂν ἀλλοτρίαν γυναῖκα ὑποφθείρας μιάνῃ ἢ συμμιανθῇ πόρνῃ, ἀναστὰς ἀπ᾿ αὐτῆς, οὐδ᾽ ἂν τὸ πέλαγος ὅλον καὶ τοὺς ποταμοὺς πάντας ἀπολούσηται, καθαρὸς εἶναι δυνήσεται.

anēr oun kai gynē, nomimǭ gamǭ synerchomenoi kai ex allēlōn egeiromenoi, aparatērētōs proseuchesthōsan᾽ kai mē lousamenoi katharoi eisin. hos d᾽ an allotrian gynaika hypophtheiras mianę̄ ē symmianthę̄ pornę̄, anastas ap᾿ autēs, oud᾽ an to pelagos holon kai tous potamous pantas apolousētai, katharos einai dynēsetai.

A husband and wife, then, who come together in lawful marriage and rise from one another, may pray without any observance; and even unwashed they are clean. But whoever corrupts and defiles another man's wife, or is defiled together with a prostitute, will not be able to be clean when he rises from her, not even if he washes himself in the whole sea and all the rivers.

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Summary: Married couples may pray after intercourse without washing, but no washing cleanses adultery or prostitution.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): συνἐρχόμενοι → συνερχόμενοι; &x ἀλλήλων → ἐξ ἀλλήλων; εἶσιν → εἰσιν; yurvaixa → γυναῖκα; χκαθαρὸς → καθαρὸς.

Topics: Marriage, Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.29.4 (Funk 1:379–381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/6-18-1/#p-6-29-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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