Apostolic Constitutions 7.33.1–7.48.4

Apostolic 7, chapter 33

7.33.1Funk 1:424

Τοσούτων δὲ ἠξιωμένοι τῶν παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἀγαθῶν, γενώμεθα αὐτοῦ ἱκέται, ἐπικαλούμενοι αὐτὸν διὰ συνεχοῦς δεήσεως καὶ λέγοντες·

Tosoutōn de ēxiōmenoi tōn par᾽ autou agathōn, genōmetha autou hiketai, epikaloumenoi auton dia synechous deēseōs kai legontes;

Having been counted worthy of so many good things from him, let us become his suppliants, calling on him with continual prayer and saying:

Notes and citation

Summary: A series of prayers is introduced.

Chapters 33–38 contain a series of prayers.

Notes on the original text

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

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.33.1 (Funk 1:424; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-33-1). (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.

7.33.2Funk 1:424

Αἰώνιε σῶτερ ἡμῶν, ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν θεῶν, ὁ ὢν μόνος παντοχράτωρ καὶ κύριος, ὁ θεὸς πάντων τῶν ὄντων καὶ θεὸς τῶν ἁγίων καὶ ἀμέμπτων πατέρων ἡμῶν τῶν πρὸ ἡμῶν, ὁ θεὸς Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακώβ, ὁ ἐλεήμων καὶ οἰκτίρμων, ὃ μακρόθυμος καὶ πολυέλεος, ᾧ πᾶσα γυμνοφανὴς βλέπεται καρδία καὶ πᾶν κρύφιον ἐνθύμημα ἀποκαλύπτεται᾽ πρὸς σὲ βοῶσιν ψυχαὶ δικαίων, ἐπὶ σοὶ πεποίθασιν ἐλπίδες ὁσίων, ὃ τῶν ἀμέμπτων πατήρ, ὃ τῶν μετ᾽ εὐθύτητος ἐπικαλουμένων δὲ ἐπήκοος, ὃ καὶ σιωπωμένας ἐπιστάμενος ἐντεύξεις (χωρεῖ γὰρ μέχρι σπλάγχνων ἀνθρωπίνων ἡ σὴ πρόνοια, καὶ διὰ συνειδήσεως ἐρευνᾷς ἑκάστου τὴν γνώμην), καὶ κατὰ πᾶν κλίμα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὸ διὰ προσευχῆς καὶ λόγων ἀναπέμπεταί σοι θυμίαμα.

Aiōnie sōter hēmōn, ho basileus tōn theōn, ho ōn monos pantochratōr kai kyrios, ho theos pantōn tōn ontōn kai theos tōn hagiōn kai amemptōn paterōn hēmōn tōn pro hēmōn, ho theos Abraam kai Isaak kai Iakōb, ho eleēmōn kai oiktirmōn, ho makrothymos kai polyeleos, hǭ pasa gymnophanēs blepetai kardia kai pan kryphion enthymēma apokalyptetai᾽ pros se boōsin psychai dikaiōn, epi soi pepoithasin elpides hosiōn, ho tōn amemptōn patēr, ho tōn met᾽ euthytētos epikaloumenōn de epēkoos, ho kai siōpōmenas epistamenos enteuxeis (chōrei gar mechri splanchnōn anthrōpinōn hē sē pronoia, kai dia syneidēseōs ereunąs hekastou tēn gnōmēn), kai kata pan klima tēs oikoumenēs to dia proseuchēs kai logōn anapempetai soi thymiama.

“Our eternal Savior, the King of gods, who alone are almighty and Lord, the God of all things that are, and the God of our holy and blameless fathers before us, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, merciful and compassionate, long-suffering and abounding in mercy; to whom every heart is seen laid bare and every hidden thought is revealed; to you the souls of the righteous cry, in you the hopes of the holy have trusted; Father of the blameless, who hear those who call on you with uprightness, who know even petitions left unspoken (for your providence reaches to the inward parts of men, and through the conscience you search the mind of each), and in every region of the world the incense of prayer and words is sent up to you;

Exod 3:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 34:6 (allusion, high confidence) · Ps 103:8 (102:8 LXX) (allusion, medium confidence) · Heb 4:13 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God, the God of the fathers, who knows every heart, receives the prayers of all the world.

“King of gods”: cf. Add Esth 4:17r (C 23). Exod 3:6; 34:6; Ps 103:8 (102:8 LXX); Heb 4:13.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,,0 βασιλεὺς → ὁ βασιλεὺς; “, ó ὧν → , ὁ ὢν; xol , → καὶ ; ῶν“ ἁ → ῶν ἁ; xol ἀμέμπτων» , → καὶ ἀμέμπτων ; ῶν“ τ → ῶν τ; ,,0 θεὸς → ὁ θεὸς; οἰχτίρμων → οἰκτίρμων; ς“, → ς,; φυχαὶ → ψυχαὶ; ἀνθρωπίρων → ἀνθρωπίνων.

Extrabiblical texts: Add Esth C.23 (Additions to Esther [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; allusion)

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.33.2 (Funk 1:424; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-33-2). (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.

7.33.3Funk 1:424

ὁ τὸν παρόντα αἰῶνα στάδιον δικαιοσύνης ἐνστησάμενος, πᾶσι δὲ ἀνοίξας πύλην ἐλεημοσύνης, ὑποδείξας δὲ ἑκάστῳ τῶν ἀνθρώπων διὰ τῆς ἐμφύτου γνώσεως καὶ φυσικῆς κρίσεως καὶ ἐκ τῆς τοῦ νόμου ὑποφωνήσεως, ὡς πλούτου μὲν οὐκ ἀΐδιον τὸ κτῆμα, εὐπρεπείας οὐκ ἀέναον τὸ κάλλος, δυνάμεως εὐδιάλυτος ἡ ἰσχὺς καὶ ἀτμὸς μὲν καὶ ματαιότης τὰ σύνολα μόνη δὲ συνείδησις πίστεως ἀνύπουλος διαμένει διὰ μέσων οὐρανῶν μετὰ ἀληθείας ἀνερχομένη, τῆς μελλούσης τρυφῆς δεξιὰν ἀπολαμβάνει, ἅμα καὶ πρὸ τοῦ παραστῆναι τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν τῆς παλιγγενεσίας αὐτὴ ἡ ψυχὴ τῇ ἐλπίδι γαυρουμένη εὐφραίνεται.

ho ton paronta aiōna stadion dikaiosynēs enstēsamenos, pasi de anoixas pylēn eleēmosynēs, hypodeixas de hekastǭ tōn anthrōpōn dia tēs emphytou gnōseōs kai physikēs kriseōs kai ek tēs tou nomou hypophōnēseōs, hōs ploutou men ouk aïdion to ktēma, euprepeias ouk aenaon to kallos, dynameōs eudialytos hē ischys kai atmos men kai mataiotēs ta synola monē de syneidēsis pisteōs anypoulos diamenei dia mesōn ouranōn meta alētheias anerchomenē, tēs mellousēs tryphēs dexian apolambanei, hama kai pro tou parastēnai tēn hyposchesin tēs palingenesias autē hē psychē tę̄ elpidi gauroumenē euphrainetai.

you who have set up the present age as a racecourse of righteousness, and have opened to all the gate of mercy, and have shown each man, through innate knowledge and natural judgment and from the prompting of the law, that the possession of wealth is not everlasting, the beauty of comeliness not perpetual, the strength of power easily dissolved, and all things together vapor and “vanity”; but only the conscience of faith remains unfeigned, ascending with truth through the midst of the heavens, and receives the right hand of the delight to come; and even before the promise of the rebirth is fulfilled, the soul itself rejoices, exulting in hope.

Eccl 1:2 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: This age is a contest of righteousness in which only a faithful conscience endures.

Eccl 1:2.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ὗποφωνήσεως → ὑποφωνήσεως; »μ → μ; “,, → ; παραστῆναι. τὴν → παραστῆναι τὴν; ἢ ψυχὴ → ἡ ψυχὴ.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.33.3 (Funk 1:424; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-33-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.33.4Funk 1:424

ἐξ ὑπαρχῆς γὰρ τοῦ προπάτορος ἡμῶν Ἀβραὰμ μεταποιουμένου τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς ἀληθείας, δραματισμῷ ὡδήγησας, διδάξας,

ex hyparchēs gar tou propatoros hēmōn Abraam metapoioumenou tēn hodon tēs alētheias, dramatismǭ hōdēgēsas, didaxas,

For from the beginning, when our forefather Abraham was turning to the way of truth, you guided him by a vision, teaching

Gen 15:1 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God guided Abraham from the beginning.

The sentence continues in the next ref. Gen 12:1–3; 15:1.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ἡμῶν» ᾿Δβραὰμ → ἡμῶν Ἀβραὰμ; ὦ δήγησας → ὡδήγησας.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.33.4 (Funk 1:424; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-33-4). (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.

7.33.5Funk 1:424–426

τι ποτέ ἐστιν ὃ αἰὼν οὗτος· καὶ τῆς μὲν γνώσεως αὐτοῦ προώδευσεν ἡ πίστις, τῆς δὲ πίστεως ἀκόλουθος ἦν ἡ συνθήκη· εἶπας γάρ· Ποιήσω τὸ σπέρμα σου ὡς τοὺς ἀστέρας τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ὡς τὴν ἄμμον τὴν παρὰ τὸ χεῖλος τῆς θαλάσσης. ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τὸν Ἰσαὰκ αὐτῷ δωρησάμενος καὶ ὅμοιον αὐτὸν εἰδὼς ἐκείνου τῷ τρόπῳ, καὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπεκλήθης θεὸς εἰπών· Ἔσομαι σου θεὸς καὶ τοῦ σπέρματός σου μετὰ σέ· καὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν Ἰακὼβ ἐπὶ Μεσοποταμίαν στελλομένου, δείξας τὸν Χριστόν, δι᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐλάλησας εἰπών· Ἰδοὺ ἐγώ εἰμι μετὰ σοῦ καὶ αὐξανῶ σε καὶ πληθυνῶ σε σφόδρα.

ti pote estin ho aiōn houtos; kai tēs men gnōseōs autou proōdeusen hē pistis, tēs de pisteōs akolouthos ēn hē synthēkē; eipas gar; Poiēsō to sperma sou hōs tous asteras tou ouranou kai hōs tēn ammon tēn para to cheilos tēs thalassēs. alla mēn kai ton Isaak autǭ dōrēsamenos kai homoion auton eidōs ekeinou tǭ tropǭ, kai autou epeklēthēs theos eipōn; Esomai sou theos kai tou spermatos sou meta se; kai tou patros hēmōn Iakōb epi Mesopotamian stellomenou, deixas ton Christon, di᾽ autou elalēsas eipōn; Idou egō eimi meta sou kai auxanō se kai plēthynō se sphodra.

what this age is; and faith advanced from his knowledge, and the covenant followed upon his faith; for you said, “I will make your seed like the stars of heaven and like the sand on the shore of the sea.” [5] And moreover, having given him Isaac and knowing him to be like that man in character, you were called his God too, saying, “I will be your God and the God of your seed after you”; and when our father Jacob was being sent to Mesopotamia, you showed him the Christ and spoke through him, saying, “Behold, I am with you, and I will increase you and multiply you exceedingly.”

Gen 22:17 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 17:7 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 28:15 (quotation, medium confidence) · Gen 48:4 (quotation, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God guided Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and made his covenant with them.

The section number 5 was lost in the OCR; “[5]” marks where it begins. Gen 22:17; 17:7; 28:15; 48:4.

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; OCR: stray marks and section number removed): ς" → ς· ; η" → η· ; ydo' ,Iloujoo → γάρ· Ποιήσω; “-. 5. ἀλλὰ → . ἀλλὰ; xoi → καὶ; ἐπεχλήθης → ἐπεκλήθης; " ,Ecouoi → · Ἔσομαι; G£' → σέ·; δὶ αὐτοῦ → δι᾽ αὐτοῦ; " ,, → · ; α“. → α..

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.33.5 (Funk 1:424–426; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-33-5). (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.

7.33.6Funk 1:426

καὶ οὕτως εἶπας πρὸς Μωϋσῆν τὸν πιστὸν καὶ ἅγιόν σου θεράποντα ἐπὶ τῆς ὀπτασίας τῆς βάτου: Ἐγώ εἰμι ὃ ὦν, τοῦτό μοι ὄνομα αἰώνιον καὶ μνημόσυνον γενεαῖς γενεῶν.

kai houtōs eipas pros Mōÿsēn ton piston kai hagion sou theraponta epi tēs optasias tēs batou: Egō eimi ho ōn, touto moi onoma aiōnion kai mnēmosynon geneais geneōn.

And so you said to Moses, your faithful and holy servant, at the vision of the bush, “I am He Who Is; this is my eternal name and my memorial for generations of generations.”

Exod 3:14–15 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God revealed his name to Moses at the bush.

Exod 3:14–15 (LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): Μωὺῦσῆν → Μωϋσῆν; ,Eyo) → Ἐγώ; ν“. → ν..

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.33.6 (Funk 1:426; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-33-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.33.7Funk 1:426

ὑπέρμαχε γένους Ἀβραάμ, εὐλογητὸς εἶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας.

hypermache genous Abraam, eulogētos ei eis tous aiōnas.

Defender of the race of Abraham, blessed are you forever.

Notes and citation

Summary: The prayer ends blessing God, defender of Abraham's race.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Aflgaáu → Ἀβραάμ; tí εἰς τοὺς: → εἶ εἰς τοὺς.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.33.7 (Funk 1:426; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-33-7). (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.

Apostolic 7, chapter 34

7.34.1Funk 1:426

Εὐλογητὸς εἶ, κύριε βασιλεῦ τῶν αἰώνων, ὃ διὰ Χριστοῦ ποιήσας τὰ ὅλα καὶ δι᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐν ἀρχῇ κοσμήσας τὰ ἀκατασκεύαστα, ὃ διαχωρίσας ὕδατα ὑδάτων στερεώματι καὶ πνεῦμα ζωτικὸν τούτοις ἐμβαλών, ὁ γῆν ἑδράσας καὶ οὐρανὸν ἐκτείνας καὶ τὴν ἑκάστου τῶν κτισμάτων ἀκριβῆ διάταξιν κοσμήσας.

Eulogētos ei, kyrie basileu tōn aiōnōn, ho dia Christou poiēsas ta hola kai di᾽ autou en archę̄ kosmēsas ta akataskeuasta, ho diachōrisas hydata hydatōn stereōmati kai pneuma zōtikon toutois embalōn, ho gēn hedrasas kai ouranon ekteinas kai tēn hekastou tōn ktismatōn akribē diataxin kosmēsas.

Blessed are you, O Lord, “King of the ages,” who through Christ made all things, and through him in the beginning set in order what was unformed; who divided waters from waters by a firmament and put a life-giving spirit into them; who founded the earth and stretched out the heaven, and set in order the exact arrangement of each of the creatures.

1 Tim 1:17 (quotation, medium confidence) · Gen 1:2 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 1:6–7 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God is blessed for creating all things through Christ.

1 Tim 1:17; Gen 1:2, 6–7.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,,ιβασιλεῦ → βασιλεῦ; ν“, → ν,; δί αὐτοῦ → δι᾽ αὐτοῦ; ἀκατασκχεύαστα → ἀκατασκεύαστα; χτισμάτων → κτισμάτων.

Topics: Prayer, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.34.1 (Funk 1:426; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-34-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.34.2Funk 1:426

σῇ γὰρ ἐνθυμήσει, δέσποτα, κόσμος πεφαίδρυται, οὐρανὸς δὲ ὡς καμάρα πεπηγμένος ἠγλάϊσται ἄστροις ἕνεκεν παραμυθίας τοῦ σκότους, φῶς δὲ καὶ ἥλιος εἰς ἡμέρας καὶ καρπῶν γονὴν γεγένηνται, σελήνη δὲ εἰς καιρῶν τροπὴν αὔξουσα καὶ μειουμένη, καὶ νὺξ ὠνομάζετο καὶ ἡμέρα προσηγορεύετο, στερέωμα δὲ διὰ μέσων τῶν ἀβύσσων ἐδείκνυτο καὶ εἶπας συναχθῆναι τὰ ὕδατα καὶ ὀφθῆναι τὴν ξηράν.

sę̄ gar enthymēsei, despota, kosmos pephaidrytai, ouranos de hōs kamara pepēgmenos ēglaïstai astrois heneken paramythias tou skotous, phōs de kai hēlios eis hēmeras kai karpōn gonēn gegenēntai, selēnē de eis kairōn tropēn auxousa kai meioumenē, kai nyx ōnomazeto kai hēmera prosēgoreueto, stereōma de dia mesōn tōn abyssōn edeiknyto kai eipas synachthēnai ta hydata kai ophthēnai tēn xēran.

For by your design, Master, the world has been made bright; and heaven, fixed “like a vault,” has been adorned with stars to comfort the darkness; and light and the sun came to be for the days and for the bringing forth of fruits; and the moon, waxing and waning, for the change of seasons; and night was named and day was called; and the firmament was shown in the midst of the abysses; “and you said that the waters should be gathered and the dry land appear.”

Isa 40:22 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 1:3–10 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 1:14–16 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God's design made the heavens, sun, moon, day and night, and gathered the waters.

Isa 40:22 (LXX); Gen 1:3–10, 14–16.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): (οὐρανὸς → οὐρανὸς; α““ → α ; ἕνεχεν → ἕνεκεν; σχότους → σκότους; γεγέγηνται → γεγένηνται; ὁὲ → δὲ ; ,,κ → κ; ν". → ν..

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.34.2 (Funk 1:426; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-34-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.34.3Funk 1:426

αὐτὴν δὲ τὴν θάλασσαν πῶς ἂν τις ἐκφράσειεν; ἥτις ἔρχεται μὲν ἀπὸ πελάγους μαινομένη, παλινδρομεῖ δὲ ἀπὸ ψάμμου τῇ σῇ προσταγῇ κωλυομένη εἶπες γὰρ ἐν αὐτῇ συντριβήσεσθαι αὐτῆς τὰ κύματα, ζώοις δὲ μικροῖς καὶ μεγάλοις καὶ πλοίοις πορευτὴν αὐτὴν ἐποίησας.

autēn de tēn thalassan pōs an tis ekphraseien? hētis erchetai men apo pelagous mainomenē, palindromei de apo psammou tę̄ sę̄ prostagę̄ kōlyomenē eipes gar en autę̄ syntribēsesthai autēs ta kymata, zōois de mikrois kai megalois kai ploiois poreutēn autēn epoiēsas.

And the sea itself, who could describe it? It comes raging from the deep, but runs back from the sand, restrained by your command; for you said that “its waves would be broken within it,” and you made it passable “for living things small and great, and for ships.”

Job 38:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 104:25–26 (103:25-Ps LXX) (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God restrains the sea and made it a path for creatures and ships.

Job 38:11; Ps 104:25–26 (103:25–26 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ἐχφράσειεν → ἐκφράσειεν; ,,.ἐν → ἐν; ς“ → ς ; ,,μ → μ; ν““ → ν .

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.34.3 (Funk 1:426; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-34-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.34.4Funk 1:426

εἶτ᾽ ἐχλοαίνετο γῆ, παντοίοις ἄνθεσι καταγραφομένη καὶ ποικιλίᾳ δένδρων διαφόρων· παμφαεῖς τε φωστῆρες τούτων τιθηνοί, ἀπαράβατον σώζοντες τὸν δόλιχον καὶ κατ᾽ οὐδὲν παραλλάσσοντες τῆς σῆς προσταγῆς, ἀλλ᾽ ὅπη ἂν κελεύσῃς, ταύτῃ ἀνίσχουσι καὶ δύουσιν εἰς σημεῖα καιρῶν καὶ ἐνιαυτῶν, ἀμειβόμενοι τὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὑπηρεσίαν.

eit᾽ echloaineto gē, pantoiois anthesi katagraphomenē kai poikilią dendrōn diaphorōn; pamphaeis te phōstēres toutōn tithēnoi, aparabaton sōzontes ton dolichon kai kat᾽ ouden parallassontes tēs sēs prostagēs, all᾽ hopē an keleusę̄s, tautę̄ anischousi kai dyousin eis sēmeia kairōn kai eniautōn, ameibomenoi tēn tōn anthrōpōn hypēresian.

Then the earth grew green, painted with flowers of every kind and with a variety of different trees; and the all-shining luminaries, their nurses, keep their course without transgression and in nothing depart from your command, but wherever you bid, there they rise and set, for signs of seasons and years, repaying the service of men.

Gen 1:11–18 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The earth bloomed and the luminaries keep their ordered courses.

Gen 1:11–18.

Notes on the original text

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

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.34.4 (Funk 1:426; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-34-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.34.5Funk 1:426–428

ἔπειτα διαφόρων ζώων κατεσκευάζετο γένη, χερσαίων, ἐνύδρων, ἀεροπόρων, ἀμφιβίων, καὶ τῆς σῆς προνοίας ἡ ἔντεχνος σοφία τὴν κατάλληλον ἑκάστῳ πρόνοιαν δωρεῖται᾽ ὥσπερ γὰρ διάφορα γένη οὐκ ἠτόνησεν παραγαγεῖν, οὕτως οὐδὲ διάφορον πρόνοιαν ἑκάστου ποιήσασθαι κατωλιγώρησεν.

epeita diaphorōn zōōn kateskeuazeto genē, chersaiōn, enydrōn, aeroporōn, amphibiōn, kai tēs sēs pronoias hē entechnos sophia tēn katallēlon hekastǭ pronoian dōreitai᾽ hōsper gar diaphora genē ouk ētonēsen paragagein, houtōs oude diaphoron pronoian hekastou poiēsasthai katōligōrēsen.

Then the kinds of various animals were fashioned, of land, of water, of air, amphibious; and the skilled wisdom of your providence gives each its fitting provision; for as it did not fail to bring forth different kinds, so it did not neglect to make a different provision for each.

Gen 1:20–25 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God made the animals and provides for each kind.

Gen 1:20–25.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): κατεσχευάζετο → κατεσκευάζετο; ἣ ἔντεχνος → ἡ ἔντεχνος.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.34.5 (Funk 1:426–428; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-34-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.34.6Funk 1:428

καὶ τέλος τῆς δημιουργίας τὸ λογικὸν ζῶον, τὸν κοσμοπολίτην, τῇ σῇ σοφίᾳ διαταξάμενος κατεσκεύασας εἰπών· Ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον κατ᾽ εἰκόνα καὶ καθʼ ὁμοίωσιν ἡμετέραν, κόσμου κόσμον αὐτὸν ἀναδείξας, ἐκ μὲν τῶν τεσσάρων σωμάτων διαπλάσας αὐτῷ τὸ σῶμα, κατασκευάσας δ᾽ αὐτῷ τὴν ψυχὴν ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος, αἴσθησιν δὲ πένταθλον αὐτῷ χαρισάμενος καὶ νοῦν τὸν τῆς ψυχῆς ἡνίοχον ταῖς αἰσθήσεσιν ἐπιστήσας.

kai telos tēs dēmiourgias to logikon zōon, ton kosmopolitēn, tę̄ sę̄ sophią diataxamenos kateskeuasas eipōn; Poiēsōmen anthrōpon kat᾽ eikona kai kathʼ homoiōsin hēmeteran, kosmou kosmon auton anadeixas, ek men tōn tessarōn sōmatōn diaplasas autǭ to sōma, kataskeuasas d᾽ autǭ tēn psychēn ek tou mē ontos, aisthēsin de pentathlon autǭ charisamenos kai noun ton tēs psychēs hēniochon tais aisthēsesin epistēsas.

And as the goal of creation, having given command to your Wisdom, you fashioned the rational living being, the citizen of the world, saying, “Let us make man according to our image and likeness,” showing him forth as the adornment of the world; forming his body for him from the four elements, and fashioning his soul for him out of what was not, granting him a fivefold sense, and setting over the senses the mind, the charioteer of the soul.

Gen 1:26 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Man, made in God's image with body, soul and mind, crowns creation.

Your Wisdom: the Son, to whom the Father speaks in Gen 1:26 (cf. 5.7.20).
Gen 1:26.

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): χοσμοπολίτην → κοσμοπολίτην; " ,, → · ; xar εἰχόνα → κατ᾽ εἰκόνα; ν“, → ν,.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.34.6 (Funk 1:428; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-34-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.34.7Funk 1:428

καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσι τούτοις, δέσποτα κύριε, τίς ἐπαξίως διηγήσεται νεφῶν ὀμβροτόχων φοράν, ἀστραπῆς ἔκλαμψιν, βροντῶν πάταγον, εἰς τροφῆς χορηγίαν καταλλήλου καὶ κρᾶσιν ἀέρων παναρμόνιον;

kai epi pasi toutois, despota kyrie, tis epaxiōs diēgēsetai nephōn ombrotochōn phoran, astrapēs eklampsin, brontōn patagon, eis trophēs chorēgian katallēlou kai krasin aerōn panarmonion?

And besides all these, Master Lord, who can worthily describe the movement of rain-bearing clouds, the flash of lightning, the crash of thunder, for the supply of fitting food and the all-harmonious blending of the airs?

Notes and citation

Summary: No one can worthily describe God's works in the weather.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ἔχλαμψιν → ἔκλαμψιν.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.34.7 (Funk 1:428; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-34-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.34.8Funk 1:428

παρακούσαντα δὲ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐμμίσθου ζωῆς ἐστέρησας, οὐκ εἰς τὸ παντελὲς ἀφανίσας, ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ πρὸς ὀλίγον κοιμίσας, ὅρκῳ εἰς παλιγγενεσίαν ἐκάλεσας, ὅρον θανάτου ἔλυσας, ὃ ζωοποιὸς τῶν νεκρῶν διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τῆς ἐλπίδος ἡμῶν.

parakousanta de ton anthrōpon emmisthou zōēs esterēsas, ouk eis to panteles aphanisas, alla chronǭ pros oligon koimisas, horkǭ eis palingenesian ekalesas, horon thanatou elysas, ho zōopoios tōn nekrōn dia Iēsou Christou tēs elpidos hēmōn.

And when man disobeyed, you deprived him of the life that was his reward, not destroying him utterly, but putting him to sleep for a little while by time; by an oath you called him to rebirth, you loosed the bond of death, you who give life to the dead, through Jesus Christ our hope.

Gen 3:19 (allusion, medium confidence) · Heb 6:17 (echo, low confidence) · 1 Tim 1:1 (quotation, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God punished man's disobedience with death but promised rebirth through Christ.

Gen 3:19; Heb 6:17; 1 Tim 1:1.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): νεχρῶν διὰ, → νεκρῶν διὰ; ν“. → ν..

Topics: Prayer, Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.34.8 (Funk 1:428; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-34-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 35

7.35.1Funk 1:428

Μέγας εἶ, κύριε παντοκράτορ, καὶ μεγάλη ἡ ἰσχύς σου καὶ τῆς συνέσεως σου οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμός κτίστα, σωτήρ, πλούσιε ἐν χάρισιν, μακρόθυμε καὶ ἐλέους χορηγέ, ὃ μὴ ἀφιστῶν τῶν σῶν κτισμάτων τὴν σωτηρίαν· φύσει γὰρ ἀγαθὸς ὑπάρχεις, φείδῃ δὲ ἁμαρτανόντων, εἰς μετάνοιαν προσκαλούμενος· οἰκτίρμων γὰρ σοῦ ἡ νουθέτησις. πῶς γὰρ ἂν ὑπέστημεν ἐπειγομένην ἀπαιτούμενοι κρίσιν, ὁπότε μακροθυμούμενοι μόλις ἀνανεύομεν τῆς ἀσθενείας;

Megas ei, kyrie pantokrator, kai megalē hē ischys sou kai tēs syneseōs sou ouk estin arithmos ktista, sōtēr, plousie en charisin, makrothyme kai eleous chorēge, ho mē aphistōn tōn sōn ktismatōn tēn sōtērian; physei gar agathos hyparcheis, pheidę̄ de hamartanontōn, eis metanoian proskaloumenos; oiktirmōn gar sou hē nouthetēsis. pōs gar an hypestēmen epeigomenēn apaitoumenoi krisin, hopote makrothymoumenoi molis ananeuomen tēs astheneias?

“Great are you, O Lord almighty, and great is your strength, and of your understanding there is no number”; Creator, Savior, rich in graces, long-suffering and giver of mercy, who do not keep salvation away from your creatures; for you are good by nature, and you spare sinners, calling them to repentance; for your admonition is compassionate. For how could we have stood, if we were called to an immediate judgment, when, though treated with long-suffering, we scarcely lift our heads from our weakness?

Ps 147:5 (146:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God is great and patient, calling sinners to repentance.

Ps 147:5 (146:5 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR slip; OCR: κ read as χ; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ,Méyac → Μέγας; παντοχράτορ, ,xol → παντοκράτορ, καὶ; ἣ ἰσχύς → ἡ ἰσχύς; ς““ → ς ; μακρύθυμε xol → μακρόθυμε καὶ; ν" → ν· ; " οἰχτίρμων → · οἰκτίρμων; ἢ νουθέτησις → ἡ νουθέτησις; μαχροθυμούμενοι → μακροθυμούμενοι.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.35.1 (Funk 1:428; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-35-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.35.2Funk 1:428–430

σοῦ τὸ κράτος ἀνήγγειλαν οἱ οὐρανοὶ καὶ γῆ κραδαινομένη τὴν ἀσφάλειαν ἐπ᾽ οὐδενὸς κρεμαμένη. θάλασσα κυμαινομένη καὶ μυρίαν βόσκουσα ζώων ἀγέλην πεπέδηται ἄμμῳ, τὴν σὴν βούλησιν πεφρικυῖα, καὶ πάντας ἀναγκάζει βοᾶν· Ὡς ἐμεγαλύνθη τὰ ἔργα σου, κύριε᾽ πάντα ἐν σοφίᾳ ἐποίησας, ἐπληρώθη ἡ γῆ τῆς κτίσεως σου.

sou to kratos anēngeilan hoi ouranoi kai gē kradainomenē tēn asphaleian ep᾽ oudenos kremamenē. thalassa kymainomenē kai myrian boskousa zōōn agelēn pepedētai ammǭ, tēn sēn boulēsin pephrikuia, kai pantas anankazei boan; Hōs emegalynthē ta erga sou, kyrie᾽ panta en sophią epoiēsas, eplērōthē hē gē tēs ktiseōs sou.

The heavens have proclaimed your might, and the earth, shaken and hanging on nothing, your steadfastness; the sea, surging and feeding a countless herd of living things, is bound by the sand, trembling at your will, and compels all to cry out, “How great are your works, O Lord! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is filled with your creation.”

Ps 19:1 (18:2 LXX) (allusion, high confidence) · Job 26:7 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 104:24 (103:24 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Heaven, earth and sea proclaim God's might.

A footnote reference printed in the text (Ps 18:2) is removed. Ps 19:1 (18:2 LXX); Job 26:7; quotation: Ps 104:24 (103:24 LXX).

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: footnote reference removed): κρεμαμένη. 25 Ps. 18, 2. θάλασσα → κρεμαμένη. θάλασσα; " »€c → · Ὡς; iv σοφίᾳ → ἐν σοφίᾳ; υ“. → υ..

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.35.2 (Funk 1:428–430; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-35-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.35.3Funk 1:430

καὶ στρατὸς ἀγγέλων φλεγόμενος καὶ πνεύματα νοερὰ λέγουσιν, Εἷς ἅγιος τῷ φελμουνί, καὶ Σεραφὶμ ἅγια ἅμα τοῖς Χερουβὶμ τοῖς ἑξαπτερύγοις σοι τὴν ἐπινίκιον ᾠδὴν ψάλλοντα ἀσιγήτοις φωναῖς βοῶσιν· , Ἅγιος, ἅγιος, ἅγιος κύριος Σαβαώθ·, πλήρης ὃ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ τῆς δόξης σου, καὶ τὰ ἕτερα τῶν ταγμάτων πλήθη, ἀρχάγγελοι, θρόνοι, κυριότητες, ἀρχαί, ἐξουσίαι, δυνάμεις, ἐπιβοῶντα λέγουσιν, Εὐλογημένη ἡ δόξα κυρίου ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτοῦ.

kai stratos angelōn phlegomenos kai pneumata noera legousin, Heis hagios tǭ phelmouni, kai Seraphim hagia hama tois Cheroubim tois hexapterygois soi tēn epinikion ǭdēn psallonta asigētois phōnais boōsin; , Hagios, hagios, hagios kyrios Sabaōth;, plērēs ho ouranos kai hē gē tēs doxēs sou, kai ta hetera tōn tagmatōn plēthē, archangeloi, thronoi, kyriotētes, archai, exousiai, dynameis, epiboōnta legousin, Eulogēmenē hē doxa kyriou ek tou topou autou.

And the army of angels, aflame, and the intellectual spirits say, “One holy one to Phelmouni”; and the holy Seraphim together with the six-winged Cherubim, singing to you the song of victory, cry out with never-silent voices, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord of hosts; heaven and earth are full of your glory”; and the multitudes of the other orders, archangels, “thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities,” powers, cry aloud and say, “Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place.”

Dan 8:13 (quotation, medium confidence) · Isa 6:2–3 (quotation, high confidence) · Col 1:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Ezek 3:12 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: All the orders of angels praise God with the threefold Holy.

“Phelmouni” is the LXX transliteration in Dan 8:13 (a Hebrew word for “a certain one”); the word is garbled in the scan and read after Daniel. Isa 6:2–3; Col 1:16; Eph 1:21; Ezek 3:12.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): υσιν", Εἷ → υσιν, Εἷ; deAuovrt", xal → φελμουνί, καὶ; oov ψάλλοντα → ᾠδὴν ψάλλοντα; ν" → ν· ; ΣΣαβαώθʼ → Σαβαώθ·; υ“, → υ,; ,θ → θ; ι“, → ι,; υσιν", Εὐ → υσιν, Εὐ; ῦ“. → ῦ..

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.35.3 (Funk 1:430; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-35-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.35.4Funk 1:430

Ἰσραὴλ δέ, ἡ ἐπίγειός σου ἐκκλησία ἡ ἐξ ἐθνῶν, ταῖς κατ᾽ οὐρανὸν δυνάμεσιν ἀμιλλωμένη νυκτὶ καὶ ἡμέρᾳ ἐν καρδίᾳ πλήρει καὶ ψυχῇ θελούσῃ ψάλλει· Τὸ ἅρμα τοῦ θεοῦ μυριοπλάσιον, χιλιάδες εὐθηνούντων, κύριος ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐν Σιναΐ, ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ.

Israēl de, hē epigeios sou ekklēsia hē ex ethnōn, tais kat᾽ ouranon dynamesin amillōmenē nykti kai hēmerą en kardią plērei kai psychę̄ thelousę̄ psallei; To harma tou theou myrioplasion, chiliades euthēnountōn, kyrios en autois en Sinaï, en tǭ hagiǭ.

And Israel, your church on earth taken from the Gentiles, vying night and day with the powers in heaven, “with a full heart and a willing soul” sings, “The chariot of God is ten-thousandfold, thousands of those who prosper; the Lord is among them in Sinai, in the holy place.”

1 Chr 28:9 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 68:17 (67:18 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The church on earth joins the heavenly praise.

1 Chr 28:9; Ps 68:17 (67:18 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): ,,ἐ → ἐ; ῃ“ → ῃ ; " ,, → · ; Goua → ἅρμα; ῳ“. → ῳ..

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.35.4 (Funk 1:430; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-35-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.35.5Funk 1:430

οἶδεν οὐρανὸς τὸν ἐπὶ μηδενὸς αὐτὸν καμαρώσαντα ὡς λιθόκυβον καὶ γῆν καὶ ὕδωρ ἑαυτοῖς ἑνώσαντα, καὶ ἀέρα διαχέαντα ζωοτρόφον, καὶ τούτῳ πῦρ συμπλέξαντα εἰς θάλπος καὶ σκότους παραμυθίαν ἐκπλήσσει χορὸς ἀστέρων τὸν ἀριθμήσαντα σημαίνων καὶ τὸν ὀνομάσαντα δεικνύων, ζῶα τὸν ψυχώσαντα, δένδρα τὸν ἐκφύσαντα· ἅπερ ἅπαντα τῷ σῷ λόγῳ γενόμενα παριστᾷ τῆς σῆς δυνάμεως τὸ κράτος.

oiden ouranos ton epi mēdenos auton kamarōsanta hōs lithokybon kai gēn kai hydōr heautois henōsanta, kai aera diacheanta zōotrophon, kai toutǭ pyr symplexanta eis thalpos kai skotous paramythian ekplēssei choros asterōn ton arithmēsanta sēmainōn kai ton onomasanta deiknyōn, zōa ton psychōsanta, dendra ton ekphysanta; haper hapanta tǭ sǭ logǭ genomena paristą tēs sēs dynameōs to kratos.

Heaven knows him who arched it over nothing “like a vault of stone,” and joined earth and water to one another, and poured out the life-sustaining air, and interwove fire with it for warmth and comfort in darkness. The chorus of stars strikes with wonder, signifying him who numbered them and showing him who named them; the animals show him who gave them life, the trees him who made them grow; all of which, having come to be by your word, display the might of your power.

Isa 40:22 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 147:4 (146:4 LXX) (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: All creation testifies to its Maker.

Isa 40:22 (LXX); Ps 147:4 (146:4 LXX). The phrase “like a vault of stone” is garbled in the scan and read by sense.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,,(ὧὧῶΦξ λιθόχυβον“,, → ὡς λιθόκυβον; ξαυτοῖς → ἑαυτοῖς; ἐχπλήσσει → ἐκπλήσσει; ἐκφύσανταʼ → ἐκφύσαντα·; χράτος → κράτος.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.35.5 (Funk 1:430; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-35-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.35.6Funk 1:430

διὸ καὶ ὀφείλει πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν στέρνων σοὶ διὰ Χριστοῦ τὸν ὑπὲρ πάντων ὕμνον ἀναπέμπειν, διὰ σὲ τῶν ἁπάντων κρατῶν.

dio kai opheilei pas anthrōpos ex autōn tōn sternōn soi dia Christou ton hyper pantōn hymnon anapempein, dia se tōn hapantōn kratōn.

Therefore every man ought to send up to you, through Christ, from his very breast the hymn on behalf of all, since through you he rules over all things.

Gen 1:28 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Every person owes God a hymn through Christ.

Cf. Gen 1:28.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.35.6 (Funk 1:430; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-35-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.35.7Funk 1:430–432

σὺ γὰρ εἶ ὃ χρηστὸς ἐν εὐεργεσίαις καὶ φιλόδωρος ἐν οἰκτιρμοῖς, ὁ μόνος παντοχράτωρ᾽ ὅτε γὰρ θέλεις, πάρεστί σοι τὸ δύνασθαι· τὸ γὰρ σὸν αἰώνιον κράτος καὶ φλόγα καταψύχει καὶ λέοντας φιμοῖ καὶ κήτη καταπραῦνει καὶ νοσοῦντας ἐγείρει καὶ δυνάμεις μετατρέπει καὶ στρατὸν ἐχθρῶν καὶ λαὸν ἀριθμούμενον ἐν τῷ ὑπερηφανεύεσθαι καταστρώννυσιν.

sy gar ei ho chrēstos en euergesiais kai philodōros en oiktirmois, ho monos pantochratōr᾽ hote gar theleis, paresti soi to dynasthai; to gar son aiōnion kratos kai phloga katapsychei kai leontas phimoi kai kētē katapraunei kai nosountas egeirei kai dynameis metatrepei kai straton echthrōn kai laon arithmoumenon en tǭ hyperēphaneuesthai katastrōnnysin.

For you are kind in benefactions and generous in compassions, the only almighty one; for when you will, the power is at hand; for your eternal might cools flame and muzzles lions and calms sea monsters and raises the sick and overturns powers and lays low the army of enemies and a people numbered in arrogance.

Dan 3:25 (allusion, medium confidence) · Dan 6:22 (allusion, medium confidence) · 2 Kgs 19:35 (allusion, medium confidence) · 2 Sam 24:1–15 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God's eternal might delivers his people.

Dan 3; 6; Jonah 2; 2 Kgs 19:35; 2 Sam 24.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ι" → ι· ; χήτη → κήτη; xoi → καὶ.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.35.7 (Funk 1:430–432; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-35-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.35.8Funk 1:432

σὺ εἶ ὁ ἐν οὐρανῷ, ὃ ἐπὶ γῆς, ὃ ἐν θαλάσσῃ, ὃ ἐν περατουμένοις ὑπὸ μηδενὸς περατούμενος, τῆς γὰρ μεγαλοσύνης σου οὐκ ἔστιν πέρας. μὴ γὰρ ἡμέτερόν ἐστιν τοῦτο, δέσποτα, τοῦ θεράποντός σου λόγιόν ἐστιν φάσκοντος᾽ , Καὶ γνώσῃ τῇ καρδίᾳ σου, ὅτι κύριος ὃ θεός σου, θεὸς ἐν οὐρανῷ ἄνω καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς κάτω, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἔτι πλὴν αὐτοῦ.

sy ei ho en ouranǭ, ho epi gēs, ho en thalassę̄, ho en peratoumenois hypo mēdenos peratoumenos, tēs gar megalosynēs sou ouk estin peras. mē gar hēmeteron estin touto, despota, tou therapontos sou logion estin phaskontos᾽ , Kai gnōsę̄ tę̄ kardią sou, hoti kyrios ho theos sou, theos en ouranǭ anō kai epi gēs katō, kai ouk estin eti plēn autou.

You are he who is in heaven, he who is on earth, he who is in the sea, he who is in things bounded, yourself bounded by nothing; “for of your majesty there is no limit.” For this is not our word, Master, but the oracle of your servant, who says, “And you shall know in your heart that the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above and on earth below, and there is none other besides him.”

Ps 145:3 (144:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 4:39 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God is everywhere and unbounded, the only God.

Ps 145:3 (144:3 LXX); Deut 4:39.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,τ → τ; ς““ → ς ; ,μ → μ; Gov → σου; ς“. → ς.; ῦ“. → ῦ..

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.35.8 (Funk 1:432; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-35-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.35.9Funk 1:432

οὐδὲ γὰρ ἔστι θεὸς πλὴν σοῦ μόνου, ἅγιος οὐκ ἔστι πλὴν σοῦ, κύριος θεὸς γνώσεων, θεὸς ἁγίων, ἅγιος ὑπὲρ πάντας ἁγίους, οἱ γὰρ ἡγιασμένοι ὑπὸ τὰς χεῖράς σού εἰσιν· ἔνδοξος καὶ ὑπερυψούμενος, ἀόρατος τῇ φύσει, ἀνεξιχνίαστος κρίμασιν· οὗ ἀνενδεὴς ἡ ζωή, ἄτρεπτος καὶ ἀνελλιπὴς ἡ διαμονή, ἀκάματος ἡ ἐνέργεια, ἀπερίγραφος ἡ μεγαλειότης, ἀέναος ἡ εὐπρέπεια, ἀπρόσιτος ἡ κατοικία, ἀμετανάστευτος ἡ κατασκήνωσις, ἄναρχος ἡ γνῶσις, ἀναλλοίωτος ἡ ἀλήθεια, ἀμεσίτευτον τὸ ἔργον, ἀνεπιβούλευτον τὸ κράτος, ἀδιάδοχος ἡ μοναρχία, ἀτελεύτητος ἡ βασιλεία, ἀνανταγώνιστος ἡ ἰσχύς, πολυάριθμος ἡ στρατιά. σὺ γὰρ εἶ ὃ σοφίας πατήρ, ὃ δημιουργίας τῆς διὰ μεσίτου κτίστης ὡς αἴτιος, ὃ προνοίας χορηγός, ὁ νόμων δοτήρ, ὁ ἐνδείας πληρωτής, ὃ τῶν ἀσεβῶν τιμωρὸς καὶ τῶν δικαίων μισθαποδότης, ὁ τοῦ Χριστοῦ θεὸς καὶ πατὴρ καὶ τῶν εἰς αὐτὸν εὐσεβούντων κύριος, οὗ ἀδιάψευστος ἡ ἐπαγγελία, ἀδωροδόκητος ἡ κρίσις, ἀμετάπιστος ἡ γνώμη, ἄπαυστος ἡ εὐσέβεια, ἀΐδιος ἡ εὐχαριστία, δι᾽ οὗ σοι καὶ ἡ ἐπάξιος προσκύνησις ὀφείλεται παρὰ πάσης λογικῆς καὶ ἁγίας φύσεως.

oude gar esti theos plēn sou monou, hagios ouk esti plēn sou, kyrios theos gnōseōn, theos hagiōn, hagios hyper pantas hagious, hoi gar hēgiasmenoi hypo tas cheiras sou eisin; endoxos kai hyperypsoumenos, aoratos tę̄ physei, anexichniastos krimasin; hou anendeēs hē zōē, atreptos kai anellipēs hē diamonē, akamatos hē energeia, aperigraphos hē megaleiotēs, aenaos hē euprepeia, aprositos hē katoikia, ametanasteutos hē kataskēnōsis, anarchos hē gnōsis, analloiōtos hē alētheia, amesiteuton to ergon, anepibouleuton to kratos, adiadochos hē monarchia, ateleutētos hē basileia, anantagōnistos hē ischys, polyarithmos hē stratia. sy gar ei ho sophias patēr, ho dēmiourgias tēs dia mesitou ktistēs hōs aitios, ho pronoias chorēgos, ho nomōn dotēr, ho endeias plērōtēs, ho tōn asebōn timōros kai tōn dikaiōn misthapodotēs, ho tou Christou theos kai patēr kai tōn eis auton eusebountōn kyrios, hou adiapseustos hē epangelia, adōrodokētos hē krisis, ametapistos hē gnōmē, apaustos hē eusebeia, aïdios hē eucharistia, di᾽ hou soi kai hē epaxios proskynēsis opheiletai para pasēs logikēs kai hagias physeōs.

For there is no God besides you alone; there is none holy besides you, “the Lord, the God of knowledge,” God of the holy ones, holy above all holy ones; for “those who are sanctified are under your hands”; glorious and highly exalted; invisible in nature, unsearchable in judgments; whose life is without need, whose permanence is unchangeable and unfailing, whose activity is tireless, whose greatness is unbounded, whose beauty is everlasting, whose dwelling is inaccessible, whose habitation is unmovable, whose knowledge is without beginning, whose truth is unalterable, whose work needs no intermediary, whose might cannot be plotted against, whose monarchy has no successor, whose kingdom is without end, whose strength has no rival, whose army is very numerous. [10] For you are the Father of wisdom, the Creator, as cause, of the creation made through a mediator, the giver of providence, the giver of laws, the filler of need, the punisher of the ungodly and the rewarder of the righteous, the God and Father of Christ and the Lord of those who are pious toward him; whose promise is infallible, whose judgment is incorruptible, whose purpose is unalterable, whose piety is unceasing, whose thanksgiving is everlasting; through whom worthy adoration is owed to you from every rational and holy nature.

1 Sam 2:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 33:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 11:33 (allusion, medium confidence) · 1 Tim 6:16 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God alone is holy, and his attributes are without limit; he is the Father of Christ, through whom he created all things.

The section number 10 was lost in the OCR; “[10]” marks where it begins.
The Father is “Creator, as cause,” of the creation made through the Son as mediator: translated as written. 1 Sam 2:3; Deut 33:3; Rom 11:33; 1 Tim 6:16.

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: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: ἡ; section number (10) removed; σὺ): (κύριος → κύριος; ν“, → ν,; ,,οἷʼ yàg ,, → οἱ γὰρ ; ιν" ἔ → ιν· ἔ; ς“, → ς,; ιν" ο → ιν· ο; ἀνελλιπὴς 7 διαμονή → ἀνελλιπὴς ἡ διαμονή; ἀπρόσιτος 7j κατοικία, ἀμετανάστευτος 7 κατασκήνωσις → ἀπρόσιτος ἡ κατοικία, ἀμετανάστευτος ἡ κατασκήνωσις; πολυάριθμος 7) στρατιά. το. 60 γὰρ → πολυάριθμος ἡ στρατιά. σὺ γὰρ; δ οὗ σοι → δι᾽ οὗ σοι.

Topics: Prayer, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.35.9 (Funk 1:432; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-35-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 36

7.36.1Funk 1:432–434

Κύριε παντοκράτορ, κόσμον ἔκτισας διὰ Χριστοῦ καὶ σάββατον ὥρισας εἰς μνήμην τούτου, ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ κατέπαυσας ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων εἰς μελέτην τῶν σῶν νόμων, καὶ ἑορτὰς διετάξω εἰς εὐφροσύνην τῶν ἡμετέρων ψυχῶν, ὅπως εἰς μνήμην ἐρχώμεθα τῆς ὑπὸ σοῦ κτισθείσης σοφίας·

Kyrie pantokrator, kosmon ektisas dia Christou kai sabbaton hōrisas eis mnēmēn toutou, hoti en autǭ katepausas apo tōn ergōn eis meletēn tōn sōn nomōn, kai heortas dietaxō eis euphrosynēn tōn hēmeterōn psychōn, hopōs eis mnēmēn erchōmetha tēs hypo sou ktistheisēs sophias;

Lord almighty, you created the world through Christ and appointed the Sabbath in memory of this, because on it you made us rest from our works, for meditation on your laws; and you ordained feasts for the gladness of our souls, so that we might come to the remembrance of the Wisdom created by you:

Gen 2:2–3 (allusion, high confidence) · Prov 8:22 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God appointed the Sabbath and the feasts as memorials of creation and of Wisdom.

“The Wisdom created by you” is the Son (cf. Prov 8:22); translated as written. Gen 2:2–3.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: κ read as χ): παντοχράτορ → παντοκράτορ; ἔχτισας → ἔκτισας; sis μνήμην → εἰς μνήμην; χτισθείσης → κτισθείσης; ας" → ας·.

Topics: Prayer, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.36.1 (Funk 1:432–434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-36-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.36.2Funk 1:434

ὡς δι᾽ ἡμᾶς γένεσιν ὑπέστη τὴν διὰ γυναικός, ἐπεφάνη τῷ βίῳ ἀναδεικνὺς ἑαυτὸν ἐν τῷ βαπτίσματι, ὡς θεός ἐστι καὶ ἄνθρωπος ὃ φανείς, ἔπαθεν δι᾽ ἡμᾶς σῇ συγχωρήσει καὶ ἀπέθανεν καὶ ἀνέστη σῷ κράτει· διὸ καὶ τὴν ἀναστάσιμον ἑορτὴν πανηγυρίζοντες τῇ κυριακῇ χαίρομεν ἐπὶ τῷ νικήσαντι μὲν τὸν θάνατον, φωτίσαντι δὲ ζωὴν καὶ ἀφθαρσίαν· διʼ αὐτοῦ γὰρ προσηγάγου τὰ ἔθνη ἑαυτῷ εἰς λαὸν περιούσιον, τὸν ἀληθινὸν Ἰσραήλ, τὸν θεοφιλῆ, τὸν ὁρῶντα θεόν.

hōs di᾽ hēmas genesin hypestē tēn dia gynaikos, epephanē tǭ biǭ anadeiknys heauton en tǭ baptismati, hōs theos esti kai anthrōpos ho phaneis, epathen di᾽ hēmas sę̄ synchōrēsei kai apethanen kai anestē sǭ kratei; dio kai tēn anastasimon heortēn panēgyrizontes tę̄ kyriakę̄ chairomen epi tǭ nikēsanti men ton thanaton, phōtisanti de zōēn kai aphtharsian; diʼ autou gar prosēgagou ta ethnē heautǭ eis laon periousion, ton alēthinon Israēl, ton theophilē, ton horōnta theon.

how for our sake he underwent birth through a woman; appeared in life, showing himself in his baptism to be God and man, he who appeared; suffered for our sake by your permission, and died, and rose by your might. Therefore we too, celebrating the feast of the resurrection on the Lord's day, rejoice in him who conquered death and “brought to light life and incorruption”; for through him you brought the Gentiles to yourself as “a special people,” the true Israel, beloved of God, who sees God.

Gal 4:4 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Tim 1:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Titus 2:14 (quotation, medium confidence) · Exod 19:5 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The feasts recall Christ's birth, baptism, passion and resurrection; Sunday celebrates his victory over death.

Gal 4:4; 2 Tim 1:10; Titus 2:14; Exod 19:5. “Who sees God” plays on the name Israel.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): δίʼ ἡμᾶς → δι᾽ ἡμᾶς; ἄνθρῶπος → ἄνθρωπος; ἔπαθεν δὲ ἡμᾶς → ἔπαθεν δι᾽ ἡμᾶς; ι" → ι· ; ζωὴ» → ζωὴν; ἀφθαρσίαν““- → ἀφθαρσίαν·; ξαυτῷ → ἑαυτῷ; ,,λ → λ; ν“, → ν,.

Topics: Prayer, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.36.2 (Funk 1:434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-36-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.36.3Funk 1:434

σὺ γάρ, κύριε, καὶ τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν ἐξήγαγες ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου καὶ ἐρρύσω ἐκ καμίνου σιδηρᾶς καὶ ἐκ πηλοῦ καὶ πλινθουργίας, ἐλυτρώσω ἐκ χειρὸς Φαραῶ καὶ τῶν ὑπ᾽ αὐτὸν καὶ διὰ θαλάσσης ὡς διὰ ξηρᾶς αὐτοὺς παρήγαγες καὶ ἐτροποφόρησας αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ παντοίοις ἀγαθοῖς.

sy gar, kyrie, kai tous pateras hēmōn exēgages ek gēs Aigyptou kai errysō ek kaminou sidēras kai ek pēlou kai plinthourgias, elytrōsō ek cheiros Pharaō kai tōn hyp᾽ auton kai dia thalassēs hōs dia xēras autous parēgages kai etropophorēsas autous en tę̄ erēmǭ pantoiois agathois.

For you, Lord, also “brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt” and rescued them “from the iron furnace” and from clay and brickmaking; you redeemed them from the hand of Pharaoh and those under him, and led them through the sea as through dry land, and “bore with them in the wilderness” with all kinds of good things.

Deut 4:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 1:14 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 14:21–22 (allusion, high confidence) · Acts 13:18 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God brought Israel out of Egypt and cared for it in the wilderness.

Deut 4:20; Exod 1:14; Acts 13:18.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ν ,,ἐξ → ν ἐξ; υ“ → υ ; ,.ἔκ καμένου → ἐκ καμίνου; ς“ → ς ; óx αὐτὸν → ὑπ᾽ αὐτὸν; ὶ ,,ἐτ → ὶ ἐτ; ῳ“ → ῳ .

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.36.3 (Funk 1:434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-36-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.36.4Funk 1:434

νόμον αὐτοῖς ἐδωρήσω δέκα λογίων σῇ φωνῇ φθεγχθέντα καὶ χειρὶ σῇ καταγραφέντα᾽ σαββατίζειν ἐνετείλω, οὐ πρόφασιν ἀργίας διδούς, ἀλλ ἀφορμὴν εὐσεβείας, εἰς γνῶσιν τῆς σῆς δυνάμεως, εἰς κώλυσιν κακῶν ὡς ἐν ἱερῷ καθείρξας περιβόλῳ διδασκαλίας χάριν εἰς ἀγαλλίαμα ἑβδομάδος· διὰ τοῦτο ἑβδομὰς μία καὶ ἑβδομάδες ἑπτὰ καὶ μὴν ἔβδομος καὶ ἐνιαυτὸς ἕβδομος καὶ τούτου κατὰ ἀνακύκλησιν ἔτος πεντηκοστὸν εἰς ἄφεσιν.

nomon autois edōrēsō deka logiōn sę̄ phōnę̄ phthenchthenta kai cheiri sę̄ katagraphenta᾽ sabbatizein eneteilō, ou prophasin argias didous, all aphormēn eusebeias, eis gnōsin tēs sēs dynameōs, eis kōlysin kakōn hōs en hierǭ katheirxas peribolǭ didaskalias charin eis agalliama hebdomados; dia touto hebdomas mia kai hebdomades hepta kai mēn ebdomos kai eniautos hebdomos kai toutou kata anakyklēsin etos pentēkoston eis aphesin.

You gave them the law of ten oracles, uttered by your voice and written by your hand; you commanded them to keep the Sabbath, giving not an excuse for idleness but an occasion for piety, for the knowledge of your power, for the prevention of evils, shutting them in as within a sacred enclosure for the sake of teaching, for the exultation of the seventh day; for this reason there is one week, and seven weeks, and a seventh month, and a seventh year, and, in its cycle, the fiftieth year for release.

Exod 20:1–17 (allusion, medium confidence) · Lev 23:15–16 (allusion, medium confidence) · Lev 25:4 (allusion, medium confidence) · Lev 25:10 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The Sabbath and the sabbatical cycles were given for piety, not idleness.

Exod 20:1–17; Lev 23:15–16; 25:4, 10.

Notes on the original text

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

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.36.4 (Funk 1:434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-36-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.36.5Funk 1:434

ὅπως μηδεμίαν ἔχωσιν πρόφασιν ἄνθρωποι ἄγνοιαν σκήψασθαι, τούτου χάριν πᾶν σάββατον ἐπέτρεψας ἀργεῖν, ὅπως μηδὲ λόγον τις ἐν ὀργῇ ἐκ τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ προέσθαι θελήσῃ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῶν σαββάτων· σάββατον γάρ ἐστιν κατάπαυσις δημιουργίας, τελείωσις κόσμου, νόμων ζήτησις, αἶνος εἰς θεὸν εὐχάριστος ὑπὲρ ὧν ἀνθρώποις ἐδωρήσατο.

hopōs mēdemian echōsin prophasin anthrōpoi agnoian skēpsasthai, toutou charin pan sabbaton epetrepsas argein, hopōs mēde logon tis en orgę̄ ek tou stomatos autou proesthai thelēsę̄ en tę̄ hēmerą tōn sabbatōn; sabbaton gar estin katapausis dēmiourgias, teleiōsis kosmou, nomōn zētēsis, ainos eis theon eucharistos hyper hōn anthrōpois edōrēsato.

So that men might have no excuse to plead ignorance, for this reason you permitted every Sabbath to be a day of rest, so that no one would even wish to let a word go from his mouth in anger on the day of the Sabbaths; for the Sabbath is the rest of creation, the completion of the world, the search into the laws, grateful praise to God for what he has given to men.

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Summary: The Sabbath is the rest and completion of creation and a day of grateful praise.

Notes on the original text

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

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.36.5 (Funk 1:434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-36-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.36.6Funk 1:434–436

ὧν ἁπάντων ἡ κυριακὴ προὔχουσα, αὐτὸν τὸν μεσίτην, τὸν προνοητήν, τὸν νομοθέτην, τὸν ἀναστάσεως αἴτιον, τὸν πρωτότοκον πάσης κτίσεως, τὸν θεὸν λόγον καὶ ἄνθρωπον τὸν ἐκ Μαρίας γεννηθέντα μόνον δίχα ἀνδρός, τὸν πολιτευσάμενον ὁσίως, τὸν σταυρωθέντα ἐπὶ Ποντίου Πιλάτου καὶ ἀποθανόντα καὶ ἀναστάντα ἐκ νεκρῶν ὑποδεικνύουσα, ὡς κυριακὴ παρακελεύεται σοί, δέσποτα, τὴν ὑπὲρ πάντων εὐχαριστίαν προσφέρειν.

hōn hapantōn hē kyriakē prouchousa, auton ton mesitēn, ton pronoētēn, ton nomothetēn, ton anastaseōs aition, ton prōtotokon pasēs ktiseōs, ton theon logon kai anthrōpon ton ek Marias gennēthenta monon dicha andros, ton politeusamenon hosiōs, ton staurōthenta epi Pontiou Pilatou kai apothanonta kai anastanta ek nekrōn hypodeiknyousa, hōs kyriakē parakeleuetai soi, despota, tēn hyper pantōn eucharistian prospherein.

Of all which the Lord's day is preeminent, showing forth the Mediator himself, the Provider, the Lawgiver, the cause of resurrection, “the firstborn of all creation, God the Word” and man, born of Mary alone without a man, who lived in holiness, who was crucified under Pontius Pilate and died and rose from the dead; and as the Lord's day it bids us offer you, Master, the thanksgiving for all things.

Col 1:15 (quotation, high confidence) · John 1:1 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Sunday surpasses all feasts, for it shows forth Christ and calls for thanksgiving.

Col 1:15; John 1:1.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ἣ κυριακὴ → ἡ κυριακὴ; »»πρωτότοχον → πρωτότοκον; ν““ → ν .

Topics: Prayer, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.36.6 (Funk 1:434–436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-36-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.36.7Funk 1:436

αὕτη γὰρ ἡ ὑπὸ σοῦ παρασχεθεῖσα χάρις, ἥτις διὰ μέγεθος πᾶσαν εὐεργεσίαν ἐκάλυψεν.

hautē gar hē hypo sou paraschetheisa charis, hētis dia megethos pasan euergesian ekalypsen.

For this is the grace granted by you, which by its greatness has covered every benefaction.

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Summary: The grace of the Lord's day surpasses every gift.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.36.7 (Funk 1:436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-36-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 37

7.37.1Funk 1:436

Ὁ τὰς ἐπαγγελίας τὰς διὰ τῶν προφητῶν πληρώσας καὶ ἐλεήσας τὴν Σιὼν καὶ οἰκτειρήσας τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ τῷ τὸν θρόνον Δαυὶδ τοῦ παιδός σου ἀνυψῶσαι ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς τῇ γενέσει τοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ ἐκ σπέρματος αὐτοῦ τὸ κατὰ σάρκα γεννηθέντος ἐκ μόνης παρθένου· αὐτὸς καὶ νῦν, δέσποτα ὃ θεός, πρόσδεξαι τὰς διὰ χειλέων δεήσεις τοῦ λαοῦ σου τοῦ ἐξ ἐθνῶν, τῶν ἐπικαλουμένων σε ἐν ἀληθείᾳ, καθὼς προσεδέξω τὰ δῶρα τῶν δικαίων ἐν ταῖς γενεαῖς αὐτῶν.

Ho tas epangelias tas dia tōn prophētōn plērōsas kai eleēsas tēn Siōn kai oikteirēsas tēn Hierousalēm tǭ ton thronon Dauid tou paidos sou anypsōsai en mesǭ autēs tę̄ genesei tou Christou tou ek spermatos autou to kata sarka gennēthentos ek monēs parthenou; autos kai nyn, despota ho theos, prosdexai tas dia cheileōn deēseis tou laou sou tou ex ethnōn, tōn epikaloumenōn se en alētheią, kathōs prosedexō ta dōra tōn dikaiōn en tais geneais autōn.

You who fulfilled the promises made through the prophets, and had mercy on Zion and compassion on Jerusalem by exalting the throne of David your servant in her midst through the birth of Christ, who was born “of his seed according to the flesh” of a virgin alone: you yourself, Master God, now too receive the petitions from the lips of your people from the Gentiles, “who call on you in truth,” as you received the gifts of the righteous in their generations.

Luke 1:32 (allusion, medium confidence) · Rom 1:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 145:18 (144:18 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: God, who fulfilled his promises in Christ, is asked to receive the prayers of the Gentile church.

Luke 1:32; Rom 1:3; Ps 145:18 (144:18 LXX).

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: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ᾿Ιερουσαλὴμ → Ἱερουσαλὴμ; Δαυὶό → Δαυὶδ; ,τ → τ; α“ → α ; υ" → υ· ; »τ → τ; 6s ἂν ἀληθείᾳ“ → σε ἐν ἀληθείᾳ.

Topics: Prayer, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.37.1 (Funk 1:436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-37-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.37.2Funk 1:436

Ἄβελ ἐν πρώτοις τὴν θυσίαν ἐπεῖδες καὶ προσεδέξω, Νῶε ἐξελθόντος τῆς κιβωτοῦ, Ἀβραὰμ μετὰ τὸ ἐξελθεῖν ἐκ γῆς Χαλδαίων, Ἰσαὰκ ἐν τῷ φρέατι τοῦ ὅρκου, Ἰακὼβ ἐν Βηθλεέμ, Μωσέως ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, Ἀαρὼν ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ζώντων καὶ τῶν τεθνεώτων, Ἰησοῦ τοῦ Ναυῆ ἐν Γαλγάλοις, Γεδεὼν ἐπὶ τῆς πέτρας καὶ τῶν πόκων πρὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, Μανωὲ καὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ γυναικὸς ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ, Σαμψὼν ἐν τῷ δίψει πρὸ τῆς πλημμελείας, Ἰεφθάε ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ πρὸ τῆς ἀκρίτου ἐπαγγελίας, Βαρὰκ καὶ Δεββώρας ἐπὶ τοῦ Σισάρα, Σαμουὴλ ἐν Μασσηφά·

Abel en prōtois tēn thysian epeides kai prosedexō, Nōe exelthontos tēs kibōtou, Abraam meta to exelthein ek gēs Chaldaiōn, Isaak en tǭ phreati tou horkou, Iakōb en Bēthleem, Mōseōs en tę̄ erēmǭ, Aarōn ana meson tōn zōntōn kai tōn tethneōtōn, Iēsou tou Nauē en Galgalois, Gedeōn epi tēs petras kai tōn pokōn pro tēs hamartias, Manōe kai tēs autou gynaikos en tǭ pediǭ, Sampsōn en tǭ dipsei pro tēs plēmmeleias, Iephthae en tǭ polemǭ pro tēs akritou epangelias, Barak kai Debbōras epi tou Sisara, Samouēl en Massēpha;

First you looked upon and received the sacrifice of Abel; of Noah when he came out of the ark; of Abraham after he came out of the land of the Chaldeans; of Isaac at the well of the oath; of Jacob in Bethlehem; of Moses in the wilderness; of Aaron between the living and the dead; of Joshua the son of Nun in Gilgal; of Gideon on the rock and with the fleeces, before his sin; of Manoah and his wife in the field; of Samson in his thirst, before his offense; of Jephthah in the war, before his rash vow; of Barak and Deborah against Sisera; of Samuel in Mizpah;

Gen 4:4 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 8:20 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 12:7–8 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 26:23–25 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 35:1–7 (allusion, low confidence) · Num 16:46–48 (allusion, high confidence) · Josh 5:10 (allusion, medium confidence) · Judg 6:20–21 (allusion, high confidence) · Judg 6:36–40 (allusion, high confidence) · Judg 13:19–20 (allusion, high confidence) · Judg 15:18–19 (allusion, high confidence) · Judg 11:30–31 (allusion, high confidence) · Judg 4:14–16 (allusion, medium confidence) · 1 Sam 7:9 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: God received the sacrifices and prayers of the righteous from Abel to Samuel.

“Bethlehem” stands where Bethel would be expected (Gen 35:1–7). Gen 4:4; 8:20; 12:7–8; 26:23–25; Num 16:46–48; Josh 5:10; Judg 6:20–21, 36–40; 8:27; 13:19–20; 15:18–19; 11:30–31; 4–5; 1 Sam 7:9.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: stray marks): 'AgeA → Ἄβελ; θυσία» ἐπεῖδες → θυσίαν ἐπεῖδες; κ iv τῷ φ → κ ἐν τῷ φ; 2 , * b ^ - , * - , ^ - → ; xol → καὶ; 2 - , M - [4 2 , 2 - , P1 → ; ε iv τῷ π → ε ἐν τῷ π; - 2 7, 2 H ' ^ H PENES - , → ; ἔν Μασσηφά᾽ → ἐν Μασσηφά·.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.37.2 (Funk 1:436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-37-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.37.3Funk 1:436

Δαυὶδ ἐν ἅλῳ Ὀρνὰ τοῦ Ἰεβουσαίου, Σολομῶνος ἐν Γαβαὼν καὶ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ, Ἠλία ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῷ Καρμηλίῳ, Ἐλισσαίου ἐπὶ τῆς ἀτεκνούσης πηγῆς, Ἰωσαφὰτ ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ, Ἐζεκία ἐν ἀρρωστίᾳ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ Σενναχηρείμ, Μανασσῆ Ν ἐν γῇ Χαλδαίων μετὰ τὴν πλημμέλειαν, Ἰωσία ἐν τῷ Φασσᾶ, Ἔσδρα ἐν τῇ ἐπανόδῳ·

Dauid en halǭ Orna tou Iebousaiou, Solomōnos en Gabaōn kai en Hierousalēm, Ēlia en tǭ orei tǭ Karmēliǭ, Elissaiou epi tēs ateknousēs pēgēs, Iōsaphat en tǭ polemǭ, Ezekia en arrōstią kai epi tou Sennachēreim, Manassē N en gę̄ Chaldaiōn meta tēn plēmmeleian, Iōsia en tǭ Phassa, Esdra en tę̄ epanodǭ;

of David at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite; of Solomon in Gibeon and in Jerusalem; of Elijah on Mount Carmel; of Elisha at the barren spring; of Jehoshaphat in war; of Hezekiah in sickness and against Sennacherib; of Manasseh in the land of the Chaldeans after his offense; of Josiah at the Passover; of Ezra at the return;

1 Chr 21:26–28 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Kgs 3:4 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Kgs 8:62–64 (allusion, medium confidence) · 1 Kgs 18:36–38 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 2:19–22 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Chr 20:5–12 (allusion, medium confidence) · 2 Kgs 20:1–11 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 19:14–19 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Chr 33:11–13 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Chr 35:1–19 (allusion, high confidence) · Ezra 6:16–22 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: The list continues from David to Ezra.

1 Chr 21:26–28; 1 Kgs 3:4; 8:62–64; 18:36–38; 2 Kgs 2:19–22; 2 Chr 20; 2 Kgs 20:1–11; 19:14–19; 2 Chr 33:11–13; 35:1–19; Ezra 6:16–22.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: stray marks; OCR: stray marks): 3 - , - ^ - Καρμηλίῳφ, ᾿Ελισσαίου → Καρμηλίῳ, Ἐλισσαίου; iv τῷ 2 , 2 - - → ἐν τῷ ; ᾿Εζεκία → Ἐζεκία; 2 - ^ Ν M , 2 , 2 - E → Ν ; Χαλόαίων → Χαλδαίων; α iv τῷ Φ → α ἐν τῷ Φ; ἐπανόδῳʼ → ἐπανόδῳ·.

Extrabiblical texts: Pr Man 1-15 (Prayer of Manasseh [in EO, ETH canons]; allusion)

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.37.3 (Funk 1:436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-37-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.37.4Funk 1:436–438

Δανιὴλ ἐν τῷ λάκκῳ τῶν λεόντων, Ἰωνᾶ ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ τοῦ κήτους, τῶν τριῶν παίδων ἐν καμίνῳ πυρός, Ἄννας ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ ἐνώπιον τῆς κιβωτοῦ, Νεεμία ἐπὶ τῇ ἀνεγέρσει τῶν τειχῶν καὶ τοῦ Ζοροβάβελ, Ματταθία καὶ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ζήλῳ σου, Ἰαὴλ ἐν εὐλογίαις.

Daniēl en tǭ lakkǭ tōn leontōn, Iōna en tę̄ koilią tou kētous, tōn triōn paidōn en kaminǭ pyros, Annas en tę̄ skēnę̄ enōpion tēs kibōtou, Neemia epi tę̄ anegersei tōn teichōn kai tou Zorobabel, Mattathia kai tōn huiōn autou en tǭ zēlǭ sou, Iaēl en eulogiais.

of Daniel in the lions' den; of Jonah in the belly of the sea monster; of the three youths in the furnace of fire; of Hannah in the tabernacle before the ark; of Nehemiah at the rebuilding of the walls, and of Zerubbabel; of Mattathias and his sons in your zeal; of Jael in blessings.

Dan 6:10 (allusion, medium confidence) · Jonah 2:1–9 (allusion, high confidence) · Dan 3:19–27 (allusion, medium confidence) · 1 Sam 1:9–11 (allusion, high confidence) · Neh 4:9 (allusion, low confidence) · Ezra 3:2 (allusion, low confidence) · Judg 5:24 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: The list ends with Daniel, Jonah, the three youths, Hannah, Nehemiah, the Maccabees and Jael.

Dan 6; Jonah 2; Dan 3; 1 Sam 1:9–11; Neh 2–6; Ezra 3; 1 Macc 2; Judg 5:24.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): àv τῷ → ἐν τῷ; JTovà iv τῇ → Ἰωνᾶ ἐν τῇ; iv καμίνῳ) → ἐν καμίνῳ; Avvac → Ἄννας.

Extrabiblical texts: 1 Macc 2:15-28 (1 Maccabees [in RC, EO canons]; allusion)

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.37.4 (Funk 1:436–438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-37-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.37.5Funk 1:438

καὶ νῦν οὖν πρόσδεξαι τὰς τοῦ λαοῦ σου προσευχὰς μετ᾽ ἐπιγνώσεως σοι διὰ Χριστοῦ προσφερομένας ἐν τῷ πνεύματι.

kai nyn oun prosdexai tas tou laou sou proseuchas met᾽ epignōseōs soi dia Christou prospheromenas en tǭ pneumati.

And now, then, receive the prayers of your people, offered to you with knowledge through Christ in the Spirit.

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Summary: God is asked to receive the church's prayers through Christ in the Spirit.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ust ἐπιγνώσεοός → μετ᾽ ἐπιγνώσεως; àv τᾷ → ἐν τῷ.

Topics: Prayer, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.37.5 (Funk 1:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-37-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 38

7.38.1Funk 1:438

Εὐχαριστοῦμέν σοι περὶ πάντων, δέσποτα παντοκράτορ, ὅτι οὐκ ἐγκατέλιπες τὰ ἐλέη σου καὶ τοὺς οἰκτιρμούς σου ἀφ᾽ ἡμῶν, ἀλλὰ καθʼ ἑκάστην γενεὰν καὶ γενεὰν σώζεις, ῥύῃ, ἀντιλαμβάνῃ, σκεπάζεις.

Eucharistoumen soi peri pantōn, despota pantokrator, hoti ouk enkatelipes ta eleē sou kai tous oiktirmous sou aph᾽ hēmōn, alla kathʼ hekastēn genean kai genean sōzeis, rhyę̄, antilambanę̄, skepazeis.

We give you thanks for all things, almighty Master, because you have not taken away your mercies and your compassions from us, but in every generation and generation you save, deliver, help, protect.

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Summary: Thanks are given for God's unfailing mercies.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: κ read as χ): παντοχράτορ → παντοκράτορ; δύῃ → ῥύῃ.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.38.1 (Funk 1:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-38-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.38.2Funk 1:438

ἀντελάβου γὰρ ἐν ἡμέραις Ἐνὼς καὶ Ἐνώχ, ἐν ἡμέραις Μωσῆ καὶ Ἰησοῦ, ἐν ἡμέραις τῶν κριτῶν, ἐν ἡμέραις Σαμουὴλ καὶ Ἠλία καὶ τῶν προφητῶν, ἐν ἡμέραις Δαυὶδ καὶ τῶν βασιλέων, ἐν ἡμέραις Ἐσθὴρ καὶ Μαρδοχαίου, ἐν ἡμέραις Ἰουδίθ, ἐν ἡμέραις Ἰούδα Μακκαβαίου καὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ.

antelabou gar en hēmerais Enōs kai Enōch, en hēmerais Mōsē kai Iēsou, en hēmerais tōn kritōn, en hēmerais Samouēl kai Ēlia kai tōn prophētōn, en hēmerais Dauid kai tōn basileōn, en hēmerais Esthēr kai Mardochaiou, en hēmerais Ioudith, en hēmerais Iouda Makkabaiou kai tōn adelphōn autou.

For you helped in the days of Enos and Enoch, in the days of Moses and Joshua, in the days of the judges, in the days of Samuel and Elijah and the prophets, in the days of David and the kings, in the days of Esther and Mordecai, in the days of Judith, in the days of Judas Maccabeus and his brothers.

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Summary: God helped his people in every age.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): "vo, → Ἐνώχ,; iv ἡμέραις → ἐν ἡμέραις; ᾿Εσθὴρ → Ἐσθὴρ; "Jovóí9, → Ἰουδίθ,.

Extrabiblical texts: Jdt 13:1-20 (Judith [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; allusion); 1 Macc 3:1-9 (1 Maccabees [in RC, EO canons]; allusion)

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.38.2 (Funk 1:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-38-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.38.3Funk 1:438

καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἡμῶν ἀντελάβου ἡμῶν διὰ τοῦ μεγάλου σου ἀρχιερέως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ παιδός σου· καὶ ἀπὸ μαχαίρας γὰρ ἐρρύσατο καὶ ἐκ λιμοῦ ἐξείλατο διαθρέψας, ἐκ νόσου ἰάσατο, ἐκ γλώσσης πονηρᾶς ἐσκέπασεν.

kai en tais hēmerais hēmōn antelabou hēmōn dia tou megalou sou archiereōs Iēsou Christou tou paidos sou; kai apo machairas gar errysato kai ek limou exeilato diathrepsas, ek nosou iasato, ek glōssēs ponēras eskepasen.

And in our days too you have helped us through your great high priest Jesus Christ your Servant; for he rescued us from the sword, and delivered us from famine, nourishing us; he healed us from disease, he sheltered us from an evil tongue.

Job 5:20–21 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: God helps the church now through Christ the high priest.

Job 5:20–21.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): υ" → υ· ; ἐσχέπασεν → ἐσκέπασεν.

Topics: Prayer, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.38.3 (Funk 1:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-38-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.38.4Funk 1:438

περὶ πάντων σοι διὰ Χριστοῦ εὐχαριστοῦμεν, ὁ καὶ φωνὴν ἔναρθρον εἰς ἐξομολόγησιν δωρησάμενος καὶ γλῶσσαν εὐάρμοστον δίκην πλήκτρου ὡς ὄργανον ὑποθείς, καὶ γεῦσιν πρόσφορον καὶ ἁφὴν κατάλληλον καὶ ὅρασιν θέας καὶ ἀκοὴν φωνῆς καὶ ὄσφρησιν ἀτμῶν καὶ χεῖρας εἰς ἔργον καὶ πόδας πρὸς ὁδοιπορίαν.

peri pantōn soi dia Christou eucharistoumen, ho kai phōnēn enarthron eis exomologēsin dōrēsamenos kai glōssan euarmoston dikēn plēktrou hōs organon hypotheis, kai geusin prosphoron kai haphēn katallēlon kai horasin theas kai akoēn phōnēs kai osphrēsin atmōn kai cheiras eis ergon kai podas pros hodoiporian.

For all things we give you thanks through Christ, you who also gave us articulate voice for confession, and placed under it a well-tuned tongue like a plectrum, as an instrument; and fitting taste and suitable touch, and sight for seeing and hearing for sound and smell for scents, and hands for work and feet for walking.

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Summary: God is thanked for the gifts of speech and the senses.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.38.4 (Funk 1:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-38-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.38.5Funk 1:438

καὶ ταῦτα πάντα ἐκ μικρᾶς σταγόνος διαπλάσας ἐν μήτρᾳ καὶ ψυχὴν ἀθάνατον μετὰ τὴν μόρφωσιν χαρίζῃ καὶ προάγεις εἰς φῶς τὸ λογικὸν ζῶον, τὸν ἄνθρωπον· νόμοις ἐπαίδευσας, δικαιώμασιν ἐφαίδρυνας᾽ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐπάγων διάλυσιν, τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἐπηγγείλω.

kai tauta panta ek mikras stagonos diaplasas en mētrą kai psychēn athanaton meta tēn morphōsin charizę̄ kai proageis eis phōs to logikon zōon, ton anthrōpon; nomois epaideusas, dikaiōmasin ephaidrynas᾽ pros oligon epagōn dialysin, tēn anastasin epēngeilō.

And having formed all these from a small drop in the womb, you grant an immortal soul after the shaping, and bring forth into the light the rational living being, man; you instructed him by laws, you made him bright with ordinances; bringing on dissolution for a little while, you promised the resurrection.

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Summary: God forms man in the womb, gives him an immortal soul, and promises resurrection.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): σταγόvoc → σταγόνος; ἀνθρώπον᾽" ψόμοις → ἄνθρωπον· νόμοις.

Topics: Prayer, Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.38.5 (Funk 1:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-38-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.38.6Funk 1:438

ποῖος τοιγαροῦν αὐτάρκης βίος, αἰώνων δὲ μῆκος πόσον διαρκέσει ἀνθρώποις πρὸς εὐχαριστίαν; ἢ τὸ μὲν πρὸς ἀξίαν ἀδύνατον, τὸ δὲ κατὰ δύναμιν εὐαγές.

poios toigaroun autarkēs bios, aiōnōn de mēkos poson diarkesei anthrōpois pros eucharistian? ē to men pros axian adynaton, to de kata dynamin euages.

What life, then, is sufficient, and how great a length of ages will suffice for men for thanksgiving? To do it worthily is impossible, but to do it according to our ability is holy.

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Summary: No life suffices to thank God worthily.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): εἰαγές → εὐαγές.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.38.6 (Funk 1:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-38-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.38.7Funk 1:438–440

ἐρρύσω γὰρ ἀσεβείας πολυθέων, καὶ χριστοκτόνων αἱρέσεως ἐξείλω, πεπλανημένης ἀγνοίας ἠλευθέρωσας᾽ τὸν Χριστὸν ἀπέστειλας εἰς ἀνθρώπους ὡς ἄνθρωπον, θεὸν ὄντα μονογενῆ, τὸν παράκλητον ἐνῴκισας ἡμῖν, ἀγγέλους ἐπέστησας, τὸν διάβολον ἤσχυνας· οὐκ ὄντας ἐποίησας, γενομένους φυλάσσεις, ζωὴν ἐπιμετρεῖς, χορηγεῖς τροφήν, μετάνοιαν ἐπηγγείλω.

errysō gar asebeias polytheōn, kai christoktonōn haireseōs exeilō, peplanēmenēs agnoias ēleutherōsas᾽ ton Christon apesteilas eis anthrōpous hōs anthrōpon, theon onta monogenē, ton paraklēton enǭkisas hēmin, angelous epestēsas, ton diabolon ēschynas; ouk ontas epoiēsas, genomenous phylasseis, zōēn epimetreis, chorēgeis trophēn, metanoian epēngeilō.

For you rescued us from the impiety of the polytheists, delivered us from the heresy of the Christ-killers, freed us from wandering ignorance; you sent Christ among men as a man, though he is the only-begotten God; you made the Paraclete dwell in us, set angels over us, put the devil to shame; you made us when we were not, you guard us now that we have come to be, you measure out life, you supply food, you promised repentance.

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Summary: God freed us from error through Christ and gave the Spirit.

The polemic is the work's own.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): αἷρέσεῶς → αἱρέσεως; dvOgomov; → ἀνθρώπους; ς" → ς· .

Topics: Prayer, Christology, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.38.7 (Funk 1:438–440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-38-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.38.8Funk 1:440

ὑπὲρ ἁπάντων σοι ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ σέβας διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. ἀμήν.

hyper hapantōn soi hē doxa kai to sebas dia Iēsou Christou nyn kai aei kai eis tous aiōnas. amēn.

For all these things to you be glory and reverence through Jesus Christ, now and always and forever. Amen.

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Summary: The prayer ends with a doxology.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.38.8 (Funk 1:440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-38-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.38.9Funk 1:440

ταῦτα μελετᾶτε, ἀδελφοί, καὶ εἴη ὃ κύριος μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, τοῦ καὶ αὐτὸν ἀποστείλαντος καὶ ἡμᾶς δι᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐλευθερώσαντος ἐκ τῆς δουλείας τῆς φθορᾶς εἰς τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τῆς δόξης, καὶ ζωὴν ἐπαγγειλαμένου τοῖς δι᾽ αὐτοῦ πιστεύσασιν εἰς τὸν τῶν ὅλων θεόν.

tauta meletate, adelphoi, kai eiē ho kyrios meth᾽ hymōn epi gēs kai en tę̄ basileią tou patros autou, tou kai auton aposteilantos kai hēmas di᾿ autou eleutherōsantos ek tēs douleias tēs phthoras eis tēn eleutherian tēs doxēs, kai zōēn epangeilamenou tois di᾽ autou pisteusasin eis ton tōn holōn theon.

Meditate on these things, brothers, and may the Lord be with you on earth and in the kingdom of his Father, who also sent him and through him “set us free from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of glory,” and promised life to those who through him have believed in the God of all.

Rom 8:21 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The prayers close with a blessing.

Rom 8:21.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,,ἐ → ἐ; ς“, → ς,; δὲ αὐτοῦ πιστεύσασιν → δι᾽ αὐτοῦ πιστεύσασιν.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.38.9 (Funk 1:440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-38-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 39

7.39.1Funk 1:440

Ὅπως μὲν οὖν ὀφείλουσι ζῆν οἱ κατὰ Χριστὸν μεμυημένοι καὶ οἵας εὐχαριστίας ἀναπέμπειν τῷ θεῷ διὰ Χριστοῦ, εἴρηται διὰ τῶν προλαβόντων δίκαιον δὲ μηδὲ τοὺς ἀμυήτους καταλιπεῖν ἀβοηθήτους.

Hopōs men oun opheilousi zēn hoi kata Christon memyēmenoi kai hoias eucharistias anapempein tǭ theǭ dia Christou, eirētai dia tōn prolabontōn dikaion de mēde tous amyētous katalipein aboēthētous.

How, then, those who have been initiated according to Christ ought to live, and what thanksgivings they ought to send up to God through Christ, has been said in what precedes; but it is right not to leave the uninitiated without help either.

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Summary: The instruction of catechumens is introduced.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.39.1 (Funk 1:440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-39-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.39.2Funk 1:440

Ὁ μέλλων τοίνυν κατηχεῖσθαι τὸν λόγον τῆς εὐσεβείας παιδευέσθω πρὸ τοῦ βαπτίσματος τὴν περὶ θεοῦ τοῦ ἀγεννήτου γνῶσιν, τὴν περὶ υἱοῦ μονογενοῦς ἐπίγνωσιν, τὴν περὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος πληροφορίαν· μανθανέτω δημιουργίας διαφόρου τάξιν, προνοίας εἱρμόν, νομοθεσίας διαφόρου δικαιωτήρια᾽ παιδευέσθω, διὰ τί κόσμος γέγονεν καὶ διʼ ὃ κοσμοπολίτης ὃ ἄνθρωπος κατέστη᾽ ἐπιγινωσκέτω τὴν ἑαυτοῦ φύσιν, οἵα τις ὑπάρχει.

Ho mellōn toinyn katēcheisthai ton logon tēs eusebeias paideuesthō pro tou baptismatos tēn peri theou tou agennētou gnōsin, tēn peri huiou monogenous epignōsin, tēn peri tou hagiou pneumatos plērophorian; manthanetō dēmiourgias diaphorou taxin, pronoias heirmon, nomothesias diaphorou dikaiōtēria᾽ paideuesthō, dia ti kosmos gegonen kai diʼ ho kosmopolitēs ho anthrōpos katestē᾽ epiginōsketō tēn heautou physin, hoia tis hyparchei.

Let him, then, who is to be catechized in the word of piety be taught before baptism the knowledge of the unbegotten God, the understanding of the only-begotten Son, the full assurance concerning the Holy Spirit; let him learn the order of the varied creation, the sequence of providence, the tribunals of the various legislation; let him be taught why the world came to be and for what reason man was made a citizen of the world; let him come to know his own nature, of what kind it is.

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Summary: Catechumens are taught about the Father, the Son, the Spirit, creation, providence and human nature.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): " μανθανéνο → · μανθανέτω; εἷρμόν → εἱρμόν; χόσμος → κόσμος; χοσμοπολίτης → κοσμοπολίτης; ἐπιγινωσχέτω → ἐπιγινωσκέτω.

Topics: Baptism, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.39.2 (Funk 1:440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-39-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.39.3Funk 1:440–442

παιδευέσθω, ὅπως ὃ θεὸς τοὺς πονηροὺς ἐκόλασεν ὕδατι καὶ πυρί, τοὺς δὲ ἁγίους ἐδόξασεν καθʼ ἑκάστην γενεάν, λέγω δὴ τὸν Σήθ, τὸν Ἐνώς, τὸν Ἐνώχ, τὸν Νῶε, τὸν Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τοὺς ἐκγόνους αὐτοῦ, τὸν Μελχισεδὲκ καὶ τὸν Ἰὼβ καὶ τὸν Μωσέα, Ἰησοῦν τε καὶ Χαλὲβ καὶ Φινεὲς τὸν ἱερέα καὶ τοὺς καθʼ ἑκάστην γενεὰν ὁσίους, ὅπως τε προνοούμενος οὐκ ἀπεστράφη ὁ θεὸς τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπὸ πλάνης καὶ ματαιότητος εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἀληθείας ἐκάλει κατὰ διαφόρους καιρούς, ἀπὸ τῆς δουλείας καὶ ἀσεβείας εἰς ἐλευθερίαν καὶ εὐσέβειαν ἐπανάγων, ἀπὸ ἀδικίας εἰς δικαιοσύνην, ἀπὸ θανάτου αἰωνίου εἰς ζωὴν ἀΐδιον.

paideuesthō, hopōs ho theos tous ponērous ekolasen hydati kai pyri, tous de hagious edoxasen kathʼ hekastēn genean, legō dē ton Sēth, ton Enōs, ton Enōch, ton Nōe, ton Abraam kai tous ekgonous autou, ton Melchisedek kai ton Iōb kai ton Mōsea, Iēsoun te kai Chaleb kai Phinees ton hierea kai tous kathʼ hekastēn genean hosious, hopōs te pronooumenos ouk apestraphē ho theos to tōn anthrōpōn genos, all᾽ apo planēs kai mataiotētos eis epignōsin alētheias ekalei kata diaphorous kairous, apo tēs douleias kai asebeias eis eleutherian kai eusebeian epanagōn, apo adikias eis dikaiosynēn, apo thanatou aiōniou eis zōēn aïdion.

Let him be taught how God punished the wicked with water and fire, and glorified the saints in each generation, I mean Seth, Enos, Enoch, Noah, Abraham and his descendants, Melchizedek and Job and Moses, Joshua and Caleb and Phinehas the priest, and the holy ones of each generation; and how, providing for it, God did not turn away from the human race, but called it at various times from error and vanity “to the knowledge of the truth,” leading it back from slavery and impiety to freedom and piety, from injustice to righteousness, from eternal death to everlasting life.

1 Tim 2:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 7:21–23 (allusion, low confidence) · Gen 19:24 (allusion, low confidence)

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Summary: Catechumens learn the history of God's judgments and of the saints.

1 Tim 2:4.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): Zxj9, → Σήθ,; 'Evo, → Ἐνώχ,; ἐχγόνους → ἐκγόνους; xai → καὶ; ts προνοούμενος → τε προνοούμενος; ,,ε → ε; ς““ → ς .

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.39.3 (Funk 1:440–442; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-39-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.39.4Funk 1:442

ταῦτα καὶ τὰ τούτοις ἀκόλουθα μανθανέτω ἐν τῇ κατηχήσει ὃ προσιών. προσκυνείτω δὲ ὁ χειροθετῶν αὐτὸν τὸν θεὸν τὸν τῶν ὅλων δεσπότην, εὐχαριστῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ πλάσματος, ὅτι κατέπεμψεν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν μονογενῆ Χριστόν, ἵνα σώσῃ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐξαλείψας τὰς ἀνομίας, καὶ ἵνα ἀφῇ τὰς ἀσεβείας καὶ τὰς ἁμαρτίας καὶ καθαρίσῃ ἀπὸ παντὸς μολυσμοῦ σαρκὸς καὶ πνεύματος, ἁγιάσῃ δὲ τὸν ἄνθρωπον κατ᾽ εὐδοκίαν τῆς χρηστότητος αὐτοῦ, συνετίσῃ δὲ τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ, καὶ φωτίσῃ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς τῆς καρδίας αὐτοῦ εἰς κατανόησιν τῶν θαυμασίων αὐτοῦ, γνωρίσῃ αὐτῷ τὰ κρίματα τῆς δικαιοσύνης, ὅπως ἂν μισήσῃ πᾶσαν ὁδὸν ἀδικίας, πορεύηται δὲ τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς ἀληθείας εἰς τὸ καταξιωθῆναι αὐτὸν τοῦ λουτροῦ τῆς παλιγγενεσίας εἰς υἱοθεσίαν τὴν ἐν Χριστῷ ἵνα σύμφυτος γενόμενος ἐν τῇ ὁμοιότητι τοῦ θανάτου τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐπ᾽ ἐλπίδι τῆς ἐνδόξου κοινωνίας νεκρωθῇ μὲν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, ζήσῃ δὲ τῷ θεῷ κατά τε νοῦν καὶ λόγον καὶ πρᾶξιν, καὶ ἐν τῇ βίβλῳ τῶν ζώντων συναριθμηθῇ. καὶ μετὰ τὴν εὐχαριστίαν ταύτην παιδευσάτω αὐτὸν τὰ περὶ τῆς τοῦ κυρίου ἐνανθρωπήσεως, τά τε περὶ τοῦ πάθους αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆς ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστάσεως καὶ ἀναλήψεως.

tauta kai ta toutois akoloutha manthanetō en tę̄ katēchēsei ho prosiōn. proskyneitō de ho cheirothetōn auton ton theon ton tōn holōn despotēn, eucharistōn hyper tou plasmatos, hoti katepempsen ton huion autou ton monogenē Christon, hina sōsę̄ ton anthrōpon exaleipsas tas anomias, kai hina aphę̄ tas asebeias kai tas hamartias kai katharisę̄ apo pantos molysmou sarkos kai pneumatos, hagiasę̄ de ton anthrōpon kat᾽ eudokian tēs chrēstotētos autou, synetisę̄ de to thelēma autou, kai phōtisę̄ tous ophthalmous tēs kardias autou eis katanoēsin tōn thaumasiōn autou, gnōrisę̄ autǭ ta krimata tēs dikaiosynēs, hopōs an misēsę̄ pasan hodon adikias, poreuētai de tēn hodon tēs alētheias eis to kataxiōthēnai auton tou loutrou tēs palingenesias eis huiothesian tēn en Christǭ hina symphytos genomenos en tę̄ homoiotēti tou thanatou tou Christou ep᾽ elpidi tēs endoxou koinōnias nekrōthę̄ men tę̄ hamartią, zēsę̄ de tǭ theǭ kata te noun kai logon kai praxin, kai en tę̄ biblǭ tōn zōntōn synarithmēthę̄. kai meta tēn eucharistian tautēn paideusatō auton ta peri tēs tou kyriou enanthrōpēseōs, ta te peri tou pathous autou kai tēs ek nekrōn anastaseōs kai analēpseōs.

Let him who comes forward learn these things, and what follows from them, in his catechesis. And let him who lays hands on him worship God, the Master of all, giving thanks for his creature, that he sent down his Son, the only-begotten Christ, to save man by blotting out his iniquities, and to forgive his impieties and sins and “cleanse him from all defilement of flesh and spirit,” and to sanctify man according to the good pleasure of his kindness, and to give understanding of his will, and to “enlighten the eyes of his heart” to perceive his wonders, and to make known to him the judgments of righteousness, so that he may “hate every way of injustice” and walk “in the way of truth,” that he may be counted worthy of “the washing of regeneration for the adoption in Christ,” so that, “having become united in the likeness of the death of Christ,” in the hope of glorious fellowship, he may die to sin and “live to God” in mind and word and deed, and be numbered in the book of the living. [5] And after this thanksgiving let him instruct him in what concerns the Lord's incarnation, and in what concerns his passion and his resurrection from the dead and ascension.

2 Cor 7:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 1:18 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 119:104 (118:104 LXX) (quotation, medium confidence) · Titus 3:5 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 6:5 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 6:10–11 (quotation, high confidence) · Phil 4:3 (allusion, low confidence)

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Summary: The catechist gives thanks for Christ's saving work and teaches the incarnation, passion, resurrection and ascension.

The section number 5 was lost in the OCR; “[5]” marks where it begins.
2 Cor 7:1; Eph 1:18; Ps 119:104 (118:104 LXX); Titus 3:5; Rom 6:5, 10–11; Phil 4:3.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: section number removed): iv τῇ κατηχήσει → ἐν τῇ κατηχήσει; ἐξαλεῖίψας → ἐξαλείψας; dvoμίας → ἀνομίας; xai ,, → καὶ ; σαρχὸς → σαρκὸς; ος“, → ος, ; ,qotíon → φωτίσῃ; οῦ“ ε → οῦ ε; ,ομισήσῃ → μισήσῃ; δδὸν → ὁδὸν; ας“, → ας, ; ,τ → τ; ς““ → ς ; «τ → τ; ῷ“ → ῷ ; »σ → σ; οῦ“ ἐ → οῦ ἐ; ,,ζ → ζ; θεορῦ“ → θεῷ; s. καὶ → καὶ; ἐνανθρωπήσεος → ἐνανθρωπήσεως.

Topics: Baptism, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.39.4 (Funk 1:442; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-39-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 40

7.40.1Funk 1:442–444

Καὶ ὅταν ἢ πρὸς αὐτὸ λοιπὸν τὸ βαπτισθῆναι ὃ κατηχηθείς, μανθανέτω τὰ περὶ τῆς ἀποταγῆς τοῦ διαβόλου καὶ τὰ περὶ τῆς συνταγῆς τοῦ Χριστοῦ· δεῖ γὰρ αὐτὸν πρῶτον μὲν ἀποσχέσθαι τῶν ἐναντίων καὶ τότε ἐντὸς γενέσθαι τῶν μυστηρίων, προκαθάραντα ἑαυτοῦ τὴν καρδίαν πάσης κακονοίας σπίλου τε καὶ ῥυτίδος καὶ τότε τῶν ἁγίων μεταλαχεῖν.

Kai hotan ē pros auto loipon to baptisthēnai ho katēchētheis, manthanetō ta peri tēs apotagēs tou diabolou kai ta peri tēs syntagēs tou Christou; dei gar auton prōton men aposchesthai tōn enantiōn kai tote entos genesthai tōn mystēriōn, prokatharanta heautou tēn kardian pasēs kakonoias spilou te kai rhytidos kai tote tōn hagiōn metalachein.

And when the one who has been catechized is at the point of being baptized, let him learn about the renunciation of the devil and the enrollment with Christ; for he must first abstain from what is contrary and then come within the mysteries, having first cleansed his heart of every stain and wrinkle of ill will, and then partake of the holy things.

Eph 5:27 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Before baptism the candidate learns to renounce the devil and join Christ.

Eph 5:27.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ῦ" → ῦ· ; προχαθάραντα → προκαθάραντα; óvtióoc xol → ῥυτίδος καὶ.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.40.1 (Funk 1:442–444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-40-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.40.2Funk 1:444

ὡς γὰρ γεωργὸς ἄριστος ἐκκαθαίρει τὴν ἄρουραν πρότερον τῶν ὑπερφυουσῶν ἐν αὐτῇ ἀκανθῶν καὶ τότε σπείρει τὸν πυρόν, οὕτως δεῖ καὶ ὑμᾶς, πρότερον πᾶσαν ἀσέβειαν ἐξελόντας ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν, τότε τὴν εὐσέβειαν αὐτοῖς ἐγκαταβάλλεσθαι καὶ τοῦ βαπτίσματος ἀξιῶσαι.

hōs gar geōrgos aristos ekkathairei tēn arouran proteron tōn hyperphyousōn en autę̄ akanthōn kai tote speirei ton pyron, houtōs dei kai hymas, proteron pasan asebeian exelontas ap᾽ autōn, tote tēn eusebeian autois enkataballesthai kai tou baptismatos axiōsai.

For as an excellent farmer first clears his field of the thorns growing up in it and then sows the wheat, so you too must first remove all impiety from them, and then sow piety in them and count them worthy of baptism.

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Summary: Impiety must be cleared before piety is sown and baptism given.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.40.2 (Funk 1:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-40-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.40.3Funk 1:444

καὶ γὰρ καὶ ὃ κύριος ἡμῶν οὕτως ἡμῖν παρήνεσεν εἰπών· Μαθητεύσατε πρότερον᾽ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, καὶ τότε ἐπήγαγεν τὸ καὶ βαπτίσατε αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος.

kai gar kai ho kyrios hēmōn houtōs hēmin parēnesen eipōn; Mathēteusate proteron᾽ panta ta ethnē, kai tote epēgagen to kai baptisate autous eis to onoma tou patros kai tou huiou kai tou hagiou pneumatos.

For our Lord too exhorted us thus, saying first, “Make disciples of all nations,” and then he added, “and baptize them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

Matt 28:19 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ commanded teaching before baptism.

Matt 28:19.

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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): " ,, → · ; ε“ → ε ; ,θπάντα → πάντα; η“, → η,; τὸ, καὶ → τὸ καὶ; ς“. → ς..

Topics: Baptism, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.40.3 (Funk 1:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-40-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 41

7.41.1Funk 1:444

Ἀπαγγελλέτω οὖν ὃ βαπτιζόμενος ἐν τῷ ἀποτάσσεσθαι·

Apangelletō oun ho baptizomenos en tǭ apotassesthai;

Let the one being baptized, then, declare in his renunciation:

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Summary: The renunciation is introduced.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): Ἀιπαγγελλέτω → Ἀπαγγελλέτω; αι" → αι·.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.41.1 (Funk 1:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-41-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.41.2Funk 1:444

ἀποτάσσομαι τῷ σατανᾷ καὶ τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ καὶ ταῖς πομπαῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ ταῖς λατρείαις αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις αὐτοῦ καὶ ταῖς ἐφευρέσεσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ὑπ᾽ αὐτόν.

apotassomai tǭ sataną kai tois ergois autou kai tais pompais autou kai tais latreiais autou kai tois angelois autou kai tais epheuresesin autou kai pasi tois hyp᾽ auton.

“I renounce Satan, and his works, and his pomps, and his worships, and his angels, and his inventions, and all that are under him.”

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Summary: The candidate renounces Satan and all his works.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.41.2 (Funk 1:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-41-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.41.3Funk 1:444

μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἀποταγὴν συντασσόμενος λεγέτω, ὅτι καὶ συντάσσομαι τῷ Χριστῷ·

meta de tēn apotagēn syntassomenos legetō, hoti kai syntassomai tǭ Christǭ;

And after the renunciation, enrolling himself, let him say: “And I enroll myself with Christ;

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Summary: The candidate enrolls with Christ.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ὅτε καὶ → ὅτι καὶ; τῷ" → τῷ·.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.41.3 (Funk 1:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-41-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.41.4Funk 1:444–446

καὶ πιστεύω καὶ βαπτίζομαι εἰς ἕνα ἀγέννητον μόνον ἀληθινὸν θεὸν παντοκράτορα, τὸν πατέρα τοῦ Χριστοῦ, κτίστην καὶ δημιουργὸν τῶν ἁπάντων, ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα

kai pisteuō kai baptizomai eis hena agennēton monon alēthinon theon pantokratora, ton patera tou Christou, ktistēn kai dēmiourgon tōn hapantōn, ex hou ta panta

and I believe and am baptized into one unbegotten, only true God almighty, the Father of Christ, Creator and Maker of all things, from whom are all things;

1 Cor 8:6 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The baptismal creed confesses the one unbegotten God, the Father.

1 Cor 8:6.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ἀληθινὸν οι θεὸν → ἀληθινὸν θεὸν; xol → καὶ; ,£8 οὗ → ἐξ οὗ; τα“ → τα.

Topics: Baptism, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.41.4 (Funk 1:444–446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-41-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.41.5Funk 1:446

καὶ εἰς τὸν κύριον Ἰησοῦν τὸν Χριστόν, τὸν μονογενῆ αὐτοῦ υἱόν, τὸν πρωτότοκον πάσης κτίσεως, τὸν πρὸ αἰώνων εὐδοκίᾳ τοῦ πατρὸς γεννηθέντα, οὐ κτισθέντα, δι᾽ οὗ τὰ πάντα ἐγένετο τὰ ἐν οὐρανοῖς καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς ὁρατά τε καὶ ἀόρατα

kai eis ton kyrion Iēsoun ton Christon, ton monogenē autou huion, ton prōtotokon pasēs ktiseōs, ton pro aiōnōn eudokią tou patros gennēthenta, ou ktisthenta, di᾽ hou ta panta egeneto ta en ouranois kai epi gēs horata te kai aorata

and into the Lord Jesus the Christ, his only-begotten Son, “the firstborn of all creation,” who was begotten before the ages by the good pleasure of the Father, not created, “through whom all things” came to be, those in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible;

Col 1:15–16 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 8:6 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The creed confesses the Son, begotten before the ages, not created, through whom all things were made.

The Son is begotten “by the good pleasure of the Father”: translated as written. Col 1:15–16; 1 Cor 8:6.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): Χριστόν» → Χριστόν; τὸν, πρωτότοχον → τὸν πρωτότοκον; ς", → ς,; κχτισθέντα, ,Ót οὗ → κτισθέντα, δι᾽ οὗ; α“ → α .

Topics: Baptism, Christology, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.41.5 (Funk 1:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-41-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.41.6Funk 1:446

τὸν ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν κατελθόντα ἐξ οὐρανῶν καὶ σάρκα ἀναλαβόντα, ἐκ τῆς ἁγίας παρθένου Μαρίας γεννηθέντα, καὶ πολιτευσάμενον ὁσίως κατὰ τοὺς νόμους τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, καὶ σταυρωθέντα ἐπὶ Ποντίου Πιλάτου καὶ ἀποθανόντα ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, καὶ ἀναστάντα ἐκ νεκρῶν μετὰ τὸ παθεῖν τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ καὶ ἀνελθόντα εἰς τοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ καθεσθέντα ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ πατρός, καὶ πάλιν ἐρχόμενον ἐπὶ συντελείᾳ τοῦ αἰῶνος μετὰ δόξης, κρῖναι ζῶντας καὶ νεκρούς, οὗ τῆς βασιλείας οὐκ ἔσται τέλος

ton ep᾽ eschatōn tōn hēmerōn katelthonta ex ouranōn kai sarka analabonta, ek tēs hagias parthenou Marias gennēthenta, kai politeusamenon hosiōs kata tous nomous tou theou kai patros autou, kai staurōthenta epi Pontiou Pilatou kai apothanonta hyper hēmōn, kai anastanta ek nekrōn meta to pathein tę̄ tritę̄ hēmerą kai anelthonta eis tous ouranous kai kathesthenta en dexią tou patros, kai palin erchomenon epi synteleią tou aiōnos meta doxēs, krinai zōntas kai nekrous, hou tēs basileias ouk estai telos

who in the last days came down from the heavens and took flesh, and was born of the holy virgin Mary, and lived in holiness according to the laws of his God and Father, and was crucified under Pontius Pilate and died for us, and rose from the dead after his passion on the third day, and went up into the heavens and sat down at the right hand of the Father, and is coming again at the consummation of the age with glory, to judge the living and the dead; “of whose kingdom there shall be no end.”

Luke 1:33 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The creed confesses Christ's incarnation, death, resurrection, ascension and coming.

Luke 1:33.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): xoi → καὶ; νεχρῶν → νεκρῶν; γεχρούς → νεκρούς; ος“ → ος.

Topics: Baptism, Christology, Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.41.6 (Funk 1:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-41-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.41.7Funk 1:446–448

βαπτίζομαι καὶ εἰς τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστιν τὸν παράκλητον, τὸ ἐνεργῆσαν ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς ἀπ αἰῶνος ἁγίοις, ὕστερον δὲ ἀποσταλὲν καὶ τοῖς ἀποστόλοις παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς κατὰ τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ μετὰ τοὺς ἀποστόλους δὲ πᾶσι τοῖς πιστεύουσιν ἐν τῇ ἁγίᾳ καθολικῇ καὶ ἀποστολικῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ· εἰς σαρκός ἀνάστασιν καὶ εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν καὶ εἰς βασιλείαν οὐρανῶν καὶ εἰς ζωὴν τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος.

baptizomai kai eis to pneuma to hagion, tout᾽ estin ton paraklēton, to energēsan en pasin tois ap aiōnos hagiois, hysteron de apostalen kai tois apostolois para tou patros kata tēn epangelian tou sōtēros hēmōn kai kyriou Iēsou Christou, kai meta tous apostolous de pasi tois pisteuousin en tę̄ hagią katholikę̄ kai apostolikę̄ ekklēsią; eis sarkos anastasin kai eis aphesin hamartiōn kai eis basileian ouranōn kai eis zōēn tou mellontos aiōnos.

I am baptized also into the Holy Spirit, that is, the Paraclete, who worked in all the saints from the beginning, and was afterwards sent also to the apostles from the Father according to the promise of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, and after the apostles to all who believe in the holy catholic and apostolic church; [8] into the resurrection of the flesh, and into the forgiveness of sins, and into the kingdom of heaven, and into the life of the age to come.”

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Summary: The creed confesses the Holy Spirit, the church, the resurrection, forgiveness and eternal life.

The section number 8 was lost in the OCR; “[8]” marks where it begins.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: stray marks and section number removed; word rejoined): ἔνεργῆσαν → ἐνεργῆσαν; ἀποὧι pe Qt στολικῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ" ὃ. εἰς → ἀποστολικῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ· εἰς; ἅμαρτιῶν → ἁμαρτιῶν.

Topics: Baptism, Trinity, Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.41.7 (Funk 1:446–448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-41-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 42

7.42.1Funk 1:448

Καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν ταύτην κατ᾽ ἀκολουθίαν ἔρχεται καὶ εἰς τὴν τοῦ ἐλαίου χρῖσιν.

Kai meta tēn epangelian tautēn kat᾽ akolouthian erchetai kai eis tēn tou elaiou chrisin.

And after this profession he comes, in due order, to the anointing with oil.

Notes and citation

Summary: After the profession comes the anointing with oil.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.42.1 (Funk 1:448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-42-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.42.2Funk 1:448

εὐλογεῖται δὲ τοῦτο παρὰ τοῦ ἱερέως εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν καὶ προκατασκευὴν τοῦ βαπτίσματος.

eulogeitai de touto para tou hiereōs eis aphesin hamartiōn kai prokataskeuēn tou baptismatos.

And this is blessed by the priest for the forgiveness of sins and as a preparation for baptism.

Notes and citation

Summary: The priest blesses the oil.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.42.2 (Funk 1:448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-42-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.42.3Funk 1:448

ἐπικαλεῖται γὰρ οὗτος τὸν ἀγέννητον θεόν, τὸν πατέρα τοῦ Χριστοῦ, τὸν βασιλέα πάσης αἰσθητῆς καὶ νοητῆς φύσεως, ἵνα ἁγιάσῃ τὸ ἔλαιον τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ καὶ δώσῃ χάριν πνευματικὴν καὶ δύναμιν ἐνεργητικήν, ἄφεσίν τε ἁμαρτιῶν καὶ προπαρασκευὴν ὁμολογίας βαπτίσματος, ὥστε τὸν χριόμενον ἀπολυθέντα πάσης ἀσεβείας ἄξιον γενέσθαι τῆς μυήσεως κατ᾽ ἐντολὴν τοῦ μονογενοῦς.

epikaleitai gar houtos ton agennēton theon, ton patera tou Christou, ton basilea pasēs aisthētēs kai noētēs physeōs, hina hagiasę̄ to elaion tǭ onomati tou kyriou Iēsou kai dōsę̄ charin pneumatikēn kai dynamin energētikēn, aphesin te hamartiōn kai proparaskeuēn homologias baptismatos, hōste ton chriomenon apolythenta pasēs asebeias axion genesthai tēs myēseōs kat᾽ entolēn tou monogenous.

For he calls on the unbegotten God, the Father of Christ, the King of every sensible and intelligible nature, to sanctify the oil “in the name of the Lord Jesus,” and to give spiritual grace and effective power, and forgiveness of sins and preparation for the confession of baptism, so that the one anointed, freed from all impiety, may become worthy of initiation according to the command of the Only-begotten.

Notes and citation

Summary: The priest asks the Father to sanctify the oil in Jesus' name.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,τ → τ; ῦ“ → ῦ ; xov ἐντολὴν → κατ᾽ ἐντολὴν.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.42.3 (Funk 1:448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-42-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 43

7.43.1Funk 1:448

Εἶτα ἔρχεται εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ.

Eita erchetai eis to hydōr.

Then he comes to the water.

Notes and citation

Summary: The blessing of the water is introduced.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.43.1 (Funk 1:448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-43-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.43.2Funk 1:448

εὐλογεῖ καὶ δοξάζει τὸν δεσπότην θεὸν τὸν παντοχράτορα, τὸν πατέρα τοῦ μονογενοῦς θεοῦ, εὐχαριστῶν ὃ ἱερεύς, ὅτι ἀπέστειλεν ἐνανθρωπῆσαι τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ δι᾽ ἡμᾶς, ἵνα ἡμᾶς σώσῃ, ὅτι ἠνέσχετο τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως ὑπήκοον αὐτὸν γενέσθαι ἐν πᾶσι, κηρῦξαι βασιλείαν οὐρανῶν, ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν, νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν.

eulogei kai doxazei ton despotēn theon ton pantochratora, ton patera tou monogenous theou, eucharistōn ho hiereus, hoti apesteilen enanthrōpēsai ton huion autou di᾽ hēmas, hina hēmas sōsę̄, hoti ēnescheto tēs enanthrōpēseōs hypēkoon auton genesthai en pasi, kēryxai basileian ouranōn, aphesin hamartiōn, nekrōn anastasin.

The priest blesses and glorifies the Master, God almighty, the Father of the only-begotten God, giving thanks that he sent his Son to become man for our sake, to save us; that he permitted him in his becoming man to become obedient in all things, “to preach the kingdom of heaven, forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the dead.”

Notes and citation

Summary: The priest thanks the Father for sending his Son to become man.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): τὸ» δεσπότην → τὸν δεσπότην; δί ἡμᾶς → δι᾽ ἡμᾶς; ivavügoπήσεως ὑπήχοον → ἐνανθρωπήσεως ὑπήκοον; ,,κηρῖξαι → κηρῦξαι; νεχρῶν → νεκρῶν; ν“. → ν..

Topics: Baptism, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.43.2 (Funk 1:448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-43-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.43.3Funk 1:448

ἐπὶ τούτοις προσκυνεῖ αὐτὸν τὸν μονογενῆ θεὸν μετ᾽ αὐτὸν καὶ δι᾽ αὐτόν, εὐχαριστῶν αὐτῷ τῷ ἀναδέξασθαι αὐτὸν τὸν ὑπὲρ πάντων θάνατον διὰ τοῦ σταυροῦ, οὗ τύπον ἔδωκεν τὸ βάπτισμα τῆς παλιγγενεσίας.

epi toutois proskynei auton ton monogenē theon met᾽ auton kai di᾽ auton, eucharistōn autǭ tǭ anadexasthai auton ton hyper pantōn thanaton dia tou staurou, hou typon edōken to baptisma tēs palingenesias.

Besides these things, he worships the only-begotten God himself, after him and because of him, giving thanks to him that he took upon himself death for all through the cross, of which he gave the baptism of regeneration as a figure.

Notes and citation

Summary: The priest worships the Son, who died for all on the cross.

The Son is worshiped “after him and because of him,” that is, after and because of the Father: translated as written.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): προσχυνεῖ → προσκυνεῖ; δί αὐτόν → δι᾽ αὐτόν.

Topics: Baptism, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.43.3 (Funk 1:448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-43-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.43.4Funk 1:448–450

δοξάζει τε, ὅτι ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ Χριστοῦ θεὸς ὁ τῶν ὅλων κύριος ἐν ἁγίῳ πνεύματι οὐκ ἀπέρριψεν τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος, ἀλλὰ διαφόροις καιροῖς διαφόρους προνοίας ἐποιήσατο, τῷ Ἀδὰμ αὐτῷ ἐν παραδείσῳ πρῶτον μὲν τρυφῆς λόγῳ τὸν παράδεισον οἰκητήριον δούς, ἔπειτα προνοίας λόγῳ ἐντολὴν ποιησάμενος, ἁμαρτόντα δὲ δικαιοσύνῃ ἐξώσας. ἀγαθότητι δὲ μὴ ἀπορρίψας εἰς τὸ παντελές, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἐξ αὐτοῦ κατὰ διαδοχὴν διαφόρως παιδεύσας· δι᾽ ὃν ἐπὶ τὸ τέρμα τοῦ αἰῶνος ἀπέστειλεν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἄνθρωπον γενέσθαι δι᾽ ἀνθρώπους καὶ πάντα τὰ ἀνθρώπινα πάθη ἀναδέξασθαι χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας.

doxazei te, hoti en tǭ onomati tou Christou theos ho tōn holōn kyrios en hagiǭ pneumati ouk aperripsen to tōn anthrōpōn genos, alla diaphorois kairois diaphorous pronoias epoiēsato, tǭ Adam autǭ en paradeisǭ prōton men tryphēs logǭ ton paradeison oikētērion dous, epeita pronoias logǭ entolēn poiēsamenos, hamartonta de dikaiosynę̄ exōsas. agathotēti de mē aporripsas eis to panteles, alla kai tous ex autou kata diadochēn diaphorōs paideusas; di᾽ hon epi to terma tou aiōnos apesteilen ton huion autou anthrōpon genesthai di᾽ anthrōpous kai panta ta anthrōpina pathē anadexasthai chōris hamartias.

And he glorifies him that in the name of Christ God, the Lord of all, in the Holy Spirit, did not reject the human race, but at various times made various provisions: to Adam himself in paradise, first by way of delight giving paradise as a dwelling, then by way of providence giving a commandment, and when he sinned driving him out in justice, but in goodness not rejecting him altogether, but instructing also those descended from him in succession in various ways; for whose sake, at the end of the age, he sent his Son to become man for the sake of men and to take on all human passions without sin.

Gen 2:8 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 2:16–17 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 3:23 (allusion, medium confidence) · Heb 4:15 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: God's providence cared for Adam and his descendants and at last sent his Son.

Stray marks in the scan are removed. Gen 2:8, 16–17; 3:23; Heb 4:15.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: stray letters; ἐν; OCR: stray marks; OCR: stray marks removed; OCR: stray marks removed; word rejoined): ir → ἐν ; προ" 2 H - 2 * 2. - 2 ; - * voíac → προνοίας; τῷ cvs Αδὰμ αὐτῷ iv → τῷ Ἀδὰμ αὐτῷ ἐν; uiv → μὲν; ὁὲ δικαιοσύνῃ → δὲ δικαιοσύνῃ; 2 , ^ ^ 2 , ? * , 2 ^ ^ MJ 2 → ; sic τὸ → εἰς τὸ; xol → καὶ; " δὲ ὃν → · δι᾽ ὃν; γενέσθαι δὲ b Li ,F ^. » , , 2 / H ανθρώπους → γενέσθαι δι᾽ ἀνθρώπους.

Topics: Baptism, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.43.4 (Funk 1:448–450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-43-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.43.5Funk 1:450

αὐτὸν οὖν καὶ νῦν παρακαλείτω ὃ ἱερεὺς πρὸς τῷ βαπτίσματι καὶ λεγέτω, ὅτι Κάτιδε ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἁγίασον τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦτο, δὸς δὲ χάριν καὶ δύναμιν, ὥστε τὸν βαπτιζόμενον κατ᾽ ἐντολὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ σου αὐτῷ συσταυρωθῆναι καὶ συναποθανεῖν καὶ συνταφῆναι καὶ συναναστῆναι εἰς υἱοθεσίαν τὴν ἐν αὐτῷ, τῷ νεκρωθῆναι μὲν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, ζῆσαι δὲ τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ.

auton oun kai nyn parakaleitō ho hiereus pros tǭ baptismati kai legetō, hoti Katide ex ouranou kai hagiason to hydōr touto, dos de charin kai dynamin, hōste ton baptizomenon kat᾽ entolēn tou Christou sou autǭ systaurōthēnai kai synapothanein kai syntaphēnai kai synanastēnai eis huiothesian tēn en autǭ, tǭ nekrōthēnai men tę̄ hamartią, zēsai de tę̄ dikaiosynę̄.

Him, then, let the priest now too call upon at the baptism and say: “Look down from heaven and sanctify this water, and give grace and power, so that the one baptized according to the command of your Christ may be crucified with him and die with him and be buried with him and rise with him into the adoption that is in him, by dying to sin and living to righteousness.”

Rom 6:4–6 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Pet 2:24 (quotation, medium confidence)

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Summary: The priest prays over the water that the baptized may die and rise with Christ.

Rom 6:4–11; 1 Pet 2:24.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.43.5 (Funk 1:450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-43-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 44

7.44.1Funk 1:450

Καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο, βαπτίσας αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος χρισάτω μύρῳ ἐπιλέγων.

Kai meta touto, baptisas auton en tǭ onomati tou patros kai tou huiou kai tou hagiou pneumatos chrisatō myrǭ epilegōn.

And after this, having baptized him “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” let him anoint him with chrism, saying:

Matt 28:19 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: After baptism the newly baptized is anointed with chrism.

Matt 28:19.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ἐν τᾷ ὀνόματι → ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι; “,, → .

Topics: Baptism, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.44.1 (Funk 1:450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-44-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.44.2Funk 1:450

Κύριε ὁ θεὸς ὁ ἀγέννητος καὶ ἀδέσποτος, ὁ τῶν ὅλων κύριος, ὃ τὴν ὀσμὴν τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ εὐαγγελίου ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσιν εὔοσμον παρασχόμενος· σὺ καὶ νῦν τοῦτο τὸ μύρον δὸς ἐνεργὲς γενέσθαι ἐπὶ τῷ βαπτιζομένῳ, ὥστε βεβαίαν καὶ πάγιον ἐν αὐτῷ τὴν εὐωδίαν μεῖναι τοῦ Χριστοῦ σου, καὶ συναποθανόντα αὐτὸν συναναστῆναι καὶ συζῆσαι αὐτῷ.

Kyrie ho theos ho agennētos kai adespotos, ho tōn holōn kyrios, ho tēn osmēn tēs gnōseōs tou euangeliou en pasi tois ethnesin euosmon paraschomenos; sy kai nyn touto to myron dos energes genesthai epi tǭ baptizomenǭ, hōste bebaian kai pagion en autǭ tēn euōdian meinai tou Christou sou, kai synapothanonta auton synanastēnai kai syzēsai autǭ.

“O Lord God, unbegotten and without master, Lord of all, who made the fragrance of the knowledge of the gospel sweet-smelling among all the nations: grant now too that this chrism may be effective upon the one baptized, so that the sweet savor of your Christ may remain firm and fixed in him, and that, having died with him, he may rise and live with him.”

2 Cor 2:14–15 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The prayer over the chrism asks that the fragrance of Christ remain in the baptized.

2 Cor 2:14–15.

Notes on the original text

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

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.44.2 (Funk 1:450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-44-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.44.3Funk 1:450

ταῦτα καὶ τὰ τούτοις ἀκόλουθα λεγέτω ἑκάστου γὰρ ἡ δύναμις τῆς χειροθεσίας ἐστὶν αὕτη. ἐὰν γὰρ μὴ εἰς ἕκαστον τούτων ἐπίκλησις γένηται παρὰ τοῦ εὐσεβοῦς ἱερέως τοιαύτη τις, εἰς ὕδωρ μόνον καταβαίνει ὃ βαπτιζόμενος ὡς οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι, καὶ ἀποτίθεται μόνον τὸν ῥύπον τοῦ σώματος, οὐ τὸν ῥύπον τῆς ψυχῆς.

tauta kai ta toutois akoloutha legetō hekastou gar hē dynamis tēs cheirothesias estin hautē. ean gar mē eis hekaston toutōn epiklēsis genētai para tou eusebous hiereōs toiautē tis, eis hydōr monon katabainei ho baptizomenos hōs hoi Ioudaioi, kai apotithetai monon ton rhypon tou sōmatos, ou ton rhypon tēs psychēs.

Let him say these things and what follows from them; for this is the power of the laying on of hands for each. For if such an invocation is not made over each of these by the pious priest, the one baptized merely goes down into the water like the Jews, and puts away only the filth of the body, not the filth of the soul.

1 Pet 3:21 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Without the priest's invocation, baptism is a mere bodily washing.

1 Pet 3:21.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): 7 δύναμις → ἡ δύναμις.

Topics: Baptism, Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.44.3 (Funk 1:450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-44-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 45

7.45.1Funk 1:450

Μετὰ τοῦτο ἑστὼς προσευχέσθω τὴν εὐχήν, ἣν ἐδίδαξεν ἡμᾶς ὃ κύριος. ἀναγκαίως δὲ τὸν ἀναστάντα δεῖ ἑστάναι καὶ προσεύχεσθαι διὰ τὸ τὸν ἐγειρόμενον ὄρθιον εἶναι· καὶ αὐτὸς οὖν συναποθανὼν τῷ Χριστῷ καὶ συνεγερθεὶς ἕστηκεν.

Meta touto hestōs proseuchesthō tēn euchēn, hēn edidaxen hēmas ho kyrios. anankaiōs de ton anastanta dei hestanai kai proseuchesthai dia to ton egeiromenon orthion einai; kai autos oun synapothanōn tǭ Christǭ kai synegertheis hestēken.

After this let him stand and pray the prayer which the Lord taught us. And he who has risen must necessarily stand and pray, because he who is raised stands upright; so he too, having died with Christ and been raised with him, stands.

Notes and citation

Summary: The newly baptized stands to pray the Lord's Prayer as one risen with Christ.

Notes on the original text

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

Topics: Baptism, Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.45.1 (Funk 1:450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-45-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.45.2Funk 1:450–452

προσευχέσθω δὲ κατὰ ἀνατολάς· καὶ γὰρ καὶ τοῦτο γέγραπται ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ τῶν Παραλειπομένων, ὅτι μετὰ τὸ συντελεσθῆναι τὸν ναὸν τοῦ κυρίου ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως Σολομῶνος ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ ἐγκαινισμῷ οἱ ἱερεῖς καὶ οἱ λευῖται καὶ οἱ ψαλτῳδοὶ μετὰ κυμβάλων καὶ ψαλτηρίων εἱστήκεισαν κατὰ ἀνατολάς, αἰνοῦντες καὶ ἐξομολογούμενοι καὶ λέγοντες· Αἰνεῖτε τὸν κύριον, ὅτι ἀγαθός, ὅτι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ.

proseuchesthō de kata anatolas; kai gar kai touto gegraptai en tę̄ deuterą tōn Paraleipomenōn, hoti meta to syntelesthēnai ton naon tou kyriou hypo tou basileōs Solomōnos en autǭ tǭ enkainismǭ hoi hiereis kai hoi leuitai kai hoi psaltǭdoi meta kymbalōn kai psaltēriōn heistēkeisan kata anatolas, ainountes kai exomologoumenoi kai legontes; Aineite ton kyrion, hoti agathos, hoti eis ton aiōna to eleos autou.

And let him pray toward the east; for this too is written in the second book of Chronicles, that after the temple of the Lord was completed by King Solomon, at its very dedication “the priests and the Levites and the singers with cymbals and harps stood toward the east, praising and confessing and saying: Praise the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is forever.”

2 Chr 5:12–13 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Prayer is made toward the east, as at the dedication of Solomon's temple.

2 Chr 5:12–13.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): προῦευχέσθω → προσευχέσθω; άς" κ → άς· κ; ,,ο → ο; xai → καὶ; ες" Α → ες· Α; ῦ“. → ῦ..

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.45.2 (Funk 1:450–452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-45-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.45.3Funk 1:452

προσευχέσθω δὲ ταῦτα μετὰ τὴν προτέραν εὐχὴν λέγων᾽ Ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ, ὃ πατὴρ τοῦ Χριστοῦ σου τοῦ μονογενοῦς υἱοῦ σου, δός μοι σῶμα ἄσπιλον, καρδίαν καθαράν, νοῦν ἐγρήγορον, γνῶσιν ἀπλανῆ, πνεύματος ἁγίου ἐπιφοίτησιν πρὸς κτῆσιν καὶ πληροφορίαν τῆς ἀληθείας διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ σου, διʼ οὗ σοι δόξα ἐν ἁγίῳ πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· ἀμήν.

proseuchesthō de tauta meta tēn proteran euchēn legōn᾽ Ho theos ho pantokratōr, ho patēr tou Christou sou tou monogenous huiou sou, dos moi sōma aspilon, kardian katharan, noun egrēgoron, gnōsin aplanē, pneumatos hagiou epiphoitēsin pros ktēsin kai plērophorian tēs alētheias dia tou Christou sou, diʼ hou soi doxa en hagiǭ pneumati eis tous aiōnas; amēn.

And after the former prayer let him pray these words, saying: “O God almighty, the Father of your Christ, your only-begotten Son, give me a spotless body, a pure heart, a watchful mind, unerring knowledge, the visitation of the Holy Spirit for the possession and full assurance of the truth, through your Christ, through whom be glory to you in the Holy Spirit forever. Amen.”

Ps 51:10 (50:12 LXX) (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The newly baptized asks for purity and the Spirit's visitation.

Ps 51:10 (50:12 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): 0 παντοκράτωρ → ὁ παντοκράτωρ; ,κ → κ; ν“, → ν,; ς" → ς· .

Topics: Prayer, Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.45.3 (Funk 1:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-45-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.45.4Funk 1:452

ταῦτα καὶ περὶ τῶν κατηχουμένων δίκαιον ἡγησάμεθα διατάξασθαι.

tauta kai peri tōn katēchoumenōn dikaion hēgēsametha diataxasthai.

These things too we have thought it right to ordain concerning the catechumens.

Notes and citation

Summary: The rules for catechumens end.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.45.4 (Funk 1:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-45-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 46

7.46.1Funk 1:452

Περὶ δὲ τῶν ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν χειροτονηθέντων ἐπισκόπων ἐν τῇ ζωῇ τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ γνωρίζομεν ὑμῖν, ὅτι εἰσὶν οὗτοι.

Peri de tōn hyph᾽ hēmōn cheirotonēthentōn episkopōn en tę̄ zōę̄ tę̄ hēmeterą gnōrizomen hymin, hoti eisin houtoi.

Concerning the bishops ordained by us in our lifetime, we make known to you that they are these.

Notes and citation

Summary: A list of bishops ordained by the apostles follows.

The list is the work's own and is not historically reliable throughout.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): óà → δὲ ; ζωῦ → ζωῇ.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.1 (Funk 1:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.2Funk 1:452

Ἱεροσολύμων μὲν Ἰάκωβος ὃ τοῦ κυρίου ἀδελφός, οὗ τελευτήσαντος δεύτερος Συμεὼν ὃ τοῦ Κλωπᾶ, μεθ᾽ ὃν τρίτος Ἰούδας Ἰακώβου·

Hierosolymōn men Iakōbos ho tou kyriou adelphos, hou teleutēsantos deuteros Symeōn ho tou Klōpa, meth᾽ hon tritos Ioudas Iakōbou;

Of Jerusalem, James the brother of the Lord; and when he died, the second was Simeon the son of Clopas; after whom the third was Judas the son of James;

Notes and citation

Summary: The first bishops of Jerusalem were James, Simeon and Judas.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: stray letter): "Icgoσολύμων → Ἱεροσολύμων; us) ὃν → μεθ᾽ ὃν; Ἰακώβου" ὅ → Ἰακώβου·.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.2 (Funk 1:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.3Funk 1:452

Καισαρείας δὲ τῆς Παλαιστίνης πρότερον μὲν Ζακχαῖος ὁ ποτε τελώνης, μεθ᾽ ὃν Κορνήλιος καὶ τρίτος Θεόφιλος·

Kaisareias de tēs Palaistinēs proteron men Zakchaios ho pote telōnēs, meth᾽ hon Kornēlios kai tritos Theophilos;

of Caesarea of Palestine, first Zacchaeus, once a tax collector; after him Cornelius, and third Theophilus;

Notes and citation

Summary: The first bishops of Caesarea were Zacchaeus, Cornelius and Theophilus.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): Ζακχχαῖος 0 ποτε → Ζακχαῖος ὁ ποτε; us9" ὃν → μεθ᾽ ὃν; ος" → ος·.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.3 (Funk 1:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.4Funk 1:452

Ἀντιοχείας δὲ Εὐόδιος μὲν ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ Πέτρου, Ἰγνάτιος δὲ ὑπὸ Παύλου·

Antiocheias de Euodios men hyp᾽ emou Petrou, Ignatios de hypo Paulou;

of Antioch, Euodius, ordained by me, Peter, and Ignatius by Paul;

Notes and citation

Summary: Euodius and Ignatius were the first bishops of Antioch.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ὁὲ Εὐόόδιος → δὲ Εὐόδιος; ου" → ου·.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.4 (Funk 1:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.5Funk 1:452

τῆς δὲ Ἀλεξανδρέων Ἀννιανὸς πρῶτος ὑπὸ Μάρκου τοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ κεχειροτόνηται, δεύτερος δὲ Ἀβίλιος ὑπὸ Λουκᾶ καὶ αὐτοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ·

tēs de Alexandreōn Annianos prōtos hypo Markou tou euangelistou kecheirotonētai, deuteros de Abilios hypo Louka kai autou euangelistou;

of the church of the Alexandrians, Annianus was first ordained by Mark the evangelist, and the second, Avilius, by Luke, also an evangelist;

Notes and citation

Summary: Annianus and Avilius were the first bishops of Alexandria.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ᾿Αβίλιος → Ἀβίλιος; Δουκᾶ → Λουκᾶ; εὐαγγελιστοῦ; → εὐαγγελιστοῦ·.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.5 (Funk 1:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.6Funk 1:452

τῆς δὲ Ῥωμαίων ἐκκλησίας Λῖνος μὲν ὁ Κλαυδίας πρῶτος ὑπὸ Παύλου, Κλήμης δὲ μετὰ τὸν Λίνου θάνατον ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ Πέτρου δεύτερος κεχειροτόνηται᾽

tēs de Rhōmaiōn ekklēsias Linos men ho Klaudias prōtos hypo Paulou, Klēmēs de meta ton Linou thanaton hyp᾽ emou Petrou deuteros kecheirotonētai᾽

of the church of the Romans, Linus the son of Claudia was first ordained by Paul, and Clement, after the death of Linus, was ordained second, by me, Peter;

2 Tim 4:21 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Linus and Clement were the first bishops of Rome.

2 Tim 4:21.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ὁὲ μετὰ → δὲ μετὰ; ox ἐμοῦ → ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.6 (Funk 1:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.7Funk 1:452–454

τῆς δὲ Ἐφέσου Τιμόθεος μὲν ὑπὸ Παύλου, Ἰωάννης δὲ ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ Ἰωάννου·

tēs de Ephesou Timotheos men hypo Paulou, Iōannēs de hyp᾽ emou Iōannou;

of Ephesus, Timothy, ordained by Paul, and John, by me, John;

Notes and citation

Summary: Timothy and John were bishops of Ephesus.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Ἰωάννου: → Ἰωάννου·.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.7 (Funk 1:452–454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.8Funk 1:454

Σμύρνης δὲ Ἀρίστων πρῶτος, μεθʼ ὃν Στραταίας ὃ Λωΐδος καὶ τρίτος Ἀρίστων·

Smyrnēs de Aristōn prōtos, methʼ hon Strataias ho Lōïdos kai tritos Aristōn;

of Smyrna, Ariston first, after him Strataeas the son of Lois, and third Ariston;

Notes and citation

Summary: The first bishops of Smyrna are listed.

The names are garbled in the scan and read as Λωΐδος and Ἀρίστων.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Aoióoc → Λωΐδος; Aoíovov: → Ἀρίστων·.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.8 (Funk 1:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.9Funk 1:454

Περγάμου δὲ Γάϊος καὶ Φιλαδελφείας Δημήτριος ὑπ ἐμοῦ·

Pergamou de Gaïos kai Philadelpheias Dēmētrios hyp emou;

of Pergamum, Gaius; and of Philadelphia, Demetrius, by me;

Notes and citation

Summary: Gaius and Demetrius were bishops of Pergamum and Philadelphia.

Notes on the original text

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

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.9 (Funk 1:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.10Funk 1:454

ὑπὸ δὲ Παύλου Λούκιος Κεγχρεῶν καὶ τῆς Κρήτης ὁ Τίτος· Διονύσιος δὲ ἐν Ἀθήναις, τῆς δὲ ἐν Φοινίκῃ Τριπόλεως Μαρθόνης᾽·

hypo de Paulou Loukios Kenchreōn kai tēs Krētēs ho Titos; Dionysios de en Athēnais, tēs de en Phoinikę̄ Tripoleōs Marthonēs᾽;

and by Paul, Lucius of Cenchreae, and Titus of Crete; [11] Dionysius in Athens; and of Tripolis in Phoenicia, Marathones;

Titus 1:5 (allusion, medium confidence) · Acts 17:34 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul ordained bishops in Cenchreae, Crete, Athens and Tripolis.

The section number 11 was lost in the OCR; “[11]” marks where it begins. Acts 17:34; Titus 1:5.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: section number (11) removed; δὲ): ὅ Τίτος᾽ τι. Διονύσιος ὀὲ ἐν 4θήναις → ὁ Τίτος· Διονύσιος δὲ ἐν Ἀθήναις; ΤριπόAsoc → Τριπόλεως; ς᾽" → ς᾽·.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.10 (Funk 1:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.12Funk 1:454

τῆς δὲ ἐν Φρυγίᾳ Λαοδικείας Ἄρχιππος, Κολασσαέων δὲ Φιλήμων·

tēs de en Phrygią Laodikeias Archippos, Kolassaeōn de Philēmōn;

of Laodicea in Phrygia, Archippus; and of the Colossians, Philemon;

Col 4:17 (allusion, medium confidence) · Phlm 1:1–2 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Archippus and Philemon were bishops of Laodicea and Colossae.

Col 4:17; Phlm 1–2.

Notes on the original text

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

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.12 (Funk 1:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.13Funk 1:454

Βεροίας δὲ τῆς κατὰ Μακεδονίαν Ὀνήσιμος ὃ Φιλήμονος, Κρήσκης δὲ τῶν κατὰ Γαλατίαν ἐκκλησιῶν.

Beroias de tēs kata Makedonian Onēsimos ho Philēmonos, Krēskēs de tōn kata Galatian ekklēsiōn.

of Beroea in Macedonia, Onesimus, Philemon's servant; and Crescens of the churches in Galatia;

Phlm 1:10 (allusion, medium confidence) · 2 Tim 4:10 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Onesimus and Crescens were bishops in Macedonia and Galatia.

Phlm 10; 2 Tim 4:10.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ὁὲ → δὲ .

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.13 (Funk 1:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.46.14Funk 1:454

Ἀκύλας δὲ καὶ Νικήτης τῶν κατὰ Ἀσίαν παροικιῶν, Κρίσπος δὲ τῆς κατὰ Αἴγιναν ἐκκλησίας. οὗτοι οἱ ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν ἐμπιστευθέντες τὰς ἐν κυρίῳ παροικίας, ὧν τῆς διδασκαλίας μνημονεύοντες πάντοτε παραφυλάσσεσθε τοὺς ἡμετέρους λόγους· καὶ εἴη ὃ κύριος μεθʼ ὑμῶν νῦν τε καὶ εἰς ἀτελευτήτους χρόνους, ὡς αὐτὸς εἴρηκεν ἡμῖν μέλλων ἀναλαμβάνεσθαι πρὸς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ θεὸν καὶ πατέρα, Ἰδοὺ γάρ, φησίν, , ἐγὼ μεθʼ ὑμῶν εἶμι πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος ἀμήν.

Akylas de kai Nikētēs tōn kata Asian paroikiōn, Krispos de tēs kata Aiginan ekklēsias. houtoi hoi hyph᾽ hēmōn empisteuthentes tas en kyriǭ paroikias, hōn tēs didaskalias mnēmoneuontes pantote paraphylassesthe tous hēmeterous logous; kai eiē ho kyrios methʼ hymōn nyn te kai eis ateleutētous chronous, hōs autos eirēken hēmin mellōn analambanesthai pros ton heautou theon kai patera, Idou gar, phēsin, , egō methʼ hymōn eimi pasas tas hēmeras heōs tēs synteleias tou aiōnos amēn.

Aquila and Nicetes of the communities in Asia; and Crispus of the church in Aegina. [15] These are those entrusted by us with the communities in the Lord; remembering their teaching, always keep our words; and may the Lord be with you now and for endless times, as he himself said to us when he was about to be taken up to his own God and Father: “For behold,” he says, “I am with you all the days until the consummation of the age.” Amen.

1 Cor 1:14 (allusion, low confidence) · Matt 28:20 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The list ends with an exhortation and Christ's promise to be with his church.

The section number 15 was lost in the OCR; “[15]” marks where it begins. 1 Cor 1:14; Matt 28:20.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: stray line number; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: section number (15) removed; OCR: stray line number): ᾿Ασίαν παροικιῶν, 10 Κρίσπος → Ἀσίαν παροικιῶν, Κρίσπος; τς. οὗτοι → οὗτοι; uvyμονεύοντες → μνημονεύοντες; ς" → ς· ; ἑαυτοῦ 15 θεὸν → ἑαυτοῦ θεὸν; α", → α,; ὺ“ → ὺ ; ς““ → ς .

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.46.14 (Funk 1:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-46-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 47

7.47.1Funk 1:454

Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις θεῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς εἰρήνη, ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκία.

Doxa en hypsistois theǭ kai epi gēs eirēnē, en anthrōpois eudokia.

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will among men.”

Luke 2:14 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The morning hymn begins with the angels' song.

Chapter 47 is a morning hymn, an early form of the Gloria in excelsis. Luke 2:14.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,,4ó8a → Δόξα; α“. → α..

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.47.1 (Funk 1:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-47-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.47.2Funk 1:454–456

αἰνοῦμέν σε, ὑμνοῦμέν σε, εὐλογοῦμέν σε, δοξολογοῦμέν σε, προσκυνοῦμέν σε διὰ τοῦ μεγάλου ἀρχιερέως, σὲ τὸν ὄντα θεὸν ἀγέννητον ἕνα, ἀπρόσιτον μόνον, διὰ τὴν μεγάλην σου δόξαν, κύριε βασιλεῦ ἐπουράνιε, θεὲ πάτερ παντοκράτορ.

ainoumen se, hymnoumen se, eulogoumen se, doxologoumen se, proskynoumen se dia tou megalou archiereōs, se ton onta theon agennēton hena, aprositon monon, dia tēn megalēn sou doxan, kyrie basileu epouranie, thee pater pantokrator.

We praise you, we hymn you, we bless you, we glorify you, we worship you through the great high priest, you who are the one unbegotten God, alone inaccessible, for your great glory, O Lord, heavenly King, God the Father almighty.

Notes and citation

Summary: The hymn praises the unbegotten Father through the high priest.

Worship is offered to the Father “through the great high priest”: translated as written.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): os, → σε,; 6e, → σε,.

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.47.2 (Funk 1:454–456; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-47-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.47.3Funk 1:456

κύριε ὃ θεὸς ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ ἀμώμου ἀμνοῦ, ὃς αἴρει τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου, πρόσδεξαι τὴν δέησιν ἡμῶν, ὁ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τῶν Χερουβίμ: ὅτι σὺ μόνος ἅγιος, σὺ μόνος κύριος Ἰησοῦς, Χριστὸς τοῦ θεοῦ πάσης γενητῆς φύσεως, τοῦ βασιλέως ἡμῶν, δι᾽ οὗ σοι δόξα, τιμὴ καὶ σέβας.

kyrie ho theos ho patēr tou Christou tou amōmou amnou, hos airei tēn hamartian tou kosmou, prosdexai tēn deēsin hēmōn, ho kathēmenos epi tōn Cheroubim: hoti sy monos hagios, sy monos kyrios Iēsous, Christos tou theou pasēs genētēs physeōs, tou basileōs hēmōn, di᾽ hou soi doxa, timē kai sebas.

O Lord God, the Father of Christ, the spotless Lamb “who takes away the sin of the world,” receive our prayer, you “who are seated upon the Cherubim”; for you alone are holy, you alone are the Lord, Jesus, the Christ of the God of all originate nature, our King, through whom be glory, honor and reverence to you.

John 1:29 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 80:1 (79:2 LXX) (quotation, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The morning hymn ends with praise through Christ, the Lamb of God.

The text is translated as printed; its wording of the second half of the hymn differs from later forms of the Gloria. John 1:29; Ps 80:1 (79:2 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): »ἀ → ἀ; υ“, → υ,; ,,0 καθήμενος → ὁ καθήμενος; μ“: → μ:; δὲ οὗ σοι → δι᾽ οὗ σοι.

Topics: Prayer, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.47.3 (Funk 1:456; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-47-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 7, chapter 48

7.48.1Funk 1:456

Αἰνεῖτε, παῖδες, κύριον, αἰνεῖτε τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου.

Aineite, paides, kyrion, aineite to onoma kyriou.

“Praise the Lord, you servants, praise the name of the Lord.”

Ps 113:1 (112:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The evening hymn begins with Psalm 113.

Chapter 48 is an evening hymn. Ps 113:1 (112:1 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): υ“. → υ..

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.48.1 (Funk 1:456; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-48-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.48.2Funk 1:456

αἰνοῦμέν σε, ὑμνοῦμέν σε, εὐλογοῦμέν σε διὰ τὴν μεγάλην σου δόξαν, κύριε βασιλεῦ ὃ πατὴρ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ ἀμώμου , ἀμνοῦ, ὃς αἴρει τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου·

ainoumen se, hymnoumen se, eulogoumen se dia tēn megalēn sou doxan, kyrie basileu ho patēr tou Christou tou amōmou , amnou, hos airei tēn hamartian tou kosmou;

We praise you, we hymn you, we bless you for your great glory, O Lord, King, the Father of Christ, the spotless Lamb “who takes away the sin of the world.”

John 1:29 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The Father is praised for his glory.

John 1:29.

Notes on the original text

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

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.48.2 (Funk 1:456; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-48-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.48.3Funk 1:456–458

σοὶ πρέπει αἶνος, σοὶ πρέπει ὕμνος, σοὶ δόξα πρέπει τῷ θεῷ καὶ πατρὶ διὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων· ἀμήν.

soi prepei ainos, soi prepei hymnos, soi doxa prepei tǭ theǭ kai patri dia tou huiou en pneumati hagiǭ eis tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn; amēn.

To you belongs praise, “to you belongs a hymn,” to you belongs glory, to the God and Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

Ps 65:1 (64:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Praise is offered to the Father through the Son in the Spirit.

Footnote references printed in the text (to John and Ps 64:2) are removed. Ps 65:1 (64:2 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: footnote references removed; ἐν): ,,σ → σ; ς“, → ς,; υἱοῦ Ioann. 12 Ps. 64, 2. iv πνεύματι → υἱοῦ ἐν πνεύματι; ν" → ν· .

Topics: Prayer, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.48.3 (Funk 1:456–458; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-48-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.48.4Funk 1:458

Νῦν ἀπολύεις τὸν δοῦλόν σου, δέσποτα, κατὰ τὸ ῥῆμά σου ἐν εἰρήνῃ, ὅτι εἶδον οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου τὸ σωτήριόν σου, ὃ ἡτοίμασας κατὰ πρόσωπον πάντων τῶν λαῶν, φῶς εἰς ἀποκάλυψιν ἐθνῶν καὶ δόξαν λαοῦ σου Ἰσραήλ.

Nyn apolyeis ton doulon sou, despota, kata to rhēma sou en eirēnę̄, hoti eidon hoi ophthalmoi mou to sōtērion sou, ho hētoimasas kata prosōpon pantōn tōn laōn, phōs eis apokalypsin ethnōn kai doxan laou sou Israēl.

“Now you let your servant depart, Master, according to your word, in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared before the face of all the peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of your people Israel.”

Luke 2:29–32 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The hymn ends with the Song of Simeon.

Luke 2:29–32.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ονῦν → Νῦν; iv εἰρήνῃ → ἐν εἰρήνῃ; λ“. → λ..

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 7.48.4 (Funk 1:458; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/7-33-1/#p-7-48-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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