Apostolic Constitutions, Books I-VIII — ANF VII English translation (J. Donaldson) — VI-sec-IV
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Apostolic Constitutions, Books I-VIII — ANF VII English translation (J. Donaldson)
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By whom also we exhort you in the Lord to abstain from your old conversation, vain bonds, separations, observances, distinction of meats, and daily washings: for “old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” XIX. For since ye have known God through Jesus Christ, and all His dispensation, as it has been from the beginning, that He gave a plain law to assist the law of nature, such a one as is pure, saving, and holy, in which His own name was inscribed, perfect, which is never to fail, being complete in ten commands, unspotted, converting souls; which, when the Hebrews forgot…
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