Ethiopic Didascalia

Ethiopic Didascalia — Platt English translation page 4

like manner, he who will do these things shall be condemned with the adulterers. And, behold, he that thinketh in his heart, and desireth to take by violence his neighbour's ox or his ass or his field, and continues through his hfe doing after this manner, he shall be numbered with the adulterers. For the prophet saith. Woe unto them that join house to house, and add field to field, and wall to wall, that they may seize upon that which is not their own ! And again he saith. Know ye that dwell upon the earth, that this matter hath been heard in the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. And in the Law He saith. Cursed be he that stealeth his neighbour's land-mark : and the people shall say. So be it. And for this cause Moses said. Desire not the boundary of thy neighbour, and remove not the law which thy fathers have ordained. Through these things come fear and death and confusion ; and judgment shall overtake them fiom the Lord, against those who do these things. But they who hear the word of the Lord, and keep his enlightening law with faith, these shall find loving-kindness and mercy. For He saith. That which thou hatest for thyself, do not against thy neighbour. And as thou wouldest not that another, no, not any man, should look upon thy wife, to turn her aside unto evil, so likevdse do not thou look upon the wife of another with evil thoughts. As thou wouldest not that 4