with modesty and fear. Thou shalt not issue orders with bitterness to thy maidservant or thy man-servant, who trust in the same [God263], lest thou shouldst not264 reverence that God who is above both; for He came to call men not according to their outward appear- ance,265 but according as the Spirit had prepared them.266 Thou shalt communicate in all things with thy neighbour; thou shalt not call267 things thine own; for if ye are partakers in common of things which are incorruptible,268 how much more [should you be] of those things which are corruptible!269 Thou shalt not be hasty with thy tongue, for the mouth is a snare of death. As far as possible, thou shalt be pure in thy soul. Do not be ready to stretch forth thy hands to take, whilst thou contractest them to give. Thou shalt love, as the apple of thine eye, every one that speaketh to thee the word of the Lord. Thou shalt remember the day of judgment, night and day. Thou shalt seek out every day the faces of the saints,270 either by word examining them, and going to exhort them, and meditating how to save a soul by the word,271 or by thy hands thou shalt labour for the redemption of thy sins. Thou shalt not hesitate to give, nor murmur when thou givest. “Give to every one that asketh thee,”272 and thou shalt know who is the good Recompenser of the reward. Thou shalt preserve what thou hast received [in charge], neither adding to it nor taking from it. To the last thou shalt hate the wicked273 [one].274 Thou shalt judge righteously. Thou shalt not make a schism, but thou shalt pacify those that contend by bringing them together. Thou 149 shalt confess thy sins. Thou shalt not go to prayer with an evil conscience. This is the way of light.275 263 Inserted in Cod. Sin. 264 Cod. Sin. has, “they should not.” 265 Comp. Eph. vi. 9. 266 Comp. Rom. viii. 29, 30. 267 Cod. Sin. has, “and not call.” 268 Cod. Sin. has, “in that which is incorruptible.” 269 Cod. Sin. has, “in things that are subject to death,” but is corrected as above. 270 Or, “the persons of the saints.” Cod. Sin. omits this clause, but it is added by the corrector. 271 The text is here confused in all the editions; we have followed that of Dressel. Cod. Sin. is defective. Hil- genfeld’s text reads, “Thou shalt seek out every day the faces of the saints, either labouring by word and going to exhort them, and meditating to save a soul by the word, or by thy hands thou shalt labour for the redemption of thy sins”—almost identical with that given above. 272 Cod. Sin. omits this quotation from Matt. v. 42 or Luke vi. 30, but it is added by a corrector. 273 Cod. Sin. has, “hate evil.” 274 Cod. Sin. inserts “and.” 275 Cod. Sin. omits this clause: it is inserted by a corrector. 401 Chapter XIX.—The way of light.