neighbour's, nor shalt thou be avaricious. Thou shalt not be joined in soul with the haughty, but thou shalt be reckoned with the righteous and lowly. Receive thou as good things tlie trials '^ which come upon thee.'^ Thou shalt not be of double mind or of double tongue,"* for a double tongue is a snare of death. Thou shalt be sub- ject '5 to the Lord, and to [other] masters as the image of God, with modesty and fear. Thou shalt not issue orders with bitterness to thy maid- servant or thy man-servant, who trust in the same [God '^], lest thou shouldst not '7 reverence that God who is above both ; for He came to call men not according to their outward appearance,'** but according as the Spirit had prepared them.'^ Thou shalt communicate in all things with thy neighbour; thou shalt not calP° things thine own ; for if ye are partakers in common of things which are incorruptible,^' how much more [should you be] of those things which are cor- ruptible ! ^^ 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,^^ either by word examin- ing them, and going to exhort them, and medi- tating how to save a soul by the word,^'* 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," ^s 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 wicked -'^ [one] .^7 Thou shalt judge righteously. Thou shalt not make a schism, but thou shalt pacify those that contend by bringing them together. Thou shalt