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You shall have no other gods besides me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, nor any likeness of anything whatever that is in heaven above or whatever is in the earth beneath: you shall not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord your God. Likewise there: And the Lord said to Moses: These things you shall say to the house of Jacob, and you shall testify to the children of Israel, saying: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven: you shall not make for yourselves gods of silver nor gods of gold, nor shall you make for yourselves an idol. Likewise there: He who sacrifices to gods shall be uprooted, unless to the Lord alone. Likewise there: And you shall not remember the names of strange gods, neither let them be heard from your mouth. Likewise there: You shall not adore their gods, nor serve them.
You shall not do according to their works, but you shall cast down and destroy and break in pieces their images, and you shall serve the Lord your God. And I will bless your bread and your water, and I will turn away sickness from you. Likewise there: Take heed to yourself, lest perchance you make a covenant with those who dwell upon the land into which you are about to enter, lest they become an offense among you. Their altars you shall destroy, and their pillars you shall break down, and their sacred groves you shall cut down. For you shall not adore another god: for I am the Lord your God: jealous is my name, a jealous God is he. Lest perchance you make a covenant with those who dwell upon the land, and commit fornication after their gods, and they invite you and you eat of their sacrifices:
and you take of their daughters for your sons, and give your daughters to their sons: and your daughters commit fornication after their gods. And you shall not make for yourselves molten gods. Likewise in Leviticus: You shall not serve idols, and you shall not make for yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God. Likewise there: Do not eat upon the mountains: you shall not observe omens, you shall not practice augury. Likewise there: You shall not follow those with familiar spirits, and to enchanters you shall not cling, so as to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God. Likewise there: And the soul that follows after those with familiar spirits or enchanters, so as to commit fornication by going after them, I will set my face against that soul and destroy it from among its people.
And you shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. Likewise there: You shall not make for yourselves idols made by hand, nor graven images, nor shall you set up standing stones for yourselves, nor shall you place a carved transparent stone in your land, that you may adore them: I am the Lord your God. Likewise in Numbers: And you shall take away their watchtowers, and all their molten images you shall destroy, and all their set-up stones you shall take away. Likewise in Deuteronomy:
See that you do not commit iniquity, nor make for yourselves a graven likeness of male or female, or the likeness of any beast that is upon the earth, or the likeness of birds flying under heaven, or the likeness of serpents upon the earth, or the likeness of fish that are in the waters under the earth. And lest, looking up to heaven and seeing the sun and the moon or the stars and all the ornaments of heaven, you go astray and adore them, and serve those things which God has apportioned to all the nations that are under heaven. But you God has taken up and brought out from the iron furnace, out of Egypt, that you might be a people for his inheritance to this day. Likewise there:
Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a graven likeness of any of the things which the Lord your God forbade you: because the Lord your God is a consuming and jealous fire. Likewise there: Their altars you shall cast down, and their pillars you shall break in pieces, and their sacred groves you shall cut down, and their graven images you shall burn with fire: because you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God has chosen you for himself, that you might be to him an everlasting people above all the nations that are upon the face of the earth. Likewise there: The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you sin because of it:
because it is an abomination to the Lord your God. Nor shall you bring filthiness into your house. You shall be accursed, just as it is. With hatred you shall hate them, and with abhorrence you shall abhor them, for it is accursed. Likewise there: And it shall be, if you forget the Lord your God and go after strange gods, and serve them and adore them, behold, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that you shall utterly perish: just as the other nations also, which the Lord God is about to destroy from before your face, so shall you perish, if you do not hear the voice of the Lord your God. Likewise there: If you are sons of God, you shall not fear, and you shall not practice divination. Likewise there:
Cursed is the man who makes a graven or molten thing, an abomination to God, the work of craftsmen's hands, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people answering shall say: Amen, amen. Likewise there: They sacrificed to demons and not to God, to gods whom they had not known. New ones came, whom their fathers did not know. Likewise there: See, see that I am he, and there is no God besides me. I will kill and I will make alive, I will strike and I myself will heal, and there is none who can deliver out of my hands. Likewise in the book of Joshua son of Nun: And therefore be exceedingly strong to keep and to do all the things that are written in the book of the law of Moses, that you turn not to the right hand or to the left. And that you do not, going in to these nations, associate with them.
And the names of their gods shall not even be named among you, neither shall you serve them, nor adore them, but you shall cling to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day. And the Lord himself has destroyed them from before your face. Likewise there: And Joshua said to the people: If you serve strange gods, you shall not be able to serve the Lord, because the Lord is holy: and when he is jealous of you, you shall not patiently bear your sins: but on the day you forsake the Lord, wrath coming upon you shall afflict you and destroy you. Why should you serve strange gods, when he has done well by you in all things? And the people answered Joshua, saying: We will not adore strange gods, but we will serve our God. And Joshua said to the people:
You yourselves therefore are witnesses that you have chosen to serve the Lord. And now put away the gods of foreigners that are among you, and direct your heart to the Lord God of Israel. And all the people answered Joshua, saying: We will serve the Lord, and we will hear his voice. Likewise in First Kingdoms: And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying: If with your whole heart you turn to the Lord, put away the strange gods from your midst, and cut down their sacred groves, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him alone, and he will deliver you from the hand of the foreigners. And when they heard this, the children of Israel put away the Baals, and turned away the groves of Astaroth, and served the Lord alone. Likewise in Psalm 80:
Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify to you. O Israel, if you will hear me, there shall be no new god in you, nor shall you adore a strange god: for I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Likewise in Psalm 95: For all the gods of the nations are demons, but the Lord made the heavens. Likewise in Psalm 96: Let all be confounded who adore graven images, who glory in their idols. Likewise in Psalm 113: The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands: they have a mouth, and shall not speak: they have eyes, and shall not see: they have ears, and shall not hear: they have nostrils, and shall not smell: they have hands, and shall not feel: they have feet, and shall not walk:
they shall not cry out in their throat, for there is no breath in their mouth. Let those who make them become like them, and all who trust in them! Likewise in the Book of Wisdom: Neither, by attending to the works, did they recognize who the craftsman was, but they supposed either fire, or wind, or swift air, or the circle of stars, or vast water, or the sun or the moon, to be the gods that govern the world: and if it was because of their beauty that they esteemed them so, let them know how much more beautiful than these is their Lord: for the author of beauty established all these things. Likewise there:
But unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have called gods the works of men's hands, gold and silver and the invention of art and the likeness of animals, or a useless stone, the work of an ancient hand. Likewise there: He is not ashamed to speak with that which is without a soul: and for health indeed he beseeches the weak, and for life he asks the dead, and for a journey he petitions that which cannot walk: and concerning gain and concerning labor and concerning the outcome of all things he petitions that which is in all things incapable. Likewise there: For the beginning of fornication is the seeking out of idols, and the invention of them is the corruption of life. Likewise in the prophet Isaiah: And you shall abominate the silvered and gilded images:
you shall make their face crumble to bits, and you shall scatter them like the water of an unclean woman, and like dung you shall carry them away. Then there shall be rain for the seed of your land, and bread from the produce of your land, and it shall be in fullness and fatness. Likewise there: Let them draw near and announce to us the things that are to come, or tell the former things that have been, and we will attend with our mind, and we will know the last things and the things that are to come in the last time, and we will know that you are gods. Do good or do harm, and we will marvel, and we will see. For whence are you, and whence is your fabrication? From the land of abomination they chose you. For among the nations, behold, there is none, nor any of their idols who declares. And if I ask: Whence are you? they will not answer me:
for there are those who make you, and who vainly seduce you. Likewise there: Be red with shame, you who trust in graven images, who say to molten images: You are our gods. You deaf, hear; and you blind, look up, that you may see. And who are blind, except my children? And who are deaf, except those who rule over them? And the servants of God are blinded. Likewise there: Have you not heard from the beginning, and have I not declared to you? You are my witnesses, whether there is a God besides me. And then there were none who could form and carve a god. All are vain who make those things that please their own minds, which shall not profit them: but all shall be ashamed who form a god and carve useless things. And all from whom they were made have withered: for they are deaf, apart from men.
Know that their heart is ashes, and they go astray, and no one can deliver their soul. See therefore, you shall not say that there is a lie in my right hand. Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel, for you are my servant: and, O Israel, do not forget me. For behold, I have blotted out your iniquities like snow, and your sins like a mist. Likewise there: Remember these things and groan: repent, you who go astray: turn back from your heart, and call to mind the things of former ages, that I am the Lord and there is none besides me. Likewise there: This people that provokes me is always against me:
these sacrifice in gardens and burn incense upon bricks to demons which are nothing, and they sleep in tombs and in caves on account of dreams, those who eat swine's flesh. Likewise in the prophet Jeremiah: Thus says the Lord: Do not walk according to the ways of the nations, and do not fear the signs of heaven, fearing at the sight of their face: for the ordinances of the nations are vain: a tree cut from the forest, the work of the craftsman and cast, they are adorned with silver and gold, and with hammers and nails they fasten them: and they shall not be moved, for they are fixed. Likewise there: Is there any among the idols of the nations who sends rain? And if heaven will give its fullness, are you not he yourself? And we will wait for you, O Lord, for you have made all these things. Likewise there:
O Lord, my strength and my help, and my refuge in the day of evils. To you the nations shall come from the ends of the earth and say: How false are the idols our fathers possessed! And there is no profit in them. If a man makes for himself gods, yet these are not gods. Likewise in the prophet Hosea: But I am the Lord your God, who make firm the heaven and create the earth, whose hands created all the host of heaven, and I did not show them to you that you should go after them. Likewise in the prophet Ezekiel: Their silver shall be cast out in the streets, and their gold shall be scattered: their souls shall not be satisfied, and their bellies shall not be filled. For the torment of their iniquities has come to pass.
The choice things of the world they set up for pride, and out of them they made the images of their abominations. Likewise in Daniel: And Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered Nebuchadnezzar: We have no need to answer you concerning this matter: for there is a God in heaven, whom we serve, mighty to deliver us from the furnace of burning fire and to snatch us out of your hands and to save us. Know therefore, O king, that we do not serve your gods, and the image which you have set up we do not adore. Likewise the apostle Paul to the Corinthians, First: Concerning the foods of those who sacrifice, therefore, we know that an idol is nothing and that there is no God but one. Likewise there: What then do I say? That what is sacrificed to idols is anything? Not that the idol is anything.
but the things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons. I do not want you to become partners of demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. Likewise to the Galatians: Then indeed, not knowing God, you served those who are not gods: but now, since you have known God, or rather have been known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, which you wish to serve again? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I fear lest perhaps I have labored among you in vain. Be as I am, for I too am as you are. Likewise John the apostle: Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Likewise in the Acts of the Apostles:
Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divine is like gold or silver or stone, the work of art and of man's imagination. Likewise in the Apocalypse: If anyone adores the beast and its image, and receives its mark on his forehead or on his right hand, he too shall drink of the wrath of God, which is mingled unmixed in the cup of his anger, and he shall be tormented. In First Corinthians, chapter XI: What then do I say, that what is sacrificed to idols is anything... up to ...the cup of demons. To the Galatians, chapter V: But then indeed, not knowing God, you served those who by nature are not gods... up to ...Be as I am, for I too am as you are. In the First Epistle of John, chapter XX: Little children, keep yourselves from idols. In the Acts of the Apostles, chapter XLVIII:
Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think of the divine as being like gold or silver... up to ...the divine to be like. In the Apocalypse, chapter XXXIII: If anyone adores the beast and its image... with fire and brimstone in the sight of the angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever, and they have no rest day or night, those who adore the beast and its image, and whoever has received the mark of its name. XLV. THAT ONE MUST NOT COMMIT FORNICATION. In Exodus: You shall not commit fornication. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. Likewise in Leviticus: Whatever man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, let him die the death, both the one who has committed adultery and she who has committed adultery. Whoever lies with his kinswoman has uncovered the shame of his kindred: they shall die without children.
Whoever takes his brother's wife, it is uncleanness, he has uncovered his brother's shame: they shall die without children. Likewise in Deuteronomy: You shall not commit adultery. Likewise there: There shall be no fornicator among the sons of Israel, and there shall be no harlot among the daughters of Israel. Likewise in the Proverbs of Solomon: But a woman captures the precious souls of men. Can a man bind fire in his bosom, and not burn his garments? Or will he walk upon coals of fire, and not burn his feet? So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife: he shall not be unpunished, nor shall anyone who touches her. XLV. THAT ONE MUST NOT COMMIT FORNICATION. In Exodus, chapter XI: You shall not commit adultery... up to ...nor shall you desire his wife. In Leviticus, chapter XII:
If a man commits adultery with another's wife... up to ...because they have wrought wickedness: their blood shall be upon them. In Deuteronomy, chapter IIII: You shall not commit adultery. Likewise in Deuteronomy, chapter XIII: There shall be no harlot among the daughters of Israel, nor any whoremonger among the sons of Israel. In Psalm 72: For behold, those who remove themselves far from you shall perish... up to ...in the gates of the daughter of Zion. In Proverbs, chapter VII: But a woman captures the precious soul of a man... up to ...so he who goes in to his neighbor's wife shall not be unpunished, nor anyone who touches her. Likewise there: But the adulterer, through want of sense, procures the destruction of his own soul, he shall suffer pains and disgraces, and his reproach shall not be blotted out. Likewise there:
An iniquitous thought is an abomination to the Lord, but the words of the holy are chaste. Likewise there: The father of a man who loves wisdom rejoices, but he who feeds harlots wastes his riches. Likewise in Ecclesiasticus: Do not give your soul to harlots in anything, lest you destroy yourself and your inheritance. Likewise in Job: If my heart has followed after my eye, or if I have handled a bribe with my hands, may I be scattered and not gathered together. Or if my sense has followed after another man's wife, or if I have lain in wait at her doors in lust, may my wife be taken away, and given to another. Likewise in Ecclesiasticus: Wine and women make wise men apostatize, and they convict men of sense. And he who joins himself to harlots will be worthless:
rottenness and worms shall inherit him. Likewise in the prophet Jeremiah: They have become like maddened horses after women! Each one goes in to his neighbor's wife, to the woman of his neighbor: he shall not be clean when he has touched her. Likewise chapter VII: But he who is an adulterer, through want of heart... up to ...and his reproach shall not be blotted out. Likewise chapter XXVIIII: The man who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but he who nourishes harlots wastes his substance. In Ecclesiasticus, chapter VII: Do not give your soul to harlots in anything, lest you destroy yourself and your inheritance. In Hosea, chapter: All the princes are adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker. In Job, chapter:
And if my eye has followed my heart, and a stain has clung to my hands... up to ...may my wife be another's harlot and may others bow down upon her. Likewise in Ecclesiasticus, chapter XI: Wine and women make wise men apostatize... up to ...and rottenness and worms shall inherit him. In Jeremiah, chapter: I filled them full, and they committed adultery, and in the harlot's house he neighed. Shall I not visit for these things, says the Lord, or shall not my soul take vengeance on such a nation? Likewise Tobit to his son: But take heed to yourself against all fornication. Likewise in Psalm 72: For behold, those who remove themselves far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all who commit fornication away from you.
But for me it is good to cling to God, to put my hope in God, that I may tell forth all your promises in the gates of the daughter of Zion. Likewise in the prophet Hosea: All the princes who commit adultery are like an oven burning for baking, a blaze of flame. Likewise in the Gospel according to Matthew: You have heard that it was said: You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Likewise there: Everyone who dismisses his wife and marries another commits adultery: and whoever marries her who has been dismissed by her husband commits adultery. Likewise the apostle Paul to the Corinthians, First: Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her? For the two shall be one flesh. But he who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin whatever a man commits is outside the body: but he who commits fornication sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your members are the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought with a price. Glorify and bear the Lord in your body. XLVI. ON THE NEGLIGENCE OF PRIESTS. In the prophet Jeremiah: And the priests did not say: Where is God? And the keepers of my law did not know me, and the shepherds acted impiously against me. Likewise there: Horrible things have been done upon the earth:
the prophets prophesy wickedly, and the priests clap with their hands, and my people have loved them. What will you do in the time to come? Likewise there: From the priest even to the false prophet, all have committed falsehood, saying: Peace, peace. And where is peace? Likewise there: How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain has your measuring line been made. The scribes have been confounded, the wise men have been dismayed, because they have rejected the word of the Lord: what wisdom is there in them? Likewise there: Your tabernacle has been made wretched, it has perished, and all its coverings have been torn asunder: because the shepherds have acted foolishly, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they have not understood. Likewise there:
Therefore thus says the Lord against the shepherds who rule my people: You have scattered my sheep, and driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I take vengeance on you according to your evil endeavors. And I will raise up for them shepherds who will feed them: and they shall no more fear nor be dismayed, says the Lord. Likewise in the prophet Hosea: The priests have hidden the way of the Lord, and fire has consumed their judges, and there was none among them who called upon me. Likewise in the prophet Micah: And the priests answered for reward, and they rested upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in our midst? Likewise in the prophet Jeremiah: O evil shepherds!
you have corrupted my sheep, teaching them according to your own wills, and you have not taught them the things that are true. Likewise in the prophet Zephaniah: Her priests defile holy things and reject the law. Likewise in the prophet Malachi: You priests, who deceive my name, and have said: In what have we deceived your name? By offering polluted bread upon my altar. I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord almighty, and I will not accept a sacrifice from your hands. Likewise in the prophet Ezekiel: And therefore, shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: behold, you devour the milk, and clothe yourselves with their wool, and you have slaughtered what was fat, and you have scattered my sheep:
the weak you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not healed, and the broken you have not bound up, and the straying you have not turned back, and what was perishing you have not sought, and the strong you have oppressed with labor. And my sheep were scattered because there were no shepherds, and they became food for all the beasts of the field. And my sheep were scattered upon every mountain and upon every high hill, and upon the face of all the earth they were scattered, and there was none who sought them nor any who called them back. Likewise in the prophet Malachi: You who have provoked the Lord with your words, and have said: In what have we provoked him? In that you say: Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he is pleased with them. And where is the God of justice?
Likewise in the prophet Hosea: Their sacrifices are like the bread of mourning: all who eat them shall be defiled. Likewise in Numbers: Separate yourselves from the tents of these most hardened men, and touch nothing of all that is theirs, lest you perish together in their sin. XLVII. ON THE SANCTIFICATION OF PRIESTS OR OF THOSE WHO MINISTER TO GOD, AND ON THE WHOLE ORDERING OF ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE. In Exodus: And let the priests who approach the Lord be sanctified, lest perchance the Lord forsake them. Likewise there: And you shall make for them linen breeches, that they may cover the shame of their body, from the loins to the knees. Likewise there: Everyone who touches the altar shall be sanctified. Likewise in Leviticus:
They shall be holy to their Lord, and they shall not defile the name of the Lord their God, and they themselves shall offer gifts, and they shall be holy. They shall not take a harlot or a defiled woman, they shall not take a woman cast off by her husband, because they are holy to the Lord their God. And you shall sanctify them. For they offer the gifts of the Lord your God: they shall be holy, for I the Lord who sanctify them am holy. Likewise there: And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying: Wine and strong drink you shall not drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter the tabernacle of the testimony, or when you approach the altar, lest you die. Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. Likewise in First Chronicles:
And David called Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and the Levites Ariel, Asaiah, Joel, Aminadab. And he said to them: You are the chiefs of the families of the Levites, sanctify yourselves and your brethren, and bring back the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it. And the priests and the Levites were purified, that they might carry the ark of the Lord of Israel. Likewise the apostle Paul to Titus: For this reason I left you in Crete, that you might correct the things that were lacking, and appoint elders throughout the cities, as I disposed for you. If any man is without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riotous living, or unruly.
For a bishop must be without crime, as a steward of God, not proud, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not eager for base gain: but hospitable, kindly, prudent, just, holy, self-controlled, holding fast the faithful word according to the doctrine, that he may be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict. For there are many who are also disobedient, vain talkers and seducers. Likewise to Timothy, First: It is a human saying: If anyone desires the office of a bishop, he desires a good work.