Apostolic Constitutions 2.19.1–2.25.9

Anonymous · Apostolic Constitutions · ca. 380 · Antioch (probably) · 44 passages

Pseudonymous: Presented as the teaching of the apostles, handed down by Clement of Rome; the compiler is anonymous (often linked with the interpolator of the long recension of Ignatius).

Greek text: Funk 1905.English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).

Apostolic 2, chapter 19

2.19.1Funk 1:71

ἀκούσατε, οἱ ἐπίσκοποι, καὶ ἀκούσατε, οἱ λαϊκοί, ὥς φησιν ὃ θεός" ,Κρινῶ κριὸν πρὸς κριὸν καὶ πρόβατον πρὸς πρόβατον“, καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ποιμένας λέγει. Κριθήσεσθε ἕνεκεν τῆς ἀπειρίας αὑτῶν καὶ τῆς εἰς τὰ πρόβατα διαφθορᾶς, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστιν ἐπίσκοπον πρὸς ἐπίσκοπον κρινῶ καὶ λαϊκὸν πρὸς λαϊκὸν καὶ ἄρχοντα πρὸς ἄρχοντα.

akousate, hoi episkopoi, kai akousate, hoi laïkoi, hōs phēsin ho theos" ,Krinō krion pros krion kai probaton pros probaton“, kai pros tous poimenas legei. Krithēsesthe heneken tēs apeirias hautōn kai tēs eis ta probata diaphthoras, tout᾽ estin episkopon pros episkopon krinō kai laïkon pros laïkon kai archonta pros archonta.

Hear, you bishops, and hear, you laity, how God says: “I will judge between ram and ram, and sheep and sheep”; and to the shepherds he says, You will be judged for your unskilfulness and for the ruin of the sheep; that is, I will judge bishop against bishop, layman against layman, and ruler against ruler.

Ezek 34:17 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God will judge bishops, laymen and rulers each against their peers.

Ezek 34:17.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ἕνεχεν → ἕνεκεν; ἐπίσχοπον → ἐπίσκοπον.

Topics: Church office, Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.19.1 (Funk 1:71; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-19-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Funk, Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum (1905; OCR made for this site, slips corrected as logged corrections) and compared afterwards with ANF 7.

2.19.2Funk 1:71

λογικὰ γὰρ τὰ πρόβατα καὶ οἱ κριοὶ οὗτοι, ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἄλογα, ἵνα μήποτε εἴπῃ ὃ λαϊκός, ὅτε ἐγὼ πρόβατόν εἰμι καὶ οὐ ποιμήν.

logika gar ta probata kai hoi krioi houtoi, all᾽ ouk aloga, hina mēpote eipę̄ ho laïkos, hote egō probaton eimi kai ou poimēn.

For these sheep and rams are rational, not irrational, lest the layman should ever say, “I am a sheep and not a shepherd.”

Notes and citation

Summary: Laymen are rational sheep and answerable for themselves.

The layman’s excuse implies that only the shepherd is accountable.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.19.2 (Funk 1:71; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-19-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.19.3Funk 1:71

ὥσπερ δὲ τῷ καλῷ ποιμένι τὸ μὴ ἀκολουθοῦν πρόβατον λύκοις ἔκκειται εἰς διαφθοράν, οὕτως τῷ πονηρῷ ποιμένι τὸ ἀκολουθοῦν πρόδηλον ἔχει τὸν θάνατον, ὅτι κατατρώξεται αὐτό. διὸ φευκτέον ἀπὸ τῶν φθορέων ποιμένων.

hōsper de tǭ kalǭ poimeni to mē akolouthoun probaton lykois ekkeitai eis diaphthoran, houtōs tǭ ponērǭ poimeni to akolouthoun prodēlon echei ton thanaton, hoti katatrōxetai auto. dio pheukteon apo tōn phthoreōn poimenōn.

For as with a good shepherd the sheep that does not follow is exposed to wolves for destruction, so with a wicked shepherd the sheep that follows has death plainly before it, because he will devour it. Therefore one must flee from corrupting shepherds.

Notes and citation

Summary: Following a wicked shepherd is deadly, so corrupt shepherds must be avoided.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ἀχολουθοῦν → ἀκολουθοῦν; ποιμένε → ποιμένι; κατατρόξεται → κατατρώξεται.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.19.3 (Funk 1:71; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-19-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 2, chapter 20

2.20.1Funk 1:71–73

Τὸν μέντοι ποιμένα τὸν ἀγαθὸν ὁ λαϊκὸς τιμάτω, ἀγαπάτω, φοβείσθω ὡς πατέρα, ὡς κύριον, ὡς δεσπότην, ὡς ἀρχιερέα θεοῦ, ὡς διδάσκαλον εὐσεβείας" ὁ γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἀκούων Χριστοῦ ἀκούει, καὶ ὁ αὐτὸν ἀθετῶν Χριστὸν ἀθετεῖ, καὶ ὃ τὸν Χριστὸν μὴ δεχόμενος οὐ δέχεται τὸν αὐτοῦ θεὸν καὶ πατέρα. ,,Ὁ ὑμῶν“ γάρ, φησίν, ,,ἀκούων ἐμοῦ ἀκούει, καὶ ὁ ὑμᾶς ἀθετῶν ἐμὲ ἀθετεῖ, καὶ ὁ ἐμὲ ἀθετῶν ἀθετεῖ τὸν ἀποστείλαντά με“.

Ton mentoi poimena ton agathon ho laïkos timatō, agapatō, phobeisthō hōs patera, hōs kyrion, hōs despotēn, hōs archierea theou, hōs didaskalon eusebeias" ho gar autou akouōn Christou akouei, kai ho auton athetōn Christon athetei, kai ho ton Christon mē dechomenos ou dechetai ton autou theon kai patera. ,,Ho hymōn“ gar, phēsin, ,,akouōn emou akouei, kai ho hymas athetōn eme athetei, kai ho eme athetōn athetei ton aposteilanta me“.

Let the layman honour the good shepherd, love him, fear him as father, as lord, as master, as high priest of God, as teacher of piety. For he who hears him hears Christ, and he who rejects him rejects Christ, and he who does not receive Christ does not receive his God and Father. For “he who hears you,” it says, “hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Luke 10:16 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The laity must honour a good bishop, since to hear him is to hear Christ.

Luke 10:16.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): »Ὁ ὑμῶν“ γάρ, φησίν, ,ἀκούων → ,,Ὁ ὑμῶν“ γάρ, φησίν, ,,ἀκούων; καὶ Ó ἐμὲ → καὶ ὁ ἐμὲ; τὸν ἀποστείλαντά us". → τὸν ἀποστείλαντά με“..

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.20.1 (Funk 1:71–73; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-20-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.20.2Funk 1:73

ὁμοίως ὃ ἐπίσκοπος ὡς τέκνα τοὺς λαϊκοὺς ἀγαπάτω, θέλγων καὶ θερμαίνων τῇ σπουδῇ τῆς ἀγάπης ὡς ὠὰ εἰς περιποίησιν νοσσίων ἢ ὡς νοσσία ἀγκαλιζόμενος εἰς περιποίησιν ὀρνίθων, πάντας νουθετῶν, πᾶσι τοῖς πληκτισμοῦ ἐπιδεομένοις ἐπιπλήσσων, ἀλλὰ μὴ πλήσσων, ὑποπιέζων εἰς ἐντροπήν, ἀλλὰ μὴ εἰς ἀνατροπήν, νουθετῶν εἰς ἐπιστροφήν, ἐπιτιμῶν εἰς διόρθωσιν καὶ εὐθύτητα πορείας:

homoiōs ho episkopos hōs tekna tous laïkous agapatō, thelgōn kai thermainōn tę̄ spoudę̄ tēs agapēs hōs ōa eis peripoiēsin nossiōn ē hōs nossia ankalizomenos eis peripoiēsin ornithōn, pantas nouthetōn, pasi tois plēktismou epideomenois epiplēssōn, alla mē plēssōn, hypopiezōn eis entropēn, alla mē eis anatropēn, nouthetōn eis epistrophēn, epitimōn eis diorthōsin kai euthytēta poreias:

Likewise let the bishop love the laity as children, cherishing and warming them with the zeal of love, as eggs are warmed for the hatching of chicks, or as one holding chicks in his arms that they may be reared into birds; admonishing all, reproving all who need reproof, but not striking; pressing them down to shame, but not to overthrow; admonishing for conversion, rebuking for correction and straightness of path:

Notes and citation

Summary: The bishop must love the laity as children and correct them gently.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): τέχνα → τέκνα; ἐπιπλήσccv → ἐπιπλήσσων.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.20.2 (Funk 1:73; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-20-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.20.3Funk 1:73

,,Τὸ ἰσχυρὸν φυλάσσων“, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστι τὸ ἑδραῖον τῇ πίστει ἀσφαλὲς τηρῶν, τὸν λαὸν εἰρηνικῶς ποιμαίνων" ,,τὸ ἐνοχλούμενον ἐνισχύων“, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστι τὸ πειραζόμενον ἐν τῇ νουθεσίᾳ στερροποιῶν᾽ ,,τὸ ἀρρωστοῦν ἰώμενος“, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστι τὸ νοσοῦν ἐκ τῆς πίστεως ἐν διχονοίᾳ διὰ τῆς διδασκαλίας θεραπεύωνʼ

,,To ischyron phylassōn“, tout᾽ esti to hedraion tę̄ pistei asphales tērōn, ton laon eirēnikōs poimainōn" ,,to enochloumenon enischyōn“, tout᾽ esti to peirazomenon en tę̄ nouthesią sterropoiōn᾽ ,,to arrōstoun iōmenos“, tout᾽ esti to nosoun ek tēs pisteōs en dichonoią dia tēs didaskalias therapeuōnʼ

“keeping the strong,” that is, keeping secure the one firm in faith, and shepherding the people peaceably; “strengthening the weak,” that is, making firm by admonition the one who is tempted; “healing the sick,” that is, curing by teaching the one who is sick in faith through doubt;

Ezek 34:16 (allusion, high confidence) · Ezek 34:4 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Ezekiel’s shepherd duties are explained: guarding the strong, strengthening the tempted, healing doubters.

Ezek 34:16, 4.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ,T0 ἰσχυρὸν → ,,Τὸ ἰσχυρὸν; »τὸ ἐνοχλούμενον → ,,τὸ ἐνοχλούμενον; γνουθεσίᾳ → νουθεσίᾳ; ,tó ἀρρωστοῦν → ,,τὸ ἀρρωστοῦν; πίστεως iv διχονοίᾳ → πίστεως ἐν διχονοίᾳ.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.20.3 (Funk 1:73; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-20-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.20.4Funk 1:73

,,τὸ συντετριμμένον καταδεσμῶν“, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστι τὸ πεπλανημένον ἢ τὸ τεθραυσμένον ἢ τὸ κατεαγμένον ἐν ἁμαρτίαις εἰς χωλείαν ὁδοῦ ἐπιδεσμῶν διὰ παρακλητικῆς νουθεσίας, ἐλαφρύνων ἀπὸ παραπτωμάτων καὶ εὔελπιν ποιῶν, οὕτως ῥωμαλέον ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἀποκαθίστα, ἐπανάγων ἐν τῇ ποίμνῃ· ,,τὸ ἐξωσμένον ἐπίστρεφε“, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστι τὸ ἐν ἁμαρτίαις γενόμενον καὶ εἰς ἐπιτίμησιν ἐκβεβλημένον μὴ ἐῶν ἔξω διαμένειν, ἀλλὰ προσλαμβανόμενος καὶ ἐπιστρέφων ἀποκαθίστα ἐν τῇ ποίμνῃ, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστιν ἐν τῷ λαῷ τῆς ἀμώμου ἐκκλησίας.

,,to syntetrimmenon katadesmōn“, tout᾽ esti to peplanēmenon ē to tethrausmenon ē to kateagmenon en hamartiais eis chōleian hodou epidesmōn dia paraklētikēs nouthesias, elaphrynōn apo paraptōmatōn kai euelpin poiōn, houtōs rhōmaleon en tę̄ ekklēsią apokathista, epanagōn en tę̄ poimnę̄; ,,to exōsmenon epistrephe“, tout᾽ esti to en hamartiais genomenon kai eis epitimēsin ekbeblēmenon mē eōn exō diamenein, alla proslambanomenos kai epistrephōn apokathista en tę̄ poimnę̄, tout᾽ estin en tǭ laǭ tēs amōmou ekklēsias.

“binding up the broken,” that is, bandaging with consoling admonition the one who has strayed, or been crushed or broken by sins so as to go lame on the road, relieving him of his transgressions and giving him good hope; so restore him strong in the church, bringing him back into the flock. “Bring back the one driven out,” that is, do not allow the one who has fallen into sins and been cast out as a penalty to remain outside, but receive him, bring him back, and restore him in the flock, that is, among the people of the blameless church.

Ezek 34:16 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The bishop must bind up those broken by sin and bring back the excommunicated into the flock.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): οτὸ συντετριμμένον → ,,τὸ συντετριμμένον; àAaφρύνων → ἐλαφρύνων; δωμαλέον → ῥωμαλέον; ἐπανάγων iv τῇ ποίμνῃ" τὸ ἐξωσμένον → ἐπανάγων ἐν τῇ ποίμνῃ· ,,τὸ ἐξωσμένον; ἀποχαθίστα → ἀποκαθίστα.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.20.4 (Funk 1:73; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-20-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.20.5Funk 1:73–75

,,τὸ δὲ ἀπολωλὸς ἐκζήτει“, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστι τὸ ὑπὸ πλήθους παραπτωμάτων ἑαυτοῦ ἀπελπίσαν τῆς σωτηρίας μὴ ἐάσῃς τελέως ἀπολέσθαι, τὸ ὑπὸ πολλῆς ψύξεως καὶ νωχελίας κάθυπνον γενόμενον καὶ διὰ βαρέος ὕπνου τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ζωῆς ἐπιλαθόμενον καὶ μακρὰν ἀποστατῆσαν τῆς ἰδίας ποίμνης, ὡς καὶ λύκοις περιπεσεῖν εἰς βοράν, σὺ ἀναζήτει καὶ νουθετῶν ἐπίστρεφε καὶ νήφειν παρακάλει καὶ ἐλπίδα ὑπόσπειρε, μὴ συγχωρῶν αὐτῷ λέγειν τὸ ὑπό τινων εἰρημένον, ὅτε τὰ ἀσεβήματα ἡμῶν ἐφ᾽ ἡμῖν, καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐν αὐτοῖς τηκόμεθα, καὶ πῶς ζησόμεθα“;

,,to de apolōlos ekzētei“, tout᾽ esti to hypo plēthous paraptōmatōn heautou apelpisan tēs sōtērias mē easę̄s teleōs apolesthai, to hypo pollēs psyxeōs kai nōchelias kathypnon genomenon kai dia bareos hypnou tēs heautou zōēs epilathomenon kai makran apostatēsan tēs idias poimnēs, hōs kai lykois peripesein eis boran, sy anazētei kai nouthetōn epistrephe kai nēphein parakalei kai elpida hypospeire, mē synchōrōn autǭ legein to hypo tinōn eirēmenon, hote ta asebēmata hēmōn eph᾽ hēmin, kai hēmeis en autois tēkometha, kai pōs zēsometha“?

“Seek the lost,” that is: the one who through the multitude of his transgressions has despaired of his own salvation, do not let him perish completely; the one who through great coldness and sluggishness has fallen asleep, and through heavy sleep has forgotten his own life and gone far from his own flock, so as to fall prey to wolves — you seek him out, and admonishing him bring him back; exhort him to be sober, and sow hope in him, not allowing him to say what some have said: “Our impieties are upon us, and we waste away in them; how then shall we live?”

Ezek 34:16 (allusion, high confidence) · Ezek 33:10 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The bishop must seek out the despairing and the negligent and give them hope.

Ezek 34:16; Ezek 33:10.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): τὸ δὲ ἀπολωλὸς ἐκζήτει → ,,τὸ δὲ ἀπολωλὸς ἐκζήτει; ἕαυτοῦ → ἑαυτοῦ; λύχοις → λύκοις; ig ἡμῖν → ἐφ᾽ ἡμῖν.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.20.5 (Funk 1:73–75; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-20-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.20.6Funk 1:75

εἰ οἷόν τε οὖν, ἰδιοποιείσθω ὃ ἐπίσκοπος τὸ πλημμέλημα, καὶ λεγέτω τῷ ἡμαρτηκότι, ὅτι σὺ μόνον ἐπίστρεψον, κἀγὼ τὸν ὑπὲρ σοῦ θάνατον ἀναδέξομαι, ὡς ὃ κύριος τὸν ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ καὶ πάντων. ,,Ὁ ποιμὴν γὰρ ὃ καλὸς τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ τίθησιν ὑπὲρ τῶν προβάτων, ὃ δὲ μισθωτὸς καὶ οὐκ ὢν ποιμήν, οὗ οὐκ ἔστι τὰ πρόβατα ἴδια, θεωρεῖ τὸν λύκον ἐρχόμενον“, τοῦτ ἔστιν τὸν διάβολον, ,,καὶ ἀφίησιν τὰ πρόβατα καὶ φεύγει, καὶ ὁ λύκος ἁρπάζει αὐτά“.

ei hoion te oun, idiopoieisthō ho episkopos to plēmmelēma, kai legetō tǭ hēmartēkoti, hoti sy monon epistrepson, kagō ton hyper sou thanaton anadexomai, hōs ho kyrios ton hyper emou kai pantōn. ,,Ho poimēn gar ho kalos tēn psychēn autou tithēsin hyper tōn probatōn, ho de misthōtos kai ouk ōn poimēn, hou ouk esti ta probata idia, theōrei ton lykon erchomenon“, tout estin ton diabolon, ,,kai aphiēsin ta probata kai pheugei, kai ho lykos harpazei auta“.

If possible, then, let the bishop take the transgression upon himself and say to the sinner: Only turn back, and I will take upon myself death for you, as the Lord did for me and for all. For “the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep; but the hireling, who is not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming,” that is, the devil, “and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them.”

John 10:11–12 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Like the good shepherd, the bishop should be ready to bear the sinner’s guilt and even die for him.

John 10:11–12.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ἡμαρτηκχότι → ἡμαρτηκότι; ,Ὁ ποιμὴν → ,,Ὁ ποιμὴν; οὐκ ὧν ποιμήν → οὐκ ὢν ποιμήν; ,xci ἀφίησιν → ,,καὶ ἀφίησιν; λύχος ἁρπάξει → λύκος ἁρπάζει.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.20.6 (Funk 1:75; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-20-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.20.7Funk 1:75

εἰδέναι οὖν προσήκει, ὅτι τοῖς ἡμαρτηκόσιν εὔσπλαγχνος ὢν ὃ θεὸς μετὰ ὅρκου μετάνοιαν ἐπηγγείλατο: ὃ δὲ ἁμαρτήσας καὶ τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν περὶ μετανοίας ἀγνοῶν καὶ τὸ μακρόθυμον καὶ ἀνεξίκακον αὐτοῦ μὴ ἐπιστάμενος, ἔτι μὴν καὶ τὰς ἁγίας γραφὰς τὰς ταύτην κηρυσσούσας οὐ γινώσκων, ἅτε μὴ μεμαθηκὼς παρὰ σοῦ, ὑπὸ ἀνοίας ἀπόλλυται.

eidenai oun prosēkei, hoti tois hēmartēkosin eusplanchnos ōn ho theos meta horkou metanoian epēngeilato: ho de hamartēsas kai tēn epangelian tou theou tēn peri metanoias agnoōn kai to makrothymon kai anexikakon autou mē epistamenos, eti mēn kai tas hagias graphas tas tautēn kēryssousas ou ginōskōn, hate mē memathēkōs para sou, hypo anoias apollytai.

It is fitting to know, then, that God, being compassionate toward those who have sinned, promised repentance with an oath. But the one who has sinned, being ignorant of God’s promise about repentance and not understanding his long-suffering and forbearance, and moreover not knowing the holy Scriptures that proclaim it, since he has not learned them from you, perishes through his folly.

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Summary: Sinners perish when the bishop has not taught them God’s promise of repentance.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): προσήχει → προσήκει; ἡμαρτηχόσιν εὔσπλαγχνος ὧν → ἡμαρτηκόσιν εὔσπλαγχνος ὢν; χηρυσσούσας → κηρυσσούσας.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.20.7 (Funk 1:75; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-20-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.20.8Funk 1:75

σὺ δὲ ὡς φιλόστοργος ποιμὴν καὶ ὡς σπουδαῖος νομεὺς ἀναζήτει ἀριθμῶν τὴν ποίμνην, τὸ λεῖπον ἐκζήτει, ὡς κύριος ὃ θεὸς ὃ ἀγαθὸς πατὴρ ἡμῶν, ἀποστείλας τὸν ἑαυτοῦ υἱὸν ποιμένα καλὸν καὶ σωτῆρα τὸν διδάσκαλον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν, ἐπιτρέψας αὐτῷ ,,ἐάσαι τὰ ἐνενήκοντα ἐννέα ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη, καὶ πορευθῆναι ἐπὶ τὴν ζήτησιν τοῦ πεπλανημένου, καὶ εὑρόντα ἄραι ἐπὶ τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ ὥμους καὶ φέρειν ἐπὶ τὴν ποίμνην, χαίροντα ἐπὶ τῇ εὑρέσει τοῦ ἀπολωλότος“.

sy de hōs philostorgos poimēn kai hōs spoudaios nomeus anazētei arithmōn tēn poimnēn, to leipon ekzētei, hōs kyrios ho theos ho agathos patēr hēmōn, aposteilas ton heautou huion poimena kalon kai sōtēra ton didaskalon hēmōn Iēsoun, epitrepsas autǭ ,,easai ta enenēkonta ennea epi ta orē, kai poreuthēnai epi tēn zētēsin tou peplanēmenou, kai heuronta arai epi tous heautou hōmous kai pherein epi tēn poimnēn, chaironta epi tę̄ heuresei tou apolōlotos“.

But you, as an affectionate shepherd and a diligent herdsman, search out and number your flock; seek out what is missing, as did the Lord God, our good Father, who sent his own Son as the good shepherd and saviour, our teacher Jesus, charging him “to leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that strayed, and when he found it, to lift it onto his own shoulders and carry it to the flock, rejoicing at finding the lost.”

Matt 18:12–13 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 15:4–6 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The bishop must seek the missing sheep as the Father sent the Son to seek the lost.

Matt 18:12–13; Luke 15:4–6.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ἐάσαι và ἐνενήχοντα → ἐάσαι τὰ ἐνενήκοντα.

Topics: Church office, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.20.8 (Funk 1:75; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-20-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.20.9Funk 1:75–77

οὕτως οὖν ὑπήκοος γίνου καὶ σύ, ὦ ἐπίσκοπε, ,,ἐκζητῶν τὸ ἀπολωλός, κατευθύνων τὸ πεπλανημένον, ἐπιστρέφων τὸ ἀφεστός“ ἐξουσίαν γὰρ ἔχεις ἐπιστρέφειν καὶ ἀποστέλλειν τεθραυσμένους ἐν ἀφέσει“. διὰ σοῦ ὃ σωτὴρ λέγει τῷ παρειμένῳ ἐν ἁμαρτίαις" ,,Ἀφέονταί σου αἱ ἁμαρτίαι, ἡ πίστις σου σέσωκέν σε, πορεύου εἰς εἰρήνην“. 10. εἰρήνη δὲ γαληνός ἐστιν ἡ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐκκλησία, εἰς ἣν λύων τοὺς ἡμαρτηκότας ἀποκαθίστα ὑγιεῖς καὶ ἀμώμους, εὐέλπιδας, σπουδαίους, ἐργοπόνους ἐν τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς ἔργοις, ὡς ἔμπειρος καὶ συμπαθὴς ἰατρὸς πάντας ἰώμενος τοὺς ἐν ἁμαρτίαις πεπληγμένους᾽ ,,Οὐ γὰρ χρείαν ἔχουσιν οἱ ἰσχύοντες ἰατροῦ, ἀλλ᾽ οἱ κακῶς ἔχοντες" ἦλθεν γὰρ ὃ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ζητῆσαι καὶ σῶσαι τὸ πεπλανημένον“. 11. ἰατρὸς οὖν ὢν τῆς ἐκκλησίας τοῦ κυρίου, πρόσαγε θεραπείαν κατάλληλον ἑκάστῳ τῶν νοσούντων, παντὶ τρόπῳ θεράπευε, ὑγίαζε, σώους ἀποκαθίστα τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ. ποίμαινε τὸ ποίμνιον μὴ ,,ἐν κράτει μετὰ ἐμπαιγμοῦ“ ὡς κατεξουσιάζων, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ποιμὴν χρηστὸς τῷ κόλπῳ συνάγων τὰ ἀρνία καὶ τὰς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσας παρακαλῶν“.

houtōs oun hypēkoos ginou kai sy, ō episkope, ,,ekzētōn to apolōlos, kateuthynōn to peplanēmenon, epistrephōn to aphestos“ exousian gar echeis epistrephein kai apostellein tethrausmenous en aphesei“. dia sou ho sōtēr legei tǭ pareimenǭ en hamartiais" ,,Apheontai sou hai hamartiai, hē pistis sou sesōken se, poreuou eis eirēnēn“. 10. eirēnē de galēnos estin hē tou Christou ekklēsia, eis hēn lyōn tous hēmartēkotas apokathista hygieis kai amōmous, euelpidas, spoudaious, ergoponous en tois agathois ergois, hōs empeiros kai sympathēs iatros pantas iōmenos tous en hamartiais peplēgmenous᾽ ,,Ou gar chreian echousin hoi ischyontes iatrou, all᾽ hoi kakōs echontes" ēlthen gar ho huios tou anthrōpou zētēsai kai sōsai to peplanēmenon“. 11. iatros oun ōn tēs ekklēsias tou kyriou, prosage therapeian katallēlon hekastǭ tōn nosountōn, panti tropǭ therapeue, hygiaze, sōous apokathista tę̄ ekklēsią. poimaine to poimnion mē ,,en kratei meta empaigmou“ hōs katexousiazōn, all᾽ hōs poimēn chrēstos tǭ kolpǭ synagōn ta arnia kai tas en gastri echousas parakalōn“.

So you too, O bishop, be obedient, “seeking the lost, guiding the straying, bringing back the one who has gone away”; for you have authority “to bring back and to send away the crushed in release.” Through you the Saviour says to the one paralysed by sins: “Your sins are forgiven; your faith has saved you; go in peace.” [10] And that peace, the calm haven, is the church of Christ, into which, loosing those who have sinned, restore them sound and blameless, hopeful, zealous, labouring at good works, as a skilled and sympathetic physician healing all who have been wounded by sins. For “those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill”; for “the Son of man came to seek and to save what had strayed.” [11] Being, then, the physician of the Lord’s church, apply the treatment that suits each of the sick; in every way cure them, heal them, restore them safe and sound to the church. Shepherd the flock not “with force and with mockery,” as one lording it over them, but as a kind shepherd, “gathering the lambs in his bosom and comforting those that are with young.”

Ezek 34:16 (allusion, high confidence) · Isa 58:6 (quotation, medium confidence) · Luke 5:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 7:50 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 9:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 19:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Ezek 34:4 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Pet 5:3 (allusion, medium confidence) · Isa 40:11 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The bishop has authority to forgive and restore sinners to the church, and must heal them as a physician and shepherd them gently.

Funk’s sections 10–11 sit inside this staged ref (numerals misread); marked [10]–[11]. The phrase “that peace, the calm haven” follows a garbled line of the digital text and is uncertain. Ezek 34:16; Isa 58:6 (cf. Luke 4:18); Luke 5:20; 7:50; Matt 9:12; Luke 19:10; Ezek 34:4; 1 Pet 5:3; Isa 40:11.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; section numeral misread; section numeral misread; OCR slip): , ἐκζητῶν → ,,ἐκζητῶν; Gov σέσωχέν → σου σέσωκέν; εἰρήνην“. το. εἰρήνη → εἰρήνην“. 10. εἰρήνη; ἧἦμαρτηχκότας → ἡμαρτηκότας; ,,ο“ γὰρ »χρείαν → ,,Οὐ γὰρ χρείαν; πεπλανημένον“. τι. ἰατρὸς οὖν ὧν → πεπλανημένον“. 11. ἰατρὸς οὖν ὢν; σούους → σώους; ,,.ν κράτει → ,,ἐν κράτει; οἷς ποιμὴν → ὡς ποιμὴν; τὰς iv γαστρὶ → τὰς ἐν γαστρὶ.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.20.9 (Funk 1:75–77; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-20-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 2, chapter 21

2.21.1Funk 1:77

Ἔσο δὲ χρηστός, ἀγαθός, ἤπιος, ἄδολος, ἀψευδής, μὴ σκληρός, μὴ αὐθάδης, μὴ ἀπότομος, μὴ ἀλαζών, μὴ ἀνηλεής, μὴ τετυφωμένος, μὴ ἀνθρωπάρεσκος, μὴ δειλός, μὴ δίγνωμος, μὴ ἐμπαίζων τοῖς ὑπὸ σὲ λαοῖς, μὴ ἀποκρύπτων ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ νόμιμα καὶ τοὺς περὶ μετανοίας λόγους, μὴ πρόχειρος πρὸς τὸ ἐξῶσαι καὶ ἐκβαλεῖν, ἀλλὰ ἀσφαλής, μὴ φιλεπιτιμητής, μὴ προπετής, μὴ παραδεχόμενος κατά τινος μαρτυρίαν ἄνευ τριῶν μαρτύρων, καὶ τούτων ἂν ὁ τρόπος ᾖ μεμαρτυρημένος πάλαι, καὶ εἰ μὴ ἀπὸ ἔχθρας κινούμενοι ἢ φθόνου.

Eso de chrēstos, agathos, ēpios, adolos, apseudēs, mē sklēros, mē authadēs, mē apotomos, mē alazōn, mē anēleēs, mē tetyphōmenos, mē anthrōpareskos, mē deilos, mē dignōmos, mē empaizōn tois hypo se laois, mē apokryptōn ap᾽ autōn ta tou theou nomima kai tous peri metanoias logous, mē procheiros pros to exōsai kai ekbalein, alla asphalēs, mē philepitimētēs, mē propetēs, mē paradechomenos kata tinos martyrian aneu triōn martyrōn, kai toutōn an ho tropos ę̄ memartyrēmenos palai, kai ei mē apo echthras kinoumenoi ē phthonou.

Be kind, good, gentle, without guile, truthful; not harsh, not self-willed, not severe, not boastful, not merciless, not puffed up, not a man-pleaser, not cowardly, not double-minded; not mocking the people under you, not hiding from them God’s ordinances and the words about repentance; not quick to expel and cast out, but steady; not fond of rebuking, not rash; not accepting testimony against anyone without three witnesses, and those whose character has long been attested, and provided they are not moved by enmity or envy.

Deut 19:15 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Tim 5:19 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: The bishop must be gentle and steady and accept accusations only on the word of three reliable witnesses.

Deut 19:15; 1 Tim 5:19.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): σχληρός → σκληρός; ἀποχρύπτων ἀπ αὐτῶν → ἀποκρύπτων ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν; ὃ τρόπος j μεμαρτυρημένος → ὁ τρόπος ᾖ μεμαρτυρημένος.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.21.1 (Funk 1:77; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-21-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.21.2Funk 1:77–79

εἰσὶ γὰρ πολλοὶ ἐπιχαιρεσίκακοι, πρόγλωσσοι, ,,τριττὴν γλῶσσαν“ ἔχοντες, μισάδελφοι, ἔργον τιθέμενοι σκορπίζειν τὰ Χριστοῦ πρόβατα, ὧν εἰ παραδέχεσθαι θέλεις τοὺς λόγους ἀκρίτως, διασπερεῖς σου τὸ ποίμνιον καὶ παραδώσεις λύκοις εἰς κατάβρωμα, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστι δαίμοσιν καὶ πονηροῖς ἀνθρώποις, μᾶλλον δὲ οὐκ ἀνθρώποις, ἀλλὰ θηρίοις ἀνθρωποειδέσιν, ἐθνικοῖς καὶ Ἰουδαϊσταῖς καὶ αἱρεσιώταις ἀθέοις.

eisi gar polloi epichairesikakoi, proglōssoi, ,,trittēn glōssan“ echontes, misadelphoi, ergon tithemenoi skorpizein ta Christou probata, hōn ei paradechesthai theleis tous logous akritōs, diaspereis sou to poimnion kai paradōseis lykois eis katabrōma, tout᾽ esti daimosin kai ponērois anthrōpois, mallon de ouk anthrōpois, alla thēriois anthrōpoeidesin, ethnikois kai Ioudaïstais kai hairesiōtais atheois.

For there are many who rejoice in evil, ready-tongued, having “a threefold tongue,” haters of their brothers, who make it their business to scatter Christ’s sheep. If you are willing to accept their words without discernment, you will scatter your flock and hand it over to wolves for food, that is, to demons and wicked men — or rather not men, but beasts in human form: Gentiles, Judaizers and godless heretics.

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Summary: Malicious accusers scatter the flock and must not be believed without discernment.

“Threefold tongue”: cf. Sir 28:14 (“a third tongue”), the slanderer’s tongue. The polemic against Gentiles, Judaizers and heretics is the author’s.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ,«τριττὴν → ,,τριττὴν; t^ ποίμνιον → τὸ ποίμνιον; λύχοις → λύκοις; ἀνθρωποειδέσι», ἐθνικοῖς xai → ἀνθρωποειδέσιν, ἐθνικοῖς καὶ; αἱρεσιόταις → αἱρεσιώταις.

Extrabiblical texts: Sir 28:14 (Sirach [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; allusion)

Topics: Church office, Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.21.2 (Funk 1:77–79; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-21-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.21.3Funk 1:79

τῷ γὰρ ἐκβληθέντι τῆς ἐκκλησίας εὐθὺς προσπελάζουσιν οἱ λυμεῶνες ὡς λύκοι καὶ ὡς ἄρνα βορὰν ἡγοῦνται, κέρδος ἴδιον ἡγούμενοι τὴν ἐκείνου ἀπώλειαν" καὶ γὰρ ὁ τούτων πατὴρ διάβολος ἀνθρωποκτόνος ἐστίν καὶ ὃ διὰ τῆς σῆς ἀκρισίας ἀδίκως ἀφορισθεὶς καὶ ἀθυμίᾳ συσχεθεὶς καὶ ὀλιγοψυχήσας ἢ εἰς ἔθνη ἀποπλανηθήσεται ἢ εἰς αἱρέσεις συμποδισθήσεται, καὶ παντελῶς τῆς ἐκκλησίας καὶ τῆς εἰς θεὸν ἐλπίδος ἀπαλλοτριωθήσεται καὶ συμποδισθήσεται ὑπὸ ἀσεβείας, καὶ γενήσῃ σὺ τῆς ἐκείνου ἀπωλείας ἔνοχος.

tǭ gar ekblēthenti tēs ekklēsias euthys prospelazousin hoi lymeōnes hōs lykoi kai hōs arna boran hēgountai, kerdos idion hēgoumenoi tēn ekeinou apōleian" kai gar ho toutōn patēr diabolos anthrōpoktonos estin kai ho dia tēs sēs akrisias adikōs aphoristheis kai athymią syschetheis kai oligopsychēsas ē eis ethnē apoplanēthēsetai ē eis haireseis sympodisthēsetai, kai pantelōs tēs ekklēsias kai tēs eis theon elpidos apallotriōthēsetai kai sympodisthēsetai hypo asebeias, kai genēsę̄ sy tēs ekeinou apōleias enochos.

For the destroyers at once draw near like wolves to one who has been cast out of the church, and regard him as a lamb for food, counting his ruin their own gain; for their father, the devil, is a murderer. And one who has been unjustly excluded through your lack of discernment, seized by despondency and losing heart, will either wander off to the Gentiles or be entangled in heresies, and will be wholly estranged from the church and from hope in God, entangled by ungodliness; and you will be guilty of his ruin.

John 8:44 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Those wrongly excommunicated fall prey to pagans and heretics, and the bishop is guilty of their ruin.

John 8:44.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ἀνθρωποχτόνος → ἀνθρωποκτόνος.

Topics: Church office, Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.21.3 (Funk 1:79; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-21-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.21.4Funk 1:79

οὐ γὰρ δίκαιόν ἐστιν, ἕτοιμον μὲν εἶναι ἐκβάλλειν τὸν ἡμαρτηκότα, ὀκνηρὸν δὲ ὑπάρχειν εἰς τὸ προσδέχεσθαι τὸν ἐπιστρέφοντα, καὶ πρόχειρον μὲν εἰς τὸ ἀποκόπτειν, ἀνηλεῆ δὲ εἰς τὸ τὸν ἀλγοῦντα ἰᾶσθαι᾽ περὶ γὰρ τῶν τοιούτων λέγει ἡ θεία γραφή" ,,Οἱ πόδες αὐτῶν εἰς κακίαν τρέχουσιν, ταχινοί εἶσιν τοῦ ἐκχέειν αἷμα σύντριμμα καὶ ταλαιπωρία ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτῶν, καὶ ὁδὸν εἰρήνης οὐκ ἔγνωσαν" οὐκ ἔστιν φόβος θεοῦ ἀπέναντι τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτῶν“.

ou gar dikaion estin, hetoimon men einai ekballein ton hēmartēkota, oknēron de hyparchein eis to prosdechesthai ton epistrephonta, kai procheiron men eis to apokoptein, anēleē de eis to ton algounta iasthai᾽ peri gar tōn toioutōn legei hē theia graphē" ,,Hoi podes autōn eis kakian trechousin, tachinoi eisin tou ekcheein haima syntrimma kai talaipōria en tais hodois autōn, kai hodon eirēnēs ouk egnōsan" ouk estin phobos theou apenanti tōn ophthalmōn autōn“.

For it is not just to be ready to cast out the one who has sinned but slow to receive the one who returns, quick to cut off but merciless in healing the one who suffers. For of such people the divine Scripture says: “Their feet run to evil, they are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace they have not known; there is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Rom 3:15–18 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 59:7–8 (quotation, medium confidence) · Ps 36:1 (35:2 LXX) (quotation, medium confidence)

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Summary: It is unjust to be quick to expel and slow to receive the penitent.

Rom 3:15–18 (from Isa 59:7–8; Ps 36:1).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): πρόχειρον μὲν sig τὸ → πρόχειρον μὲν εἰς τὸ; ἣ Sela γραφή → ἡ θεία γραφή.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.21.4 (Funk 1:79; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-21-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.21.5Funk 1:79

ὁδὸς δὲ εἰρήνης ἐστὶν ὁ σωτὴρ ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς ὃ Χριστός, ὃς καὶ ἐδίδαξεν ἡμᾶς λέγων" ,,Ἄφετε, καὶ ἀφεθήσεται ὑμῖν δίδοτε, καὶ δοθήσεται ὑμῖν“, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστιν δίδοτε ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν, καὶ ἀφεθήσεται ὑμῖν τὰ παραπτώματα, ὡς καὶ διὰ τῆς εὐχῆς ἡμᾶς ἐπαίδευσεν λέγειν πρὸς τὸν θεόν" ,,Ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν, ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀφίεμεν τοῖς ὀφειλέταις ἡμῶν“.

hodos de eirēnēs estin ho sōtēr hēmōn Iēsous ho Christos, hos kai edidaxen hēmas legōn" ,,Aphete, kai aphethēsetai hymin didote, kai dothēsetai hymin“, tout᾽ estin didote aphesin hamartiōn, kai aphethēsetai hymin ta paraptōmata, hōs kai dia tēs euchēs hēmas epaideusen legein pros ton theon" ,,Aphes hēmin ta opheilēmata hēmōn, hōs kai hēmeis aphiemen tois opheiletais hēmōn“.

The way of peace is our Saviour Jesus the Christ, who also taught us, saying: “Forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you,” that is, give forgiveness of sins, and your transgressions will be forgiven you; as he also taught us through the prayer to say to God: “Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.”

Luke 6:37–38 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 6:12 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ, the way of peace, taught that those who forgive will be forgiven.

Luke 6:37–38; Matt 6:12.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ,,( Ἄφετε → ,,Ἄφετε; ,,({φες → ,,Ἄφες; ἡμεῖς. ἀφίεμεν → ἡμεῖς ἀφίεμεν.

Topics: Prayer, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.21.5 (Funk 1:79; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-21-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.21.6Funk 1:79

ἐὰν οὖν μὴ ἀφῆτε τοῖς ἡμαρτηκόσιν, πῶς ὑμεῖς λήψεσθε τὴν ἄφεσιν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ὑμῶν; οὐχὶ τοὐναντίον ἑαυτὸν δεσμεύεις, λέγων ἀφιέναι καὶ μὴ ἀφιῶν; τῷ ἑαυτῶν στόματι ἐναντιωθήσεσθε, λέγοντες ἀφιέναι καὶ μὴ ἀφιέντες.

ean oun mē aphēte tois hēmartēkosin, pōs hymeis lēpsesthe tēn aphesin tōn hamartiōn hymōn? ouchi tounantion heauton desmeueis, legōn aphienai kai mē aphiōn? tǭ heautōn stomati enantiōthēsesthe, legontes aphienai kai mē aphientes.

If, then, you do not forgive those who have sinned, how will you receive forgiveness of your own sins? Do you not, on the contrary, bind yourself, saying that you forgive while not forgiving? You will be contradicted by your own mouths, saying that you forgive while not forgiving.

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Summary: Those who refuse to forgive condemn themselves by their own prayer.

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Topics: Prayer, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.21.6 (Funk 1:79; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-21-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.21.7Funk 1:79–81

γινώσκετε γάρ, ὅτι ὃ τὸν μὴ ἀδικήσαντα ἐκβάλλων ἢ τὸν ἐπιστρέφοντα μὴ προσδεχόμενος φονεύει τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ αἷμα ἐκχέει ὡς Κάϊν Ἄβελ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ βοῶν πρὸς θεὸν ἐκζητηθήσεται" ,,Δίκαιος“ γὰρ ἀδίκως φονευθεὶς ὑπὸ τινὸς παρὰ θεῷ ,,ἐν ἀναπαύσει ἔσται“ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, ὡσαύτως καὶ ὃ ματαίως ἀφορισθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου.

ginōskete gar, hoti ho ton mē adikēsanta ekballōn ē ton epistrephonta mē prosdechomenos phoneuei ton adelphon autou kai haima ekcheei hōs Kaïn Abel tou adelphou autou, kai to haima autou boōn pros theon ekzētēthēsetai" ,,Dikaios“ gar adikōs phoneutheis hypo tinos para theǭ ,,en anapausei estai“ eis ton aiōna, hōsautōs kai ho mataiōs aphoristheis hypo tou episkopou.

For know that he who casts out one who has done no wrong, or does not receive one who returns, murders his brother and sheds his blood, as Cain did the blood of Abel his brother; and his blood, crying to God, will be required. For “the righteous man” unjustly murdered by someone “will be at rest” with God forever; and likewise the one excluded without cause by the bishop.

Gen 4:10 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Expelling the innocent or refusing the penitent is like Cain’s murder of Abel.

Gen 4:10; Wis 4:7.

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Extrabiblical texts: Wis 4:7 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.21.7 (Funk 1:79–81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-21-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.21.8Funk 1:81

ὁ μέντοι ἐκβάλλων ὡς λοιμὸν τὸν ἀναίτιον, πικρότερος φονέως ὃ τοιοῦτος, οὐκ ἀφορῶν εἰς τὸ τοῦ θεοῦ ἔλεος, οὐδὲ μνημονεύων αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐπὶ τοῖς μετανοοῦσιν ἀγαθωσύνην, οὐδὲ λαμβάνων σκοποὺς τῶν τοιούτων τοὺς ἐκ πλήθους παραπτωμάτων ἐν μετανοίᾳ εἰληφότας ἄφεσιν.

ho mentoi ekballōn hōs loimon ton anaition, pikroteros phoneōs ho toioutos, ouk aphorōn eis to tou theou eleos, oude mnēmoneuōn autou tēn epi tois metanoousin agathōsynēn, oude lambanōn skopous tōn toioutōn tous ek plēthous paraptōmatōn en metanoią eilēphotas aphesin.

He who casts out the innocent as a pestilent man is crueller than a murderer; he does not look to the mercy of God, nor remember his goodness toward the penitent, nor take as examples those who after many transgressions received forgiveness through repentance.

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Summary: Casting out the innocent ignores God’s mercy to the penitent.

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Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.21.8 (Funk 1:81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-21-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.21.9Funk 1:81

διὰ τοῦτο ἰταμώτερος σωματικοῦ φονέως ὁ τὸν ἀναίτιον ἀπορρίπτων. ὡσαύτως καὶ ὁ μὴ προσδεχόμενος τοὺς μετανοοῦντας σκορπίζει τὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, κατ᾽ αὐτοῦ γινόμενος" ὡς γὰρ δίκαιός ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς ἐν τῷ κρίνειν τοὺς ἁμαρτωλούς, οὕτως ἐλεήμων ἐν τῷ προσδέχεσθαι τοὺς ἐπιστρέφοντας" ,,ἔλεος“ γὰρ ,,καὶ κρίσιν ᾄδει“ αὐτῷ ὁ θεοφιλὴς Δαυίδ.

dia touto itamōteros sōmatikou phoneōs ho ton anaition aporriptōn. hōsautōs kai ho mē prosdechomenos tous metanoountas skorpizei ta tou Christou, kat᾽ autou ginomenos" hōs gar dikaios estin ho theos en tǭ krinein tous hamartōlous, houtōs eleēmōn en tǭ prosdechesthai tous epistrephontas" ,,eleos“ gar ,,kai krisin ądei“ autǭ ho theophilēs Dauid.

Therefore he who throws out the innocent is more reckless than a murderer of the body. Likewise he who does not receive the penitent scatters what is Christ’s, setting himself against him. For as God is just in judging sinners, so he is merciful in receiving those who return; for the God-loving David sings to him of “mercy and judgment.”

Matt 12:30 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 101:1 (100:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: God is both just and merciful, and the bishop must be so too.

Matt 12:30; Ps 101:1 (LXX 100:1).

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Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.21.9 (Funk 1:81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-21-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 2, chapter 22

2.22.0Funk 1:81–83

Χρὴ δέ σε, ὦ ἐπίσκοπε, πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν ἔχειν καὶ τὰ προωδευκότα καὶ ἐμπείρως αὐτοῖς κεχρῆσθαι πρὸς νουθεσίαν τῶν στυπτικῶν ἢ παρακλητικῶν δεομένων λόγων" ἔτι καὶ ἐν τῷ κρίνειν σε δίκαιον τῷ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐξακολουθεῖν θελήματι, καὶ ἡ θεὸς δικάζει τοὺς ἁμαρτάνοντας καὶ ἐπιστρέφοντας, παραπλησίως καὶ σὲ κρίνειν. 2. ἢ γὰρ οὐχὶ καὶ τὸν Δαυὶδ ὀλισθήσαντα ὀνειδίσας διὰ τοῦ Νάθαν καὶ εἰπόντα μετανοεῖν εὐθὺς καὶ τοῦ θανάτου λυτροῦται λέγων" ,, Θάρσει, οὐ μὴ ἀποθάνῃς“; Ἰωνᾶν μὴ θελήσαντα Νινευίταις κηρῦξαι ὑπὸ θαλάσσης καὶ κήτους καταποθῆναι ποιήσας, εὐξαμένου ἐν κοιλίᾳ, ἀνήγαγεν ἐκ φθορᾶς τὴν ζωὴν αὐτοῦ; Ἐζεκίαν πρὸς ὀλίγον τυφωθέντα, εὐξάμενον μετὰ δακρύων, ἀφῆκεν τοῦ ἐγκλήματος; 3. ἀκούσατε δή, ὦ ἐπίσκοποι, πρὸς τὰ τοιαῦτα ὠφέλιμον ὑπόδειγμα᾽ γέγραπται γὰρ ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ τῶν Βασιλειῶν καὶ ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ τῶν Παραλειπομένων τῇ τῶν ἡμερῶν οὕτως. 4. ,,Υἱὸς Μανασσῆς ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτὸν δωδεκαετής, καὶ πεντήκοντα πέντε "ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν “Ἱερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ Ἐψιβά. 5. καὶ ἐποίησεν τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον κυρίου, οὐχ ἀπέσχετο ἀπὸ τῶν βδελυγμάτων τῶν ἐθνῶν ὧν ἐξωλόθρευσεν κύριος ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ᾽ καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν Μανασσῆς καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν τὰ ὑψηλά, ἃ κατέσπασεν ᾿Εζεκίας ὃ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔστησεν στήλας τῇ Βάαλ καὶ ἀνέστησεν θυσιαστήριον τῇ Βάαλ, καὶ ἐποίησεν ἄλση, καθὼς ἐποίησεν Ἀχαὰβ βασιλεὺς Ἰσραήλ᾽ καὶ ἐποίησεν θυσιαστήρια πάσῃ τῇ στρατιᾷ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν θυσιαστήριον ἐν οἴκῳ κυρίου, ἐν ᾧ εἶπεν κύριος πρὸς Δαυὶδ καὶ πρὸς Σολομῶνα τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ λέγων, ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ θήσω τὸ ὄνομά μου. 6. καὶ ἔστησεν Μανασσῆς θυσιαστήρια, καὶ ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐδούλευσεν τῇ Βάαλ, καὶ εἶπεν" ἔσται τὸ ὄνομά μου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε θυσιαστήρια ἐν ταῖς δυσὶν αὐλαῖς οἴκου κυρίου τῇ στρατιᾷ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ" καὶ αὐτὸς διῆγεν τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ ἐν πυρὶ ἐν Γὲ Βενεννόμ, καὶ ἐκληδονίζετο καὶ ἐφαρμακεύετο καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐγγαστριμύθους καὶ ἐπαοιδοὺς καὶ γνώστας καὶ θεραφείν, καὶ ἐπλήθυνεν τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς κυρίου τοῦ παροργίσαι αὐτόν. 7. καὶ ἔθηκεν τὸν χωνευτὸν καὶ τὸν γλυπτὸν τοῦ ἄλσους, τὴν εἰκόνα ἣν ἐποίησεν, ἐν οἴκῳ κυρίου, ἐν ᾧ ἐξελέξατο κύριος θέσθαι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ ἐν Ιερουσαλὴμ τῇ ἁγίᾳ πόλει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, καὶ εἶπεν᾽ οὐ προσθήσω τὸν πόδα μου σαλεῦσαι ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς τοῦ ᾿Ισραὴλ, ἢν ἔδωκα τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν, πλὴν ἐὰν φυλάξωνται κατὰ πάντα ὅσα ἐνετειλάμην αὐτοῖς, κατὰ πᾶσαν ἐντολήν, ἣν ἐνετείλατο ὃ δοῦλός μου Μωῦσῆς. καὶ οὐκ ἤκουσαν, καὶ ἐπλάνησεν αὐτοὺς Μανασσῆς τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον κυρίου ὑπὲρ τὰ ἔθνη, ἃ ἐξῆρεν κύριος ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ. 8. καὶ ἐλάλησεν κύριος ἐπὶ Μανασσῆν καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ ἐν χειρὶ δούλων αὐτοῦ τῶν προφητῶν λέγων" ἀνθ᾽ ὧν ὅσα ἐποίησεν Μανασσῆς ὃ βασιλεὺς Ἰούδα τὰ βδελύγματα τὰ πονηρὰ ταῦτα ἀπὸ πάντων ὧν ἐποίησεν ὁ Ἀμορραῖος ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξήμαρτεν τὸν Ἰούδαν ἐν τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτοῦ, τάδε λέγει κύριος ὃ θεὸς Ἰσραήλ᾽ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ φέρω

Chrē de se, ō episkope, pro ophthalmōn echein kai ta proōdeukota kai empeirōs autois kechrēsthai pros nouthesian tōn styptikōn ē paraklētikōn deomenōn logōn" eti kai en tǭ krinein se dikaion tǭ tou theou exakolouthein thelēmati, kai hē theos dikazei tous hamartanontas kai epistrephontas, paraplēsiōs kai se krinein. 2. ē gar ouchi kai ton Dauid olisthēsanta oneidisas dia tou Nathan kai eiponta metanoein euthys kai tou thanatou lytroutai legōn" ,, Tharsei, ou mē apothanę̄s“? Iōnan mē thelēsanta Nineuitais kēryxai hypo thalassēs kai kētous katapothēnai poiēsas, euxamenou en koilią, anēgagen ek phthoras tēn zōēn autou? Ezekian pros oligon typhōthenta, euxamenon meta dakryōn, aphēken tou enklēmatos? 3. akousate dē, ō episkopoi, pros ta toiauta ōphelimon hypodeigma᾽ gegraptai gar en tę̄ tetartę̄ tōn Basileiōn kai en tę̄ deuterą tōn Paraleipomenōn tę̄ tōn hēmerōn houtōs. 4. ,,Huios Manassēs en tǭ basileuein auton dōdekaetēs, kai pentēkonta pente "etē ebasileusen en “Hierousalēm, kai onoma tę̄ mētri autou Epsiba. 5. kai epoiēsen to ponēron enōpion kyriou, ouch apescheto apo tōn bdelygmatōn tōn ethnōn hōn exōlothreusen kyrios apo prosōpou tōn huiōn Israēl᾽ kai epestrepsen Manassēs kai ǭkodomēsen ta hypsēla, ha katespasen ᾿Ezekias ho patēr autou, kai estēsen stēlas tę̄ Baal kai anestēsen thysiastērion tę̄ Baal, kai epoiēsen alsē, kathōs epoiēsen Achaab basileus Israēl᾽ kai epoiēsen thysiastēria pasę̄ tę̄ stratią tou ouranou, kai ǭkodomēsen thysiastērion en oikǭ kyriou, en hǭ eipen kyrios pros Dauid kai pros Solomōna ton huion autou legōn, hoti en autǭ thēsō to onoma mou. 6. kai estēsen Manassēs thysiastēria, kai en autois edouleusen tę̄ Baal, kai eipen" estai to onoma mou eis ton aiōna, kai ǭkodomēse thysiastēria en tais dysin aulais oikou kyriou tę̄ stratią tou ouranou" kai autos diēgen ta tekna autou en pyri en Ge Benennom, kai eklēdonizeto kai epharmakeueto kai epoiēsen engastrimythous kai epaoidous kai gnōstas kai theraphein, kai eplēthynen tou poiēsai to ponēron en ophthalmois kyriou tou parorgisai auton. 7. kai ethēken ton chōneuton kai ton glypton tou alsous, tēn eikona hēn epoiēsen, en oikǭ kyriou, en hǭ exelexato kyrios thesthai to onoma autou ekei en Ierousalēm tę̄ hagią polei eis ton aiōna, kai eipen᾽ ou prosthēsō ton poda mou saleusai apo tēs gēs tou ᾿Israēl, ēn edōka tois patrasin autōn, plēn ean phylaxōntai kata panta hosa eneteilamēn autois, kata pasan entolēn, hēn eneteilato ho doulos mou Mōysēs. kai ouk ēkousan, kai eplanēsen autous Manassēs tou poiēsai to ponēron enōpion kyriou hyper ta ethnē, ha exēren kyrios apo prosōpou tōn huiōn Israēl. 8. kai elalēsen kyrios epi Manassēn kai epi ton laon autou en cheiri doulōn autou tōn prophētōn legōn" anth᾽ hōn hosa epoiēsen Manassēs ho basileus Iouda ta bdelygmata ta ponēra tauta apo pantōn hōn epoiēsen ho Amorraios emprosthen autou, kai exēmarten ton Ioudan en tois eidōlois autou, tade legei kyrios ho theos Israēl᾽ idou egō pherō

You must, O bishop, also keep before your eyes what has happened before, and use it skilfully for the admonition of those who need severe or consoling words; and further, in judging it is right for you to follow the will of God, and to judge as God judges those who sin and those who return. [2] For did he not reproach David through Nathan when he slipped, and when he said he repented, at once redeem him from death, saying, “Take courage, you shall not die”? Did he not cause Jonah, who would not preach to the Ninevites, to be swallowed by the sea and the whale, and when he prayed in the belly, bring up his life from corruption? Did he not release Hezekiah from the charge, when he had been puffed up for a little while and prayed with tears? [3] Hear, then, O bishops, an example useful for such cases; for it is written in the fourth book of Kingdoms and in the second of Chronicles, thus: [4] “Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Hephzibah. [5] And he did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not keep from the abominations of the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel. And Manasseh turned and built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had pulled down, and set up pillars to Baal and raised an altar to Baal, and made groves, as Ahab king of Israel had done. And he made altars for all the host of heaven, and built an altar in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In it I will put my name. [6] And Manasseh set up altars and served Baal on them, and said, My name shall be forever; and he built altars for the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. And he made his children pass through fire in Ge-Benennom, and practised divination and sorcery, and appointed mediums and enchanters and diviners and teraphim, and did much evil in the eyes of the Lord to provoke him to anger. [7] And he set the molten and graven image of the grove, the image which he had made, in the house of the Lord, where the Lord had chosen to set his name, in Jerusalem the holy city, forever; and he had said, I will no more cause my foot to be moved from the land of Israel which I gave to their fathers, provided that they keep all that I commanded them, according to every commandment that my servant Moses commanded. And they did not listen; and Manasseh led them astray to do evil in the sight of the Lord more than the nations whom the Lord removed from before the sons of Israel. [8] And the Lord spoke concerning Manasseh and concerning his people by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying: Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorite did who was before him, and has made Judah sin with his idols, thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I bring

2 Sam 12:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Jonah 2:1–10 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Chr 32:25–26 (allusion, medium confidence) · 2 Kgs 21:1–11 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Chr 33:1–9 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The bishop should judge as God does with sinners and penitents, as David, Jonah and Hezekiah show; the story of Manasseh’s sins begins.

This staged ref holds Funk’s chapter 22, sections 1–8 (numerals lost or misread); marked [2]–[8]; the sentence continues in 2.22.1. 2 Sam 12:13; Jonah 2; 2 Chr 32:25–26 (Isa 38); then 2 Kgs 21:1–11 with 2 Chr 33:1–9. A fragment of Funk’s apparatus at the end of the ref is removed.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; apparatus removed; section numeral misread; OCR slip): ὁ ἐπίσκοπε → ὦ ἐπίσκοπε; στυπτικχῶν → στυπτικῶν; χρίνειν → κρίνειν; ἐξακολουθεῖ»ν → ἐξακολουθεῖν; ἀνήγαγεν ix φθορᾶς → ἀνήγαγεν ἐκ φθορᾶς; δαχρύων → δακρύων; o ἐπίσκοποι → ὦ ἐπίσκοποι; οὐφέλιμον → ὠφέλιμον; ,, ἰὸς Μανασσῆς → ,,Υἱὸς Μανασσῆς; δωδεχαετής → δωδεκαετής; ς. xoi ἐποίησεν → 5. καὶ ἐποίησεν; φκχκοδόμησεν và ὑφηλά → ᾠκοδόμησεν τὰ ὑψηλά; καθὸς → καθὼς; καὶ φκοδόμησεν θυσιαστήριον ἐν οἴχῳ → καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν θυσιαστήριον ἐν οἴκῳ; Qxoδόμησε → ᾠκοδόμησε; πυρὶ iv Γὲ → πυρὶ ἐν Γὲ; ἐκληδονίζετο xoi → ἐκληδονίζετο καὶ; εἰκόνα ἣν ἐποίησεν, ἐν οἴχῳ → εἰκόνα ἣν ἐποίησεν, ἐν οἴκῳ; π΄λει → πόλει; ᾿ΙσραήλΔ. → Ἰσραήλ.; Maνασσῆν → Μανασσῆν; φέρω διήγαγεν a v | 14/15 Γὲ Βενεννόμ → φέρω.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.22.0 (Funk 1:81–83; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-22-0). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.22.1Funk 1:83–87

κακὰ ἐπὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ Ἰούδαν, ὥστε παντὸς ἀκούοντος αὐτὰ ἠχήσει ἀμφότερα τὰ ὦτα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐκτενῶ ἐπὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ τὸ μέτρον Σαμαρείας καὶ τὸν σταθμὸν οἴκου Ἀχαάβ, καὶ ἀπαλείψω τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ, καθὼς ἀπαλείφεται τὸ πυξίον ἀπαλειφόμενον, καὶ καταστρέψω ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀποδώσομαι τὸ ὑπόλειμμα τῆς κληρονομίας μου, καὶ παραδώσω αὐτοὺς εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθρῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔσονται εἰς διαρπαγὴν καὶ προνομὴν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐχθροῖς αὐτῶν" ἀνθ᾽ ὧν ὅσα ἐποίησαν πονηρὰ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς μου, καὶ ἦσαν παροργίζοντές με ἀφ᾽ ἧς ἡμέρας ἐξήγαγον τοὺς πατέρας αὐτῶν ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου καὶ ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης. 9. καί γε αἷμα ἀθῶον ἐξέχεεν Μανασσῆς πολὺ σφόδρα, ἕως οὗ ἔπλησεν τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ στόμα ἐπὶ στόματι, πλὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτοῦ ὧν ἐξήμαρτεν τὸν Ἰούδαν ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς κυρίου. 10. καὶ ἤγαγεν κύριος ἐπὶ αὐτὸν τοὺς ἄρχοντας τῆς δυνάμεως τοῦ βασιλέως Ἀσσούρ, καὶ κατελάβοντο τὸν Μανασσῆν ἐν δεσμοῖς καὶ ἔδησαν αὐτὸν ἐν πέδαις χαλκαῖς καὶ ἤγαγον αὐτὸν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα" καὶ ἦν δεδεμένος καὶ κατασεσιδηρωμένος ὅλος ἐν οἴκῳ φυλακῆς, καὶ ἐδίδοτο αὐτῷ ἐκ πιτύρων ἄρτος ἐν σταθμῷ βραχὺς καὶ ὕδωρ σὺν ὄξει ὀλίγον ἐν μέτρῳ, ὥστε ζῆν αὐτόν, καὶ ἦν συνεχόμενος καὶ ὀδυνώμενος σφόδρα. 11. καὶ ὡς βιαίως ἐθλίβη, ἐζήτησεν τὸ πρόσωπον κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐταπεινώθη σφόδρα ἀπὸ προσώπου κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ, καὶ προσηύξατο πρὸς κύριον τὸν θεὸν λέγων" 12. Κύριε παντοκράτορ, ὃ θεὸς τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακὼβ καὶ τοῦ σπέρματος αὐτῶν τοῦ δικαίου, ὁ ποιήσας τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν σὺν παντὶ τῷ κόσμῳ αὐτῶν, ὁ πεδήσας τὴν θάλασσαν τῷ λόγῳ τοῦ προστάγματός σου, ὁ κλείσας τὴν ἄβυσσον καὶ σφραγισάμενος αὐτὴν τῷ φοβερῷ καὶ ἐνδόξῳ ὀνόματί σου, ὃν πάντα φρίσσει καὶ τρέμει ἀπὸ προσώπου δυνάμεώς σου, ὅτι ἄστεκτος ἡ μεγαλοπρέπεια τῆς δόξης σου καὶ ἀνυπόστατος ἡ ὀργὴ τῆς ἐπὶ ἁμαρτωλοὺς ἀπειλῆς σου, ἀμέτρητόν τε καὶ ἀνεξιχνίαστον τὸ ἔλεος τῆς ἐπαγγελίας σου" ὅτι σὺ εἶ κύριος μακρόθυμος, εὔσπλαγχνος, πολυέλεος καὶ μετανοῶν ἐπὶ ταῖς κακίαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων᾽ ὅτι σύ, ὃ θεός, κατὰ τὴν χρηστότητα τῆς ἀγαθωσύνης σου ἐπηγγείλω μετανοίας ἄφεσιν τοῖς ἡμαρτηκόσιν, καὶ τῷ πλήθει τῶν οἰκτιρμῶν σου ὥρισας μετάνοιαν ἁμαρτωλοῖς εἰς σωτηρίαν. 13. σὺ οὖν, κύριε ὁ θεὸς τῶν δικαίων, οὐκ ἔθου μετάνοιαν δικαίοις, τῷ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακώβ, τοῖς οὐχ ἡμαρτηκόσιν σοι, ἀλλ᾽ ἔθου μετάνοιαν ἐπὶ ἐμοὶ τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ, διότι ἥμαρτον ὑπὲρ ἀριθμὸν ψάμμου θαλάσσης. ἐπλήθυναν αἱ ἀνομίαι μου, κύριε, ἐπλήθυναν αἱ ἀνομίαι μου, καὶ οὐκέτι εἰμὶ ἄξιος ἀτενίσαι καὶ ἰδεῖν τὸ ὕψος τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἀπὸ πλήθους τῶν ἀδικιῶν μου, κατακαμπτόμενος πολλῷ δεσμῷ σιδήρου, διότι παρώργισα τὸν θυμόν σου καὶ τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιόν σου ἐποίησα στήσας βδελύγματα καὶ πληθύνας προσοχθίσματα. 14. καὶ νῦν κλίνω γόνυ καρδίας μου, δεόμενος τῆς παρὰ σοῦ χρηστότητος. ἡμάρτηκα, κύριε, ἡμάρτηκα, καὶ τὰς ἀνομίας μου ἐγὼ γινώσκω· ἀλλ᾽ αἰτοῦμαι δεόμενός σου" ἄνες μοι, κύριε, ἄνες μοι, καὶ μὴ συναπολέσῃς μὲ ταῖς ἀνομίαις μου, μηδὲ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα μηνίσας τηρήσῃς τὰ κακά μοι, μηδὲ καταδικάσῃς μὲ ἐν τοῖς κατωτάτοις τῆς γῆς ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὃ θεὸς τῶν μετανοούντων, καὶ ἐν ἐμοὶ δείξεις τὴν ἀγαθωσύνην σου, ὅτι ἀνάξιον ὄντα σώσεις με κατὰ τὸ πολὺ ἔλεός σου" καὶ αἰνέσω σε διαπαντὸς ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ἡμέραις τῆς ζωῆς μου, ὅτι σὲ ὑμνεῖ πᾶσα ἡ δύναμις τῶν

kaka epi Hierousalēm kai Ioudan, hōste pantos akouontos auta ēchēsei amphotera ta ōta autou, kai ektenō epi Hierousalēm to metron Samareias kai ton stathmon oikou Achaab, kai apaleipsō tēn Hierousalēm, kathōs apaleiphetai to pyxion apaleiphomenon, kai katastrepsō epi prosōpon autou kai apodōsomai to hypoleimma tēs klēronomias mou, kai paradōsō autous eis cheiras echthrōn autōn, kai esontai eis diarpagēn kai pronomēn pasi tois echthrois autōn" anth᾽ hōn hosa epoiēsan ponēra en ophthalmois mou, kai ēsan parorgizontes me aph᾽ hēs hēmeras exēgagon tous pateras autōn ek gēs Aigyptou kai heōs tēs hēmeras tautēs. 9. kai ge haima athōon execheen Manassēs poly sphodra, heōs hou eplēsen tēn Hierousalēm stoma epi stomati, plēn apo tōn hamartiōn autou hōn exēmarten ton Ioudan poiēsai to ponēron en ophthalmois kyriou. 10. kai ēgagen kyrios epi auton tous archontas tēs dynameōs tou basileōs Assour, kai katelabonto ton Manassēn en desmois kai edēsan auton en pedais chalkais kai ēgagon auton eis Babylōna" kai ēn dedemenos kai katasesidērōmenos holos en oikǭ phylakēs, kai edidoto autǭ ek pityrōn artos en stathmǭ brachys kai hydōr syn oxei oligon en metrǭ, hōste zēn auton, kai ēn synechomenos kai odynōmenos sphodra. 11. kai hōs biaiōs ethlibē, ezētēsen to prosōpon kyriou tou theou autou, kai etapeinōthē sphodra apo prosōpou kyriou tou theou tōn paterōn autou, kai prosēuxato pros kyrion ton theon legōn" 12. Kyrie pantokrator, ho theos tōn paterōn hēmōn, tou Abraam kai Isaak kai Iakōb kai tou spermatos autōn tou dikaiou, ho poiēsas ton ouranon kai tēn gēn syn panti tǭ kosmǭ autōn, ho pedēsas tēn thalassan tǭ logǭ tou prostagmatos sou, ho kleisas tēn abysson kai sphragisamenos autēn tǭ phoberǭ kai endoxǭ onomati sou, hon panta phrissei kai tremei apo prosōpou dynameōs sou, hoti astektos hē megaloprepeia tēs doxēs sou kai anypostatos hē orgē tēs epi hamartōlous apeilēs sou, ametrēton te kai anexichniaston to eleos tēs epangelias sou" hoti sy ei kyrios makrothymos, eusplanchnos, polyeleos kai metanoōn epi tais kakiais tōn anthrōpōn᾽ hoti sy, ho theos, kata tēn chrēstotēta tēs agathōsynēs sou epēngeilō metanoias aphesin tois hēmartēkosin, kai tǭ plēthei tōn oiktirmōn sou hōrisas metanoian hamartōlois eis sōtērian. 13. sy oun, kyrie ho theos tōn dikaiōn, ouk ethou metanoian dikaiois, tǭ Abraam kai Isaak kai Iakōb, tois ouch hēmartēkosin soi, all᾽ ethou metanoian epi emoi tǭ hamartōlǭ, dioti hēmarton hyper arithmon psammou thalassēs. eplēthynan hai anomiai mou, kyrie, eplēthynan hai anomiai mou, kai ouketi eimi axios atenisai kai idein to hypsos tou ouranou apo plēthous tōn adikiōn mou, katakamptomenos pollǭ desmǭ sidērou, dioti parōrgisa ton thymon sou kai to ponēron enōpion sou epoiēsa stēsas bdelygmata kai plēthynas prosochthismata. 14. kai nyn klinō gony kardias mou, deomenos tēs para sou chrēstotētos. hēmartēka, kyrie, hēmartēka, kai tas anomias mou egō ginōskō; all᾽ aitoumai deomenos sou" anes moi, kyrie, anes moi, kai mē synapolesę̄s me tais anomiais mou, mēde eis ton aiōna mēnisas tērēsę̄s ta kaka moi, mēde katadikasę̄s me en tois katōtatois tēs gēs hoti sy ei ho theos tōn metanoountōn, kai en emoi deixeis tēn agathōsynēn sou, hoti anaxion onta sōseis me kata to poly eleos sou" kai ainesō se diapantos en pasais tais hēmerais tēs zōēs mou, hoti se hymnei pasa hē dynamis tōn

evils upon Jerusalem and Judah, so that both ears of everyone who hears of them shall ring; and I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as a writing tablet is wiped clean, and turn it upside down; and I will give up the remnant of my inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies, and they shall become plunder and spoil to all their enemies, because of all the evil they have done in my eyes, and because they have been provoking me from the day I brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt until this day. [9] Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from end to end, besides the sins by which he made Judah sin, to do evil in the eyes of the Lord. [10] And the Lord brought against him the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, and they seized Manasseh in bonds and bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon; and he was bound and wholly loaded with iron in the prison house, and bread of bran was given him, little and by weight, and water mixed with vinegar, little and by measure, just enough to keep him alive; and he was in distress and great pain. [11] And when he was severely afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the Lord, the God of his fathers, and prayed to the Lord God, saying: [12] “Lord Almighty, God of our fathers, of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and of their righteous seed; you who made heaven and earth with all their order; who bound the sea by the word of your command; who shut up the deep and sealed it with your terrible and glorious name; before whom all things shudder and tremble at the presence of your power; for the majesty of your glory cannot be borne, and the anger of your threat against sinners cannot be withstood, and immeasurable and unsearchable is the mercy of your promise; for you are the Lord, long-suffering, compassionate, very merciful, relenting at the evils of men. For you, O God, according to the kindness of your goodness, have promised forgiveness through repentance to those who have sinned, and in the multitude of your mercies you have appointed repentance for sinners unto salvation. [13] You, then, Lord, God of the righteous, did not appoint repentance for the righteous, for Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, who did not sin against you; but you have appointed repentance for me, a sinner, for I have sinned beyond the number of the sand of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, Lord, my transgressions are multiplied, and I am no longer worthy to look up and see the height of heaven for the multitude of my iniquities, bowed down by many bonds of iron, because I provoked your anger and did evil before you, setting up abominations and multiplying offences. [14] And now I bend the knee of my heart, begging for your kindness. I have sinned, Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my transgressions; but I ask, begging you: Release me, Lord, release me, and do not destroy me with my transgressions; do not be angry forever and store up evils for me, nor condemn me to the lowest parts of the earth. For you are the God of those who repent, and in me you will show your goodness, for unworthy as I am you will save me according to your great mercy; and I will praise you continually all the days of my life; for all the host of the

2 Kgs 21:12–16 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Chr 33:11–13 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The judgment on Manasseh, his captivity in Babylon, and his prayer of repentance (the Prayer of Manasseh).

Continues 2.22.0; Funk’s sections 9–14 are marked [9]–[14]. 2 Kgs 21:12–16; 2 Chr 33:10–13. The description of the prison and the prayer itself (the Prayer of Manasseh) are not in 2 Kings or 2 Chronicles; the prayer is known as a separate book. Two blocks of Funk’s apparatus, at the start of the ref and inside the prayer, are removed.

Notes on the original text

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Extrabiblical texts: Pr Man 1-15 (Prayer of Manasseh [in EO, ETH canons]; quotation)

Topics: Prayer

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.22.1 (Funk 1:83–87; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-22-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.22.3Funk 1:87–89

οὐρανῶν καὶ σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας" ἀμήν. 15. καὶ ἐπήκουσεν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ κύριος καὶ ᾠκτείρησεν αὐτόν" καὶ ἐγένετο περὶ αὐτὸν φλὸξ πυρός, καὶ ἐτάκησαν πάντα τὰ περὶ αὐτὸν σίδηρα, καὶ ἰάσατο κύριος τὸν Μανασσῆν ἐκ τῆς θλίψεως αὑτοῦ καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν αὐτὸν εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ. 16. καὶ ἔγνω Μανασσῆς, ὅτι κύριος αὐτός ἐστιν θεὸς μόνος, καὶ ἐλάτρευσεν μόνῳ κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτοῦ πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐλογίσθη δίκαιος. 17. καὶ περιεῖλεν τοὺς θεοὺς τοὺς ἀλλοτρίους καὶ τὸ γλυπτὸν ἐξ οἴκου κυρίου καὶ πάντα τὰ θυσιαστήρια, ἃ ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐν ὄρει οἴκου κυρίου καὶ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ, καὶ ἐξέβαλεν ἔξω τῆς πόλεως" καὶ κατώρθωσε τὸ θυσιαστήριον κυρίου, καὶ ἐθυσίασεν ἐπὶ αὐτῷ θυσίαν σωτηρίου καὶ αἰνέσεως, καὶ εἶπεν Μανασσῆς τῷ Ἰούδᾳ τοῦ δουλεύειν κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ Ἰσραήλ. 18. καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ἐν εἰρήνῃ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὑτοῦ" καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀμὼς ὃ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ᾽ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐποίησεν τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον κυρίου κατὰ πάντα, ὅσα ἐποίησε Μανασσῆς ὃ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ ἐν πρώτοις, καὶ παρώξυνεν κύριον τὸν θεὸν αὐτοῦ“.

ouranōn kai sou estin hē doxa eis tous aiōnas" amēn. 15. kai epēkousen tēs phōnēs autou kyrios kai ǭkteirēsen auton" kai egeneto peri auton phlox pyros, kai etakēsan panta ta peri auton sidēra, kai iasato kyrios ton Manassēn ek tēs thlipseōs hautou kai epestrepsen auton eis Hierousalēm epi tēn basileian autou. 16. kai egnō Manassēs, hoti kyrios autos estin theos monos, kai elatreusen monǭ kyriǭ tǭ theǭ en holę̄ tę̄ kardią autou kai en holę̄ tę̄ psychę̄ autou pasas tas hēmeras tēs zōēs autou, kai elogisthē dikaios. 17. kai perieilen tous theous tous allotrious kai to glypton ex oikou kyriou kai panta ta thysiastēria, ha ǭkodomēsen en orei oikou kyriou kai en Hierousalēm, kai exebalen exō tēs poleōs" kai katōrthōse to thysiastērion kyriou, kai ethysiasen epi autǭ thysian sōtēriou kai aineseōs, kai eipen Manassēs tǭ Ioudą tou douleuein kyriǭ tǭ theǭ Israēl. 18. kai ekoimēthē en eirēnę̄ meta tōn paterōn hautou" kai ebasileusen Amōs ho huios autou ant᾽ autou, kai epoiēsen to ponēron enōpion kyriou kata panta, hosa epoiēse Manassēs ho patēr autou en prōtois, kai parōxynen kyrion ton theon autou“.

heavens praises you, and yours is the glory forever. Amen.” [15] And the Lord heard his voice and had compassion on him; and a flame of fire came about him, and all the iron about him melted away; and the Lord healed Manasseh of his affliction and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. [16] And Manasseh knew that the Lord, he alone is God, and he served the Lord God alone with all his heart and with all his soul all the days of his life, and was reckoned righteous. [17] And he removed the foreign gods and the graven image from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and threw them out of the city; and he restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it a sacrifice of peace offering and praise; and Manasseh told Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel. [18] And he slept in peace with his fathers; and Amon his son reigned in his place, and did evil before the Lord according to all that Manasseh his father had done at first, and provoked the Lord his God.”

2 Chr 33:13–20 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: God heard Manasseh, freed him miraculously and restored him; he reformed his worship, but his son Amon did evil.

Funk’s sections 15–18 sit in this staged ref; marked [15]–[18]. The flame of fire and the melting of his chains are not in 2 Chronicles; 2 Chr 33:13–20. “Amon” is Ἀμώς in the Greek, as in the LXX. A fragment of Funk’s apparatus at the start of the ref is removed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; apparatus removed; section numeral misread): ἃ.: σπάσας τὰς ἡμέρας V → ; ἐστιν j| δόξα → ἐστιν ἡ δόξα; ἐπήχουσεν → ἐπήκουσεν; οκτείρησεν → ᾠκτείρησεν; xci ἐτάκησαν πάντα τὰ περὶ αὐτὸ» σίδηρα → καὶ ἐτάκησαν πάντα τὰ περὶ αὐτὸν σίδηρα; Μανασσῆν ix τῆς → Μανασσῆν ἐκ τῆς; αὐτοῦ. τό. καὶ ἔγνω → αὐτοῦ. 16. καὶ ἔγνω; xai ἐλογίσθη → καὶ ἐλογίσθη; φχοδόμησεν → ᾠκοδόμησεν; “ἱερουσαλήμ → Ἱερουσαλήμ.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.22.3 (Funk 1:87–89; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-22-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 2, chapter 23

2.23.1Funk 1:89

Ἠκούσατε, τέκνα ποθητὰ ἡμῶν, ὅπως κύριος ὁ θεὸς τὸν εἰδώλοις προσανασχόντα καὶ πολλοὺς ἀθώους φονεύσαντα, βραχέως τιμωρησάμενος, μεταγνόντα προσελάβετο, καὶ ἀφεὶς αὐτῷ τὰ πλημμελήματα ἐπέστρεψεν αὐτὸν περὶ τὴν βασιλείαν" οὐ μόνον γὰρ ἀφίησιν τοῖς μετανοοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς τὴν προτέραν ἀξίαν αὐτοὺς ἐπανάγει. μείζων εἰδωλολατρείας οὐκ ἔστιν ἁμαρτία, εἰς θεὸν γάρ ἐστιν δυσσέβεια᾽ ἀλλ ὅμως καὶ αὐτὴ διὰ γνησίας μετανοίας συγκεχώρηται.

Ēkousate, tekna pothēta hēmōn, hopōs kyrios ho theos ton eidōlois prosanaschonta kai pollous athōous phoneusanta, bracheōs timōrēsamenos, metagnonta proselabeto, kai apheis autǭ ta plēmmelēmata epestrepsen auton peri tēn basileian" ou monon gar aphiēsin tois metanoousin, alla kai eis tēn proteran axian autous epanagei. meizōn eidōlolatreias ouk estin hamartia, eis theon gar estin dyssebeia᾽ all homōs kai autē dia gnēsias metanoias synkechōrētai.

You have heard, our beloved children, how the Lord God, after briefly punishing one who had devoted himself to idols and murdered many innocent people, received him when he repented, and forgiving him his transgressions restored him to his kingdom. For he not only forgives the penitent but also brings them back to their former dignity. There is no sin greater than idolatry, for it is impiety against God; yet even this has been forgiven through genuine repentance.

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Summary: Manasseh shows that God forgives even idolatry upon genuine repentance and restores the penitent.

The digital text has “(XXIII)”, the older chapter number, before μείζων; removed.

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Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.23.1 (Funk 1:89; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-23-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.23.2Funk 1:89–91

ἐὰν δέ τις ἐκ παρατάξεως ἁμαρτάνῃ, πειράζων τὸν θεὸν ὡς μὴ ἐπεξιόντα τοῖς πονηροῖς, ὁ τοιοῦτος ἄφεσιν οὐχ ἕξει, κἂν λέγῃ παρ᾽ ἑαυτῷ" ,,Ὁσιά μοι γένοιτο, ὅτι πορεύσομαι ἐν τῇ ἀναστροφῇ τῆς καρδίας μου τῆς πονηρᾶς".

ean de tis ek parataxeōs hamartanę̄, peirazōn ton theon hōs mē epexionta tois ponērois, ho toioutos aphesin ouch hexei, kan legę̄ par᾽ heautǭ" ,,Hosia moi genoito, hoti poreusomai en tę̄ anastrophę̄ tēs kardias mou tēs ponēras".

But if anyone sins deliberately, testing God as though he did not punish the wicked, such a one will have no forgiveness, even if he says to himself, “May I have peace, for I will walk in the waywardness of my evil heart.”

Deut 29:19 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Deliberate sin presuming on God’s mercy has no forgiveness.

Deut 29:19 (LXX 29:18).

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): iv τῇ ἀναστροφῇ → ἐν τῇ ἀναστροφῇ.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.23.2 (Funk 1:89–91; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-23-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.23.3Funk 1:91

τοιοῦτος γάρ τις ἐγένετο καὶ Ἀμὼς ὁ τοῦ Μανασσῆ υἱός. φησὶν γὰρ ἡ γραφή" ,,Καὶ παρελογίσατο Ἀμὼς λογισμὸν παραβάσεως κακὸν καὶ εἶπεν" ὁ πατήρ μου ἐκ νεότητος πολλὰ παρηνόμησεν καὶ ἐν γήρᾳ μετέγνω" καὶ νῦν ἐγὼ πορεύσομαι xa ἐπιθυμεῖ ἡ ψυχή μου, καὶ ὕστερον ἐπιστρέφω πρὸς κύριον.

toioutos gar tis egeneto kai Amōs ho tou Manassē huios. phēsin gar hē graphē" ,,Kai parelogisato Amōs logismon parabaseōs kakon kai eipen" ho patēr mou ek neotētos polla parēnomēsen kai en gērą metegnō" kai nyn egō poreusomai xa epithymei hē psychē mou, kai hysteron epistrephō pros kyrion.

For such a one was Amon, the son of Manasseh. For the Scripture says: “And Amon reasoned an evil reasoning of transgression and said: My father transgressed much from his youth and repented in old age; and now I will walk as my soul desires, and afterward I will return to the Lord.

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Summary: Amon planned to sin and repent later, as his father had.

This saying of Amon is not in 2 Kings or 2 Chronicles; it comes from the tradition shared with the Didascalia.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Auoc → Ἀμὼς; »Kai παρελογίσατο ““μὼς → ,,Καὶ παρελογίσατο Ἀμὼς.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.23.3 (Funk 1:91; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-23-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.23.4Funk 1:91

καὶ ἐποίησεν τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον κυρίου παρὰ πάντας τοὺς γενομένους ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξωλόθρευσεν αὐτὸν κύριος ὃ θεὸς ἐν τάχει ἐκ τῆς γῆς τῆς ἀγαθῆς αὐτοῦ" καὶ ἐπέθεντο αὐτῷ οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐθανάτωσαν αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη δύο μόνα“.

kai epoiēsen to ponēron enōpion kyriou para pantas tous genomenous emprosthen autou, kai exōlothreusen auton kyrios ho theos en tachei ek tēs gēs tēs agathēs autou" kai epethento autǭ hoi paides autou kai ethanatōsan auton en tǭ oikǭ autou, kai ebasileusen etē dyo mona“.

And he did evil before the Lord beyond all who were before him, and the Lord God quickly destroyed him from his good land; and his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house, and he reigned only two years.”

2 Kgs 21:19–23 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Chr 33:21–24 (quotation, medium confidence)

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Summary: Amon was quickly destroyed and reigned only two years.

2 Kgs 21:19–23; 2 Chr 33:21–24.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.23.4 (Funk 1:91; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-23-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 2, chapter 24

2.24.1Funk 1:91

Προσέχετε οὖν, οἱ λαϊκοί, μή τις ἐξ ὑμῶν τὸν λογισμὸν τοῦ Ἀμὼς ἐπὶ καρδίαν αὑτοῦ στηρίξῃ, καὶ ἔσται συντόμως ἀπολλύμενος.

Prosechete oun, hoi laïkoi, mē tis ex hymōn ton logismon tou Amōs epi kardian hautou stērixę̄, kai estai syntomōs apollymenos.

Take heed, then, you laity, lest any of you fix the reasoning of Amon in his heart, and he be swiftly destroyed.

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Summary: The laity are warned not to plan sin counting on later repentance, like Amon.

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Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.24.1 (Funk 1:91; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-24-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.24.2Funk 1:91

ὁμοίως ὁ ἐπίσκοπος συντηρείτω, καθὸ δύναται, τοὺς μὴ ἡμαρτηκότας ἀναμαρτήτους μεῖναι, καὶ τοὺς ἀπὸ ἁμαρτιῶν ἐπιστρέφοντας θεραπεύων δεχέσθω.

homoiōs ho episkopos syntēreitō, katho dynatai, tous mē hēmartēkotas anamartētous meinai, kai tous apo hamartiōn epistrephontas therapeuōn dechesthō.

Likewise let the bishop, as far as he can, keep those who have not sinned so that they remain sinless, and let him heal and receive those who turn from their sins.

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Summary: The bishop must guard the innocent and receive the penitent.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.24.2 (Funk 1:91; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-24-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.24.3Funk 1:91

ἐὰν δὲ μετεγνωκότα ἀνηλεὴς ὢν μὴ προσδέξηται, ἁμαρτήσει εἰς κύριον τὸν θεὸν αὐτοῦ, δικαιῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ τὴν ἐκείνου δικαιοσύνην καὶ μὴ προσλαμβανόμενος ὃν προσεδέξατο διὰ Χριστοῦ, δι᾽ ὃν ἀπέστειλεν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ γῆς τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ὡς ἄνθρωπον, δι᾽ ὃν εὐδόκησεν ἐκ γυναικὸς αὐτὸν γεννηθῆναι τὸν ποιητὴν ἀνδρὸς καὶ γυναικός᾽ οὗ χάριν, μὴ φεισάμενος σταυρῷ καὶ θανάτῳ καὶ ταφῇ, συνεχώρησεν παθεῖν τὸν φύσει ἀπαθῆ, τὸν υἱὸν τὸν ἀγαπητὸν, τὸν θεὸν λόγον, τὸν τῆς μεγάλης αὐτοῦ βουλῆς ἄγγελον“, ὅπως τοὺς ὑποκειμένους θανάτῳ ῥύσηται τοῦ θανάτου.

ean de metegnōkota anēleēs ōn mē prosdexētai, hamartēsei eis kyrion ton theon autou, dikaiōn heauton hyper tēn ekeinou dikaiosynēn kai mē proslambanomenos hon prosedexato dia Christou, di᾽ hon apesteilen ton huion autou epi gēs tois anthrōpois hōs anthrōpon, di᾽ hon eudokēsen ek gynaikos auton gennēthēnai ton poiētēn andros kai gynaikos᾽ hou charin, mē pheisamenos staurǭ kai thanatǭ kai taphę̄, synechōrēsen pathein ton physei apathē, ton huion ton agapēton, ton theon logon, ton tēs megalēs autou boulēs angelon“, hopōs tous hypokeimenous thanatǭ rhysētai tou thanatou.

But if, being merciless, he does not receive one who has repented, he will sin against the Lord his God, justifying himself above God’s own righteousness and not receiving one whom God received through Christ — for whose sake he sent his Son on earth to men as a man; for whose sake he was pleased that the Maker of man and woman should be born of a woman; for whose sake, not sparing him the cross and death and burial, he allowed him to suffer, who by nature cannot suffer, his beloved Son, God the Word, “the angel of his great counsel,” so that he might rescue from death those subject to death.

Isa 9:6 (9:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 4:4 (allusion, medium confidence) · Rom 8:32 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: A bishop who refuses the penitent sets himself above God, who sent his Son to become man and die for sinners.

Isa 9:6 (LXX 9:5). The statement that the Son is by nature impassible yet was allowed to suffer is translated as written.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): μετεγνωχότα ἀνηλεὴς ὧν → μετεγνωκότα ἀνηλεὴς ὢν; ξαυτὸν ὑπὲρ τὴν ἐχείνου → ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ τὴν ἐκείνου; δί ὃν ἀπέστειλεν → δι᾽ ὃν ἀπέστειλεν; τὸν vj, φύσει → τὸν φύσει; ὑποχειμένους → ὑποκειμένους.

Topics: Christology, Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.24.3 (Funk 1:91; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-24-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.24.4Funk 1:91–93

τοῦτον παροργίζουσιν οἱ μὴ προσδεχόμενοι τοὺς μετανοοῦντας. οὗτος γὰρ Ματθαῖον ἐμὲ τελώνην ὄντα τὸ πρότερον οὐκ ἐπῃσχύνθη᾽ καὶ Πέτρον, ἀρνησάμενον αὐτὸν διὰ δέος τρίτον καὶ διὰ μετανοίας ἐξιλεωσάμενον καὶ προσκλαύσαντα πικρῶς, προσήκατο καὶ ποιμένα τῶν ἰδίων ἀρνίων κατέστησεν᾽ καὶ Παῦλον δὲ τὸν συναπόστολον ἡμῶν, πολλὰ τὸ πρότερον εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐπιτριψάμενον κακὰ καὶ βλασφημήσαντα εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἅγιον, ἀπόστολον ἀντὶ διώκτου προεχειρίσατο, ,,σκεῦος“ αὐτὸν ,,ἐκλογῆς“ ἀναδείξας.

touton parorgizousin hoi mē prosdechomenoi tous metanoountas. houtos gar Matthaion eme telōnēn onta to proteron ouk epę̄schynthē᾽ kai Petron, arnēsamenon auton dia deos triton kai dia metanoias exileōsamenon kai prosklausanta pikrōs, prosēkato kai poimena tōn idiōn arniōn katestēsen᾽ kai Paulon de ton synapostolon hēmōn, polla to proteron eis hēmas epitripsamenon kaka kai blasphēmēsanta eis to onoma to hagion, apostolon anti diōktou proecheirisato, ,,skeuos“ auton ,,eklogēs“ anadeixas.

Him those who do not receive the penitent provoke to anger. For he was not ashamed of me, Matthew, who had formerly been a tax collector; and Peter, who had denied him three times through fear but appeased him by repentance and wept bitterly, he accepted and made shepherd of his own lambs; and Paul, our fellow apostle, who had formerly done us many evils and blasphemed the holy name, he appointed an apostle instead of a persecutor, showing him to be “a vessel of election.”

Matt 9:9 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 26:75 (allusion, high confidence) · John 21:15 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Tim 1:13 (allusion, medium confidence) · Acts 9:15 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ received Matthew, Peter and Paul despite their past, so the penitent must be received.

The work speaks in the voice of the apostles; here Matthew speaks. Matt 9:9; Matt 26:75; John 21:15; 1 Tim 1:13; Acts 9:15.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): xoi Πέτρον → καὶ Πέτρον; μεταγνοίας → μετανοίας; προσχλαύσαντα → προσκλαύσαντα; συνἀπόστολον → συναπόστολον; διαύκτου → διώκτου; ,,ὐκεῦος““ αὐτὸν ,, ἐκλογῆς“ → ,,σκεῦος“ αὐτὸν ,,ἐκλογῆς“.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.24.4 (Funk 1:91–93; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-24-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.24.5Funk 1:93

καὶ ἄλλῃ τινὶ ἁμαρτωλῷ γυναικὶ λέγει· ,,ἀφέωνταί σου αἱ ἁμαρτίαι αἱ πολλαί, ὅτι ἠγάπησας πολύ“.

kai allę̄ tini hamartōlǭ gynaiki legei; ,,apheōntai sou hai hamartiai hai pollai, hoti ēgapēsas poly“.

And to another, a sinful woman, he says: “Your sins, which are many, are forgiven, because you loved much.”

Luke 7:47–48 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ forgave the sinful woman who loved much.

Luke 7:47–48.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): λέγει͵, ἀφέωνταί σου αἵ → λέγει· ,,ἀφέωνταί σου αἱ; πολύ". → πολύ“..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.24.5 (Funk 1:93; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-24-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.24.6Funk 1:93

ἑτέραν δέ τινὰ ἡμαρτηκυῖαν ἔστησαν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ θέμενοι τὴν κρίσιν ἐξῆλθον" ὁ δὲ καρδιογνώστης κύριος, πυθόμενος αὐτῆς, εἰ κατέκριναν αὐτὴν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι, καὶ εἰπούσης, ὅτι οὔ, ἔφη πρὸς αὐτήν" ,,Ὕπαγε οὖν, οὐδὲ ἐγώ σε κατακρίνω“.

heteran de tina hēmartēkuian estēsan hoi presbyteroi emprosthen autou, kai ep᾿ autǭ themenoi tēn krisin exēlthon" ho de kardiognōstēs kyrios, pythomenos autēs, ei katekrinan autēn hoi presbyteroi, kai eipousēs, hoti ou, ephē pros autēn" ,,Hypage oun, oude egō se katakrinō“.

Another woman who had sinned the elders set before him, and leaving the judgment to him they went out; and the Lord, who knows the heart, asked her whether the elders had condemned her, and when she said no, he said to her: “Go, then; neither do I condemn you.”

John 8:3–11 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ did not condemn the woman brought to him by the elders.

The story of the woman taken in adultery (John 7:53–8:11), told here with “elders” as her accusers; the Didascalia has the same form.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.24.6 (Funk 1:93; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-24-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.24.7Funk 1:93

τοῦτον τὸν σωτῆρα, βασιλέα καὶ θεὸν ἡμῶν, ὦ ἐπίσκοποι, σκοπὸν ὑμᾶς ἔχειν δεῖ, τούτου μιμητὰς εἶναι, ,,πραεῖς, ἡσυχίους“, εὐσπλάγχνους, ἐλεήμονας, εἰρηνικούς, ἀοργήτους, ,,διδακτικούς“, ἐπιστρεπτικούς, εἰσδεκτικούς, παρακλητικούς, ,,μὴ πλήκτας, μὴ ὀργίλους“ μὴ ὑβριστάς, μὴ ἀλαζόνας, μὴ ὑπεροπτικούς, μὴ οἰνόφλυγας, μὴ μεθύσους, μὴ εἰκαιοδαπάνους, μὴ τρυφητάς, μὴ πολυδαπάνους, μὴ ὡς ἀλλοτρίοις, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἰδίοις τοῖς τοῦ θεοῦ δόμασιν χρωμένους ὡς καθεστῶτας ἀγαθοὺς οἰκονόμους, ὡς μέλλοντας ἀπαιτεῖσθαι παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν λόγον.

touton ton sōtēra, basilea kai theon hēmōn, ō episkopoi, skopon hymas echein dei, toutou mimētas einai, ,,praeis, hēsychious“, eusplanchnous, eleēmonas, eirēnikous, aorgētous, ,,didaktikous“, epistreptikous, eisdektikous, paraklētikous, ,,mē plēktas, mē orgilous“ mē hybristas, mē alazonas, mē hyperoptikous, mē oinophlygas, mē methysous, mē eikaiodapanous, mē tryphētas, mē polydapanous, mē hōs allotriois, all᾽ hōs idiois tois tou theou domasin chrōmenous hōs kathestōtas agathous oikonomous, hōs mellontas apaiteisthai para tou theou ton logon.

This Saviour, our King and God, O bishops, you must have as your model; you must be his imitators: “meek, quiet,” compassionate, merciful, peaceable, free from anger, “apt to teach,” eager to convert, ready to receive, ready to console; “not strikers, not quick-tempered,” not insolent, not boastful, not arrogant, not given to wine, not drunkards, not wasteful, not luxurious, not extravagant; using the gifts of God not as another’s but as your own, as men appointed good stewards, as those who will be required by God to give account.

1 Tim 3:2–3 (quotation, high confidence) · Titus 1:7 (allusion, medium confidence) · 1 Pet 4:10 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Bishops must imitate Christ in gentleness and mercy and be faithful stewards of God’s gifts.

1 Tim 3:2–3; Titus 1:7; 1 Pet 4:10; cf. Isa 66:2.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): εἶναι, (πραεῖς → εἶναι, ,,πραεῖς; »διδαχτικούς", → ,,διδακτικούς“,; »μἱῇὴ πλήκτας → ,,μὴ πλήκτας; olvóφλυγας → οἰνόφλυγας.

Topics: Church office, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.24.7 (Funk 1:93; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-24-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 2, chapter 25

2.25.1Funk 1:93

Αὐτάρκη ἐχέτω τροφὴν καὶ ἀμφιασμὸν ὃ ἐπίσκοπος τὸν τῇ χρείᾳ καὶ τῇ σεμνότητι προσήκοντα· μὴ τοῖς κυριακοῖς ὡς ἀλλοτρίοις κεχρήσθω, ἀλλὰ μεμετρημένως" ,,ἄξιος γὰρ ὁ ἐργάτης τοῦ μισθοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐστιν“.

Autarkē echetō trophēn kai amphiasmon ho episkopos ton tę̄ chreią kai tę̄ semnotēti prosēkonta; mē tois kyriakois hōs allotriois kechrēsthō, alla memetrēmenōs" ,,axios gar ho ergatēs tou misthou autou estin“.

Let the bishop have sufficient food and clothing, such as befit need and dignity; let him not use the Lord’s goods as another’s, but with moderation; for “the labourer is worthy of his wages.”

Luke 10:7 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Tim 5:18 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The bishop may live modestly from the church’s goods.

Luke 10:7; 1 Tim 5:18.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): προσήχοντα᾽ → προσήκοντα·.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.25.1 (Funk 1:93; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-25-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.25.2Funk 1:93–95

μὴ σπαταλὸς μηδὲ πέρπερος, ἀλλὰ μόνων τῶν πρὸς σύστασιν ἐφιέμενος, τὰ διδόμενα κατ᾽ ἐντολὴν θεοῦ τῶν δεκατῶν καὶ τῶν ἀπαρχῶν ὡς θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος ἀναλισκέτω᾽ τὰ εἰσφερόμενα ἐπὶ προφάσει πενήτων ἑκούσια καλῶς οἰκονομείτω ὀρφανοῖς καὶ χήραις καὶ θλιβομένοις καὶ ξένοις ἀπορουμένοις, ὡς ἔχων θεὸν λογιστευτὴν τούτων τὸν ἐγχειρίσαντα αὐτῷ ταύτην τὴν οἰκονομίαν.

mē spatalos mēde perperos, alla monōn tōn pros systasin ephiemenos, ta didomena kat᾽ entolēn theou tōn dekatōn kai tōn aparchōn hōs theou anthrōpos analisketō᾽ ta eispheromena epi prophasei penētōn hekousia kalōs oikonomeitō orphanois kai chērais kai thlibomenois kai xenois aporoumenois, hōs echōn theon logisteutēn toutōn ton encheirisanta autǭ tautēn tēn oikonomian.

Let him not be luxurious or vain, but desire only what is needed to sustain him. The tithes and first fruits given according to God’s command let him spend as a man of God; and the free-will offerings brought in on behalf of the poor let him dispense well to orphans and widows and the afflicted and needy strangers, as one who has God, who entrusted this stewardship to him, as the auditor of these things.

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Summary: The bishop must use tithes and first fruits rightly and distribute the offerings for the poor faithfully.

The digital text has “(XXV)”, the older chapter number, before τὰ διδόμενα; removed.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; older chapter number removed): ἐφιέμενος, (XXV) τὰ → ἐφιέμενος, τὰ; ἑχούσια → ἑκούσια; oixovouiav → οἰκονομίαν.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.25.2 (Funk 1:93–95; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-25-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.25.3Funk 1:95

πᾶσι δὲ τοῖς δεομένοις μετὰ δικαιοσύνης ἐπιμερίζοντες, καὶ ὑμεῖς αὐτοὶ χρώμενοι ἐκ τῶν κυριακῶν, ἀλλὰ μὴ παραχρώμενοι, ἐσθίοντες ἐξ αὐτῶν, ἀλλὰ μὴ κατεσθίοντες αὐτὰ μόνοι, κοινωνοῦντες δὲ τοῖς χρήζουσιν, ἀπρόσκοποι θεῷ γίνεσθε· ἐὰν γὰρ μόνοι αὐτὰ ἀναλώσητε, ὀνειδισθήσεσθε παρὰ θεοῦ λέγοντος ὡς πρὸς ἀπλήστους καὶ μονοφάγους· ,,Τὸ γάλα κατεσθίετε καὶ τὰ ἔρια περιβάλλεσθε“,, καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις" , Μὴ οἰκήσετε μόνοι ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς“; διὸ καὶ ἐν τῷ Νόμῳ προστέτακται ὑμῖν· ,,Ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν“.

pasi de tois deomenois meta dikaiosynēs epimerizontes, kai hymeis autoi chrōmenoi ek tōn kyriakōn, alla mē parachrōmenoi, esthiontes ex autōn, alla mē katesthiontes auta monoi, koinōnountes de tois chrēzousin, aproskopoi theǭ ginesthe; ean gar monoi auta analōsēte, oneidisthēsesthe para theou legontos hōs pros aplēstous kai monophagous; ,,To gala katesthiete kai ta eria periballesthe“,, kai en allois" , Mē oikēsete monoi epi tēs gēs“? dio kai en tǭ Nomǭ prostetaktai hymin; ,,Agapēseis ton plēsion sou hōs seauton“.

Distributing with righteousness to all who are in need, and yourselves using the Lord’s goods but not abusing them, eating from them but not devouring them alone, sharing with those in want — be blameless before God. For if you consume them alone, you will be reproached by God, who says as to the greedy who eat alone: “You eat the milk and clothe yourselves with the wool,” and elsewhere: “Will you dwell alone on the earth?” Therefore it is also commanded you in the Law: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”

Ezek 34:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 5:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Lev 19:18 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Clergy may live from the church’s goods but must share them with the needy.

Ezek 34:3; Isa 5:8; Lev 19:18.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ἀπρόσχοχο. θεῷ γίνεσθε᾽ʼ → ἀπρόσκοποι θεῷ γίνεσθε·; ὀνειδισθήὅεσθε → ὀνειδισθήσεσθε; μονοφαγους" » Τὸ → μονοφάγους· ,,Τὸ; τῷ Nóuo προστέτακται Ouiv' ,, 4γαπήσεις → τῷ Νόμῳ προστέτακται ὑμῖν· ,,Ἀγαπήσεις.

Topics: Church office, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.25.3 (Funk 1:95; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-25-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.25.4Funk 1:95

καὶ ταῦτα λέγομεν, οὐχ ἵνα μὴ μεταλαμβάνητε ὑμῶν τῶν πόνων, γέγραπται γάρ᾽ ,,Οὐ φιμώσεις βοῦν ἀλοῶντα“, ἀλλ ἵνα μεμετρημένως μετὰ δικαιοσύνης.

kai tauta legomen, ouch hina mē metalambanēte hymōn tōn ponōn, gegraptai gar᾽ ,,Ou phimōseis boun aloōnta“, all hina memetrēmenōs meta dikaiosynēs.

And we say these things not that you should not partake of your labours — for it is written, “You shall not muzzle an ox that treads out the grain” — but that you should do so with moderation and righteousness.

Deut 25:4 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 9:9 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Clergy may share in the fruits of their labour, but in moderation.

Deut 25:4; 1 Cor 9:9.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): μὲ μεταλαμβάνητε → μὴ μεταλαμβάνητε.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.25.4 (Funk 1:95; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-25-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.25.5Funk 1:95

ὃν τρόπον οὖν ὃ βοῦς, ἐργαζόμενος ἐν τῇ ἅλῳ ἀκήμωτος, ἐσθίει μέν, ἀλλ οὐ τὸ πᾶν κατεσθίει, οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς, ἐργαζόμενοι εἰς τὴν ἅλω, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστιν εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ θεοῦ, ἐκ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐσθίετε, ὃν τρόπον καὶ οἱ λευῖται οἱ λειτουργοῦντες τῇ σκηνῇ τοῦ μαρτυρίου, ἥτις ἦν τύπος τῆς ἐκκλησίας κατὰ πάντα, προσέτι δὲ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ὀνόματος μαρτύριον τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἡ σκηνὴ προωρίζετο.

hon tropon oun ho bous, ergazomenos en tę̄ halǭ akēmōtos, esthiei men, all ou to pan katesthiei, houtōs kai hymeis, ergazomenoi eis tēn halō, tout᾽ estin eis tēn ekklēsian tou theou, ek tēs ekklēsias esthiete, hon tropon kai hoi leuitai hoi leitourgountes tę̄ skēnę̄ tou martyriou, hētis ēn typos tēs ekklēsias kata panta, proseti de kai ek tou onomatos martyrion tēs ekklēsias hē skēnē proōrizeto.

As, then, the ox working unmuzzled on the threshing floor eats but does not devour everything, so you too, working on the threshing floor, that is, in the church of God, eat from the church, as did the Levites who ministered at the tabernacle of witness, which was in every respect a figure of the church; moreover, by its very name the tabernacle was appointed beforehand as a witness to the church.

Num 18:21 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Like the Levites at the tabernacle, a figure of the church, clergy live from the church.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.25.5 (Funk 1:95; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-25-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.25.6Funk 1:95

ἐνταῦθα γοῦν οἱ λευῖται τῇ σκηνῇ προσεδρεύοντες ἐκ τῶν εἰς τὴν προσφορὰν τοῦ θεοῦ διδομένων ὑπὸ παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ δώρων καὶ ἀφαιρεμάτων καὶ ἀπαρχῶν καὶ δεκατῶν καὶ θυσιῶν καὶ προσφορῶν μετεῖχον ἀκωλύτως, αὐτοὶ καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ καὶ αἱ θυγατέρες αὐτῶν᾽ ἐπειδὴ δὲ τὸ ἔργον αὐτῶν ἦν λειτουργία τῆς σκηνῆς, διὰ τοῦτο κληροδοσίαν γῆς οὐκ ἔλαβον ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραήλ, ὅτι αἱ εἰσφοραὶ τοῦ λαοῦ κληροδοσία τοῦ Λευὶ καὶ κληρονομία τῆς φυλῆς αὐτοῦ.

entautha goun hoi leuitai tę̄ skēnę̄ prosedreuontes ek tōn eis tēn prosphoran tou theou didomenōn hypo pantos tou laou dōrōn kai aphairematōn kai aparchōn kai dekatōn kai thysiōn kai prosphorōn meteichon akōlytōs, autoi kai hai gynaikes autōn kai hoi huioi kai hai thygateres autōn᾽ epeidē de to ergon autōn ēn leitourgia tēs skēnēs, dia touto klērodosian gēs ouk elabon en tois huiois Israēl, hoti hai eisphorai tou laou klērodosia tou Leui kai klēronomia tēs phylēs autou.

There, indeed, the Levites who attended the tabernacle shared freely in what was given by all the people for God’s offering — gifts, heave offerings, first fruits, tithes, sacrifices and offerings — they and their wives and their sons and daughters; and since their work was the ministry of the tabernacle, they received no allotment of land among the sons of Israel, because the contributions of the people were the allotment of Levi and the inheritance of his tribe.

Num 18:20–24 (allusion, high confidence) · Deut 18:1–2 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: The Levites lived from the people’s offerings instead of land.

Num 18:20–24; Deut 18:1–2.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Aevi → Λευὶ.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.25.6 (Funk 1:95; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-25-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.25.7Funk 1:95–97

ὑμεῖς οὖν σήμερον, ὦ ἐπίσκοποι, ἐστὲ τῷ λαῷ ὑμῶν ἱερεῖς λευῖται, οἱ λειτουργοῦντες τῇ ἱερᾷ σκηνῇ, τῇ ἁγίᾳ καθολικῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, καὶ παρεστῶτες τῷ θυσιαστηρίῳ κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ προσάγοντες αὐτῷ τὰς λογικὰς καὶ ἀναιμάκτους θυσίας διὰ ,,Ἰησοῦ τοῦ μεγάλου ἀρχιερέως“· ὑμεῖς τοῖς ἐν ὑμῖν λαϊκοῖς ἐστε προφῆται, ἄρχοντες καὶ ἡγούμενοι καὶ βασιλεῖς, οἱ μεσῖται θεοῦ καὶ τῶν πιστῶν αὐτοῦ, οἱ δοχεῖς τοῦ λόγου καὶ ἀγγελτῆρες, οἱ γνῶσται τῶν γραφῶν καὶ φθόγγοι τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ μάρτυρες τοῦ θελήματος αὐτοῦ, οἱ πάντων τὰς ἁμαρτίας βαστάζοντες καὶ περὶ πάντων ἀπολογούμενοι" οἷς, ὡς ἠκούσατε, ἐμβριθῶς ὃ λόγος ἀπειλεῖ, ἐὰν κρύψητε ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ,,τὴν τῆς γνώσεως κλεῖδα“ οἷς κίνδυνος ὀλέθριος, ἐὰν μὴ διαγγείλητε τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ τῷ ὑφ᾽ ὑμᾶς λαῷ· οἷς παρὰ θεοῦ μισθὸς ἀψευδὴς καὶ κλέος ἀνεκδιήγητον ἐν δόξῃ, καλῶς λειτουργήσασιν τῇ σκηνῇ τῇ ἁγίᾳ.

hymeis oun sēmeron, ō episkopoi, este tǭ laǭ hymōn hiereis leuitai, hoi leitourgountes tę̄ hierą skēnę̄, tę̄ hagią katholikę̄ ekklēsią, kai parestōtes tǭ thysiastēriǭ kyriou tou theou hēmōn kai prosagontes autǭ tas logikas kai anaimaktous thysias dia ,,Iēsou tou megalou archiereōs“; hymeis tois en hymin laïkois este prophētai, archontes kai hēgoumenoi kai basileis, hoi mesitai theou kai tōn pistōn autou, hoi docheis tou logou kai angeltēres, hoi gnōstai tōn graphōn kai phthongoi tou theou kai martyres tou thelēmatos autou, hoi pantōn tas hamartias bastazontes kai peri pantōn apologoumenoi" hois, hōs ēkousate, embrithōs ho logos apeilei, ean krypsēte ex anthrōpōn ,,tēn tēs gnōseōs kleida“ hois kindynos olethrios, ean mē diangeilēte to thelēma autou tǭ hyph᾽ hymas laǭ; hois para theou misthos apseudēs kai kleos anekdiēgēton en doxę̄, kalōs leitourgēsasin tę̄ skēnę̄ tę̄ hagią.

You, then, O bishops, are today priests and Levites to your people, who minister at the sacred tabernacle, the holy catholic church, who stand at the altar of the Lord our God and offer him the rational and bloodless sacrifices through “Jesus the great high priest.” To the laity among you, you are prophets, rulers, leaders and kings, mediators between God and his faithful, receivers and heralds of the word, knowers of the Scriptures, voices of God and witnesses of his will, who bear the sins of all and make defence for all. Against you, as you have heard, the word threatens heavily if you hide from men “the key of knowledge”; for you there is deadly danger if you do not declare his will to the people under you; for you there is from God an unfailing reward and indescribable glory, if you have ministered well at the holy tabernacle.

Heb 4:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 11:52 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Bishops are the priests and Levites of the church, who offer the bloodless sacrifices and must teach God’s will.

Heb 4:14; Luke 11:52. The “rational and bloodless sacrifices” are the eucharistic offerings.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): xai ἀναιμάκτους → καὶ ἀναιμάκτους; ,,Ἰησοῦ τοῦ μεγάλου ἀρχιερέως"““" → ,,Ἰησοῦ τοῦ μεγάλου ἀρχιερέως“·; oi μεσῖται → οἱ μεσῖται; χρύψητε ἐξ ἀνθρώzOv ,,.1γὴν τῆς γνώσεως κλεῖδα“ → κρύψητε ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ,,τὴν τῆς γνώσεως κλεῖδα“; ὑμᾶς And: → ὑμᾶς λαῷ·.

Topics: Church office, Eucharist

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.25.7 (Funk 1:95–97; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-25-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.25.8Funk 1:97

ὡς γὰρ τὸ βάρος ὑμέτερον, οὕτως καὶ τὰς διακονίας τῶν τροφῶν καὶ τὰς ἄλλας χρείας ὑμεῖς καρποῦσθε.

hōs gar to baros hymeteron, houtōs kai tas diakonias tōn trophōn kai tas allas chreias hymeis karpousthe.

For as the burden is yours, so you also enjoy the provision of food and of your other needs.

Notes and citation

Summary: Those who carry the burden are provided for.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.25.8 (Funk 1:97; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-25-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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2.25.9Funk 1:97–103

μιμηταὶ γὰρ ἔστε Χριστοῦ τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ ὡς ,,αὐτὸς πάντων ἡμῶν τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἀνήνεγκεν“ ἐπὶ τὸ ξύλον, σταυρωθεὶς ὃ ἄμωμος ὑπὲρ τῶν κολάσεως ἀξίων, οὕτως καὶ ὑμᾶς τοῦ λαοῦ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἐξιδιοποιεῖσθαι χρή. 10. εἴρηται γὰρ περὶ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἐν Ἡσαΐᾳ, ὅτι ,,οὗτος τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν φέρει καὶ περὶ ἡμῶν ὀδυνᾶται“. 11. καὶ πάλινʼ ,, Αὐτὸς ἁμαρτίας πολλῶν ἀνήνεγκεν καὶ διὰ τὰς ἀνομίας αὐτῶν παρεδόθης“. 12. ὥσπερ οὖν ὑμεῖς σκοποί ἐστε, οὕτως καὶ σκοπὸν ἔχετε τὸν Χριστόν" ὡς οὖν αὐτὸς πάντων ὑμῶν, οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς τῶν ὑφ᾽ ὑμᾶς λαϊκῶν. μὴ γὰρ νομίζετε, ὅτι εὐχερὲς ἢ ἐλαφρὸν φορτίον ἐστὶν ἡ ἐπισκοπή. 13. χρὴ οὖν, ὡς τὸ βάρος φέρετε, οὕτως καὶ τῶν καρπῶν πρώτους μεταλαμβάνειν καὶ τοῖς δεομένοις μεταδιδόναι, ὡς λόγον ὑφέξοντας τῷ ἀπαραλογίστως ὑμᾶς μέλλοντι λογιστεύειν. 14. δεῖ γὰρ τοὺς τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ προσεδρεύοντας ἐκ τῆς ἐκκλησίας διατρέφεσθαι, ἅτε ἱερεῖς, λευίτας, προέδρους, λειτουργοὺς θεοῦ, καθὼς ἐν βίβλῳ τῶν Ἀριθμῶν γέγραπται περὶ τῶν ἱερέων" 15. ,,Καὶ εἶπεν κύριος πρὸς Ἀαρών· σὺ καὶ οἱ υἱοί σου καὶ ὃ οἶκος πατριᾶς σου λήψεσθε τὰς ἁμαρτίας τῶν ἁγίων, τῆς ἱερατείας ὑμῶν. 16. ἰδοὺ δέδωκα ὑμῖν τὴν διατήρησιν τῶν ἀπαρχῶν ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἡγιασμένων μοι παρὰ τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ᾽ σοὶ δέδωκα αὐτὰ εἰς γέρας καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς σου μετὰ σέ, νόμιμον αἰώνιον" καὶ τοῦτο ἔσται ὑμῖν ἀπὸ τῶν ἡγιασμένων, ἐκ τῶν καρπωμάτων καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν δώρων καὶ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν θυσιῶν καὶ ἀπὸ πάσης πλημμελείας καὶ περὶ ἁμαρτιῶν, καὶ ὅσα ἀποδιδόασίν μοι ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων, σοὶ ἔσται καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς σου" ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ φάγεσθε αὐτά“. 17. καὶ μετ᾽ ὀλίγαʼ ,,Πᾶσα ἀπαρχὴ ἐλαίου καὶ οἴνου καὶ σίτου, ὅσα ἂν δῶσιν κυρίῳ, σοὶ δέδωκα αὐτά, καὶ τὰ πρωτογεννήματα πάντα σοι δέδωκα, καὶ σοὶ ἐρεῖ πᾶν ἀνάθεμα" πᾶν πρωτότοκον ἀνθρώπου καὶ κτήνους καθαροῦ καὶ ἀκαθάρτου καὶ θυσίας καὶ στηθυνίου καὶ βραχίονος δεξιοῦ τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν προσανήκει καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς τοῖς παραμένουσιν αὐτοῖς λευίταις“.

mimētai gar este Christou tou kyriou, kai hōs ,,autos pantōn hēmōn tas hamartias anēnenken“ epi to xylon, staurōtheis ho amōmos hyper tōn kolaseōs axiōn, houtōs kai hymas tou laou tas hamartias exidiopoieisthai chrē. 10. eirētai gar peri tou sōtēros en Hēsaïą, hoti ,,houtos tas hamartias hēmōn pherei kai peri hēmōn odynatai“. 11. kai palinʼ ,, Autos hamartias pollōn anēnenken kai dia tas anomias autōn paredothēs“. 12. hōsper oun hymeis skopoi este, houtōs kai skopon echete ton Christon" hōs oun autos pantōn hymōn, houtōs kai hymeis tōn hyph᾽ hymas laïkōn. mē gar nomizete, hoti eucheres ē elaphron phortion estin hē episkopē. 13. chrē oun, hōs to baros pherete, houtōs kai tōn karpōn prōtous metalambanein kai tois deomenois metadidonai, hōs logon hyphexontas tǭ aparalogistōs hymas mellonti logisteuein. 14. dei gar tous tę̄ ekklēsią prosedreuontas ek tēs ekklēsias diatrephesthai, hate hiereis, leuitas, proedrous, leitourgous theou, kathōs en biblǭ tōn Arithmōn gegraptai peri tōn hiereōn" 15. ,,Kai eipen kyrios pros Aarōn; sy kai hoi huioi sou kai ho oikos patrias sou lēpsesthe tas hamartias tōn hagiōn, tēs hierateias hymōn. 16. idou dedōka hymin tēn diatērēsin tōn aparchōn apo pantōn tōn hēgiasmenōn moi para tōn huiōn Israēl᾽ soi dedōka auta eis geras kai tois huiois sou meta se, nomimon aiōnion" kai touto estai hymin apo tōn hēgiasmenōn, ek tōn karpōmatōn kai apo tōn dōrōn kai apo pantōn tōn thysiōn kai apo pasēs plēmmeleias kai peri hamartiōn, kai hosa apodidoasin moi apo pantōn tōn hagiōn, soi estai kai tois huiois sou" en tǭ hagiǭ phagesthe auta“. 17. kai met᾽ oligaʼ ,,Pasa aparchē elaiou kai oinou kai sitou, hosa an dōsin kyriǭ, soi dedōka auta, kai ta prōtogennēmata panta soi dedōka, kai soi erei pan anathema" pan prōtotokon anthrōpou kai ktēnous katharou kai akathartou kai thysias kai stēthyniou kai brachionos dexiou tois hiereusin prosanēkei kai tois loipois tois paramenousin autois leuitais“.

For you are imitators of Christ the Lord; and as “he himself bore the sins of us all” upon the tree, the blameless one crucified for those who deserved punishment, so you too must make the sins of the people your own. [10] For it is said of the Saviour in Isaiah: “He bears our sins and suffers pain for us.” [11] And again: “He himself bore the sins of many and was handed over because of their iniquities.” [12] As, then, you are watchmen, so you also have Christ as your watchman; as, then, he is so for all of you, so are you for the laity under you. For do not think that the episcopate is an easy or a light burden. [13] As you bear the weight, then, so you must also be the first to partake of the fruits, and share them with those in need, as those who will give account to the one who will audit you without error. [14] For those who attend upon the church must be maintained from the church, as priests, Levites, presidents and ministers of God, as it is written in the book of Numbers concerning the priests: [15] “And the Lord said to Aaron: You and your sons and your father’s house shall bear the sins of the holy things, of your priesthood. [16] Behold, I have given you the keeping of the first fruits of all that is consecrated to me by the sons of Israel; I have given them to you as a portion, and to your sons after you, a perpetual ordinance; and this shall be yours from the holy things, from the burnt offerings and from the gifts and from all the sacrifices and from every trespass offering and for sins; and all that they render to me of all the holy things shall be yours and your sons’; in the holy place you shall eat them.” [17] And a little later: “All the first fruits of oil and wine and grain, whatever they give to the Lord, I have given to you, and all the first produce I have given to you, and every devoted thing shall be yours. Every firstborn of man and of beast, clean and unclean, and the sacrifices, and the breast and the right shoulder belong to the priests and to the rest of the Levites who attend them.”

1 Pet 2:24 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 53:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 53:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 18:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 18:8–10 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 18:12–15 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: As Christ bore the people’s sins, bishops must bear them too, and so are rightly maintained by the church, as Numbers provides for the priests.

Funk’s sections 10–17 sit inside this staged ref (numerals misread); marked [10]–[17]. 1 Pet 2:24; Isa 53:4, 12 (LXX); Num 18:1, 8–10, 12–15, 18 (freely).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; section numeral misread): ὡς ,,αὐτὸς “ πάντων (ἡμῶν → ὡς ,,αὐτὸς πάντων ἡμῶν; χρή. το. εἴρηται → χρή. 10. εἴρηται; ὅτι, οὗτος → ὅτι ,,οὗτος; ὀδυνᾶται. τι. καὶ → ὀδυνᾶται“. 11. καὶ; ἣ ἐπισκοπή → ἡ ἐπισκοπή; πρότοὺς → πρώτους; ,,Kol εἶπεν κύριος πρὸς Aagow' → ,,Καὶ εἶπεν κύριος πρὸς Ἀαρών·; ὑμῶν. τό. ἰδοὺ → ὑμῶν. 16. ἰδοὺ; (Πᾶσα ἀπαρχὴ → ,,Πᾶσα ἀπαρχὴ; προσανήχει → προσανήκει.

Topics: Church office, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 2.25.9 (Funk 1:97–103; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/2-19-1/#p-2-25-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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