Apostolic Constitutions 5.14.1–6.4.3

Anonymous · Apostolic Constitutions · ca. 380 · Antioch (probably) · 67 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 5, chapter 14

5.14.1Funk 1:271

Ἤρξαντο γὰρ τὴν κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου βουλὴν ποιεῖσθαι δευτέρᾳ σαββάτων μηνὶ πρώτῳ, ὅς ἐστι Ξανθικός· καὶ τῇ τρίτῃ τοῦ σαββάτου παρέτεινεν ἡ σκέψις, τῇ δὲ τετράδι ὡρίσαντο σταυρῷ ἀνελεῖν αὐτόν.

Ērxanto gar tēn kata tou kyriou boulēn poieisthai deuterą sabbatōn mēni prōtǭ, hos esti Xanthikos; kai tę̄ tritę̄ tou sabbatou pareteinen hē skepsis, tę̄ de tetradi hōrisanto staurǭ anelein auton.

For they began to take counsel against the Lord on the second day of the week, in the first month, which is Xanthicus; and on the third day of the week the deliberation went on, and on the fourth they decided to put him to death on a cross.

Notes and citation

Summary: The plot against the Lord began on Monday and was settled on Wednesday.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): "Ho&avro → Ἤρξαντο; ς" → ς· .

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.14.1 (Funk 1:271; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-14-1). (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.

5.14.2Funk 1:271

καὶ Ἰούδας γνοὺς τοῦτο, ἐκ πολλοῦ μὲν διαστραφείς, τότε δὲ καὶ ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ τοῦ διαβόλου βληθεὶς φιλαργυρίᾳ, καίτοι πάλαι τὸ γλωσσόκομον ἐγκεχειρισμένος καὶ κλέπτων τὰ τῶν πενήτων, οὐκ ἀπεβλήθη ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου διὰ μακροθυμίαν᾽· ἀλλὰ καί ποτε μὲν ἑστιωμένων ἡμῶν σὺν αὐτῷ, βουλόμενος καὶ αὐτὸν σωφρονίσαι καὶ ἡμᾶς παιδεῦσαι τὴν πρόγνωσιν αὐτοῦ, λέγει Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι εἷς ἐξ ὑμῶν παραδώσει με.

kai Ioudas gnous touto, ek pollou men diastrapheis, tote de kai hyp᾽ autou tou diabolou blētheis philargyrią, kaitoi palai to glōssokomon enkecheirismenos kai kleptōn ta tōn penētōn, ouk apeblēthē hypo tou kyriou dia makrothymian᾽; alla kai pote men hestiōmenōn hēmōn syn autǭ, boulomenos kai auton sōphronisai kai hēmas paideusai tēn prognōsin autou, legei Amēn amēn legō hymin, hoti heis ex hymōn paradōsei me.

And Judas, knowing this, having long been perverted, and then struck by the devil himself with love of money (although he had long been entrusted with the money bag and stole what belonged to the poor, he was not cast off by the Lord because of his long-suffering), but once, as we were dining with him, the Lord, wishing both to bring him to his senses and to teach us his foreknowledge, says: “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”

John 12:6 (allusion, high confidence) · John 13:21 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Christ, who bore long with the thieving Judas, foretold at supper that one of them would betray him.

John 12:6; quotation: John 13:21.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): óx → ὑπ᾽ ; τὸ. γλωσσόχομον → τὸ γλωσσόκομον; ᾽" → ᾽· ; πρόγνῶσιν → πρόγνωσιν; ,,( Ἀμὴν → Ἀμὴν; με΄. → με..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.14.2 (Funk 1:271; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-14-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.14.3Funk 1:271–273

καὶ ἑκάστου ἡμῶν λέγοντος· Μήτι ἐγώ; καὶ τοῦ κυρίου σιωπῶντος, ἀναστὰς ἐγώ, εἷς ἐκ τῶν δώδεκα, φιλούμενος πλεῖον τῶν ἄλλων ὑπ αὐτοῦ, ἐνστερνισάμενος αὐτὸν ἱκέτευον εἰπεῖν, τίς ἂν εἴη ὁ παραδώσων αὐτόν᾽ καὶ οὐδ᾽ οὕτως ἡμῖν εἴρηκεν αὐτοῦ τὸ ὄνομα ὁ ἀγαθὸς κύριος, ἀλλὰ δύο σημεῖα τοῦ προδότου ἔδωκεν, ἕν μὲν εἰπών· , Ὁ ἐμβαπτόμενος μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ ἐν τῷ τρυβλίῳ, δεύτερον δέ ᾯ ἐγὼ βάψας τὸ ψωμίον ἐπιδώσω.

kai hekastou hēmōn legontos; Mēti egō? kai tou kyriou siōpōntos, anastas egō, heis ek tōn dōdeka, philoumenos pleion tōn allōn hyp autou, ensternisamenos auton hiketeuon eipein, tis an eiē ho paradōsōn auton᾽ kai oud᾽ houtōs hēmin eirēken autou to onoma ho agathos kyrios, alla dyo sēmeia tou prodotou edōken, hen men eipōn; , Ho embaptomenos met᾽ emou en tǭ trybliǭ, deuteron de Hǭ egō bapsas to psōmion epidōsō.

And when each of us said, “Is it I?” and the Lord was silent, I, one of the twelve, loved by him more than the others, rose and, leaning on his breast, begged him to say who it was who would betray him; and not even then did the good Lord tell us his name, but he gave two signs of the traitor, first saying, “He who dips with me in the dish,” and second, “He to whom I shall give the morsel when I have dipped it.”

Matt 26:22–23 (quotation, high confidence) · John 13:23–26 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: John asked who the traitor was, and Christ gave two signs without naming him.

The speaker is John, “loved more than the others.” Matt 26:22–23; John 13:23–26.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): " unt ἐγ“ → · Μήτι ἐγώ; ν" → ν· ; ῳ“, → ῳ,; , Qu ἐγὼ → ᾯ ἐγὼ; ω“. → ω..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.14.3 (Funk 1:271–273; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-14-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.14.4Funk 1:273

καίτοι κἀκείνου λέγοντος. Μήτι ἐγώ εἰμι, ῥαββί; οὐκ εἶπεν ὃ κύριος, ὅτι ναί, ἀλλ᾿ ὅτι Σὺ εἶπας, καὶ φοβῆσαι αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τούτῳ βουληθείς, φησίν· Οὐαὶ τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐκείνῳ, δι᾽ οὗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου παραδίδοται· καλὸν ἦν αὐτῷ, εἰ οὐκ ἐγεννήθη.

kaitoi kakeinou legontos. Mēti egō eimi, rhabbi? ouk eipen ho kyrios, hoti nai, all᾿ hoti Sy eipas, kai phobēsai auton epi toutǭ boulētheis, phēsin; Ouai tǭ anthrōpǭ ekeinǭ, di᾽ hou ho huios tou anthrōpou paradidotai; kalon ēn autǭ, ei ouk egennēthē.

And yet, when he too said, “Is it I, Rabbi?” the Lord did not say “Yes,” but “You have said it”; and wishing to frighten him by this, he says: “Woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed; it would have been good for him if he had not been born.”

Matt 26:25 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 26:24 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Christ answered Judas indirectly and warned him of woe.

Quotations: Matt 26:25, 24.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): «Μ → Μ; eiut → εἰμι; ί“; → ί;; ὅτε, σὺ → ὅτι Σὺ; ς“, → ς,; " ,, → · ; διʼ οὐ ὃ → δι᾽ οὗ ὁ; ι" → ι· ; η“. → η..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.14.4 (Funk 1:273; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-14-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.14.5Funk 1:273

καὶ ταῦτα ἀκούσας, ἀπελθὼν εἶπεν τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν· Τί θέλετέ μοι δοῦναι, καὶ ἐγὼ ὑμῖν αὐτὸν παραδώσω; οἱ δὲ ἔστησαν αὐτῷ τριάκοντα ἀργύρια.

kai tauta akousas, apelthōn eipen tois hiereusin; Ti thelete moi dounai, kai egō hymin auton paradōsō? hoi de estēsan autǭ triakonta argyria.

And having heard this, he went away and said to the priests: “What will you give me, and I will hand him over to you?” And they set for him thirty pieces of silver.

Matt 26:15 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Judas sold the Lord for thirty pieces of silver.

Quotation: Matt 26:15.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): " »Ti → · Τί; α“. → α..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.14.5 (Funk 1:273; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-14-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.14.6Funk 1:273

καὶ τῇ πέμπτῃ φαγόντες παρ᾽ αὐτῷ τὸ πάσχα, βάψαντος ἐκείνου τὴν χεῖρα εἰς τὸ τρυβλίον καὶ τὸ ψωμίον λαβόντος καὶ ἐξελθόντος νυκτός, ἡμῖν εἶπεν ὃ κύριος· Ἐλήλυθεν ἡ ὥρα, ἵνα σκορπισθῆτε καὶ ἐμὲ μόνον ἀφῆτε, καὶ ἑκάστου διϊσχυριζομένου μὴ ἐγκαταλεῖψαι αὐτόν, ἐμοῦ Πέτρου ἐπαγγελλομένου καὶ συναποθανεῖν, εἶπεν· Ἀμὴν λέγω σοι, πρὶν ἀλέκτορα φωνῆσαι, τρὶς ἀπαρνήσῃ μὴ εἰδέναι με.

kai tę̄ pemptę̄ phagontes par᾽ autǭ to pascha, bapsantos ekeinou tēn cheira eis to tryblion kai to psōmion labontos kai exelthontos nyktos, hēmin eipen ho kyrios; Elēlythen hē hōra, hina skorpisthēte kai eme monon aphēte, kai hekastou diïschyrizomenou mē enkataleipsai auton, emou Petrou epangellomenou kai synapothanein, eipen; Amēn legō soi, prin alektora phōnēsai, tris aparnēsę̄ mē eidenai me.

And on the fifth day, when we had eaten the Pascha with him, and that man had dipped his hand in the dish and taken the morsel and gone out at night, the Lord said to us: “The hour has come for you to be scattered and to leave me alone”; and when each insisted that he would not abandon him, and I, Peter, promised even to die with him, he said: “Truly I tell you, before the cock crows, you will deny three times that you know me.”

John 13:30 (allusion, high confidence) · John 16:32 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 26:33–35 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: After the Passover meal Christ foretold the disciples' flight and Peter's denial.

The speaker here is Peter. John 13:26–30; 16:32; Matt 26:33–35.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): νυχτός → νυκτός; " ,, → · ; ε“, → ε,; ἑχάστου → ἑκάστου; " "Ἀμὴν. → · Ἀμὴν; ἀλέχτορα → ἀλέκτορα; ust. → με..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.14.6 (Funk 1:273; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-14-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.14.7Funk 1:273

παραδοὺς δὲ ἡμῖν τὰ ἀντίτυπα μυστήρια τοῦ τιμίου σώματος αὐτοῦ καὶ αἵματος, Ἰούδα μὴ συμπαρόντος ἡμῖν, ἐξῆλθεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος τῶν ἐλαιῶν πλησίον τοῦ χειμάρρου τῶν κέδρων, ὅπου ἦν κῆπος· συνῆμεν δὲ καὶ ἡμεῖς καὶ ὑμνήσαμεν κατὰ τὸ ἔθος.

paradous de hēmin ta antitypa mystēria tou timiou sōmatos autou kai haimatos, Iouda mē symparontos hēmin, exēlthen eis to oros tōn elaiōn plēsion tou cheimarrou tōn kedrōn, hopou ēn kēpos; synēmen de kai hēmeis kai hymnēsamen kata to ethos.

And having delivered to us the antitypical mysteries of his precious body and blood, Judas not being present with us, “he went out to the Mount of Olives, near the brook Kidron, where there was a garden”; and we too were with him, and we sang a hymn, according to custom.

Matt 26:26–28 (allusion, medium confidence) · John 18:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 26:30 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: After giving the mysteries of his body and blood, Christ went out to the Mount of Olives with the eleven.

“Antitypical mysteries” (ἀντίτυπα μυστήρια): the bread and cup as figures of the body and blood. Judas is said to be absent, as in some early writers. John 18:1; Matt 26:30.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): tà ἀντίτυπα. → τὰ ἀντίτυπα; ,,ἐ → ἐ; ς" → ς· ; toc. → ἔθος..

Topics: Eucharist

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.14.7 (Funk 1:273; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-14-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.14.8Funk 1:273

καὶ χωρισθεὶς ἡμῶν οὐ πολύ, προσηύχετο τῷ πατρὶ λέγων, Πάτερ, παρένεγκε ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ τὸ ποτήριον· πλὴν μὴ τὸ ἐμὸν θέλημα γενέσθω, ἀλλὰ τὸ σόν. καὶ τοῦτο ποιήσας τρίτον, ἡμῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ἀθυμίας εἰς ὕπνον καταπεσόντων, ἐλθὼν λέγει· Ἤγγικεν ἡ ὥρα, καὶ ὃ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου παραδίδοται εἰς χεῖρας ἁμαρτωλῶν.

kai chōristheis hēmōn ou poly, prosēucheto tǭ patri legōn, Pater, parenenke ap᾽ emou to potērion; plēn mē to emon thelēma genesthō, alla to son. kai touto poiēsas triton, hēmōn apo tēs athymias eis hypnon katapesontōn, elthōn legei; Ēngiken hē hōra, kai ho huios tou anthrōpou paradidotai eis cheiras hamartōlōn.

And going a little way from us, he prayed to the Father, saying: “Father, let this cup pass from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” And when he had done this a third time, and we had fallen asleep from despondency, he came and said: “The hour has drawn near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.”

Luke 22:41–42 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 26:44–45 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Christ prayed three times in the garden while the disciples slept.

Quotations: Luke 22:42; Matt 26:44–45.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ν", → ν,; παρέγέγχε ἀπ → παρένεγκε ἀπ᾽; ν" → ν· ; ν“. → ν.; A£ysv ,Hyyuxsv → λέγει· Ἤγγικεν; ν". → ν..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.14.8 (Funk 1:273; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-14-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.14.9Funk 1:273–275

καὶ ἰδοὺ Ἰούδας καὶ μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ ὄχλος ἀσεβῶν᾽ καὶ σημεῖον προδοσίας αὐτοῖς δείκνυσιν δόλιον φίλημα, οἱ δὲ δεξάμενοι τὸ σύνθημα, ἐκράτησαν τὸν κύριον καὶ δέσμιον ποιησάμενοι ἤγαγον εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν Καϊάφα τοῦ ἀρχιερέως, ἐν ᾗ πολὺς συγκεκρότητο οὐ λαός, ἀλλ ὄχλος, οὐδὲ πρεσβυτέριον ἱερόν, ἀλλὰ συνέδριον παρανόμων καὶ βουλευτήριον ἀσεβῶν· οἱ καὶ πολλὰ ποιησάμενοι κατ᾽ αὐτοῦ πᾶν εἶδος ὕβρεως οὐ παρέλιπον, ἐμπτύοντες, κερτομοῦντες, τύπτοντες, ῥαπίζοντες, λοιδορούμενοι, πειράζοντες, μαντείας ἐπιζητοῦντες ἀντὶ προφητείας, εἴρωνα, βλάσφημον, Μωσέως παραβάτην, ἱεροῦ καθαιρέτην, θυσιῶν ἀναιρέτην, Ῥωμαίων πολέμιον, καίσαρος ἐναντίον ἀποκαλοῦντες.

kai idou Ioudas kai met᾽ autou ochlos asebōn᾽ kai sēmeion prodosias autois deiknysin dolion philēma, hoi de dexamenoi to synthēma, ekratēsan ton kyrion kai desmion poiēsamenoi ēgagon eis tēn oikian Kaïapha tou archiereōs, en hę̄ polys synkekrotēto ou laos, all ochlos, oude presbyterion hieron, alla synedrion paranomōn kai bouleutērion asebōn; hoi kai polla poiēsamenoi kat᾽ autou pan eidos hybreōs ou parelipon, emptyontes, kertomountes, typtontes, rhapizontes, loidoroumenoi, peirazontes, manteias epizētountes anti prophēteias, eirōna, blasphēmon, Mōseōs parabatēn, hierou kathairetēn, thysiōn anairetēn, Rhōmaiōn polemion, kaisaros enantion apokalountes.

And behold, Judas, and with him a crowd of ungodly men; and he shows them a treacherous kiss as the sign of betrayal; and they, receiving the signal, seized the Lord and, having bound him, led him into the house of Caiaphas the high priest, in which there had gathered not a people but a mob, not a holy council of elders but a sanhedrin of lawless men and a council chamber of the ungodly. And they, after doing many things against him, left out no kind of outrage: spitting on him, taunting, striking, slapping, reviling, testing him, seeking divination instead of prophecy, calling him a dissembler, a blasphemer, a transgressor of Moses, a destroyer of the temple, an abolisher of sacrifices, an enemy of the Romans, an opponent of Caesar.

Matt 26:47–49 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 26:57 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 26:67–68 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Judas betrayed Christ with a kiss, and Caiaphas's council mocked and abused him.

Matt 26:47–49, 57, 67–68. The polemic against the council is the work's own.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ἐν ἢ → ἐν ᾗ; ν" → ν· .

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.14.9 (Funk 1:273–275; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-14-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.14.10Funk 1:275

καὶ ταῦτα μέχρις ὄρθρου βαθέος ἐμπαροινήσαντες αὐτῷ οἱ ταῦροι καὶ οἱ κύνες ἀπάγουσιν αὐτὸν πρὸς ἄνναν, ὃς ἦν πενθερὸς τοῦ Καϊάφα· κἀκεῖ τὰ ὅμοια δράσαντες, παρασκευῆς οὔσης, τῷ ἄρχοντι τῶν Ῥωμαίων παρέδωκαν αὐτὸν Πιλάτῳ, κατηγοροῦντες αὐτοῦ πολλὰ καὶ βαρέα, ὧν οὐδὲν ἴσχυον ἀπελέγξαι᾽ ἐφ᾽ οἷς ὃ ἄρχων δυσανασχετήσας ἔλεγεν᾽Οὐδεμίαν αἰτίαν κατ᾽ αὐτοῦ εὑρίσκω. οἱ δὲ μάρτυρας δύο ψευδεῖς ἀγαγόντες ἐβούλοντο συκοφαντεῖν τὸν κύριον᾽ ἀσυμφώνων δὲ αὐτῶν εὑρεθέντων εἰς καθοσίωσιν ἀνῆγον τὸ πρᾶγμα λέγοντες· Οὗτος ἑαυτὸν λέγει βασιλέα εἶναι, καὶ φόρους καίσαρι διδόναι κωλύει.

kai tauta mechris orthrou batheos emparoinēsantes autǭ hoi tauroi kai hoi kynes apagousin auton pros annan, hos ēn pentheros tou Kaïapha; kakei ta homoia drasantes, paraskeuēs ousēs, tǭ archonti tōn Rhōmaiōn paredōkan auton Pilatǭ, katēgorountes autou polla kai barea, hōn ouden ischyon apelenxai᾽ eph᾽ hois ho archōn dysanaschetēsas elegen᾽Oudemian aitian kat᾽ autou heuriskō. hoi de martyras dyo pseudeis agagontes eboulonto sykophantein ton kyrion᾽ asymphōnōn de autōn heurethentōn eis kathosiōsin anēgon to pragma legontes; Houtos heauton legei basilea einai, kai phorous kaisari didonai kōlyei.

And after abusing him in this way until early dawn, “the bulls and the dogs” lead him away to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas; and when they had done similar things there, it being the day of Preparation, they handed him over to the ruler of the Romans, Pilate, accusing him of many grave things, none of which they could prove; at which the ruler, vexed, said: “I find no charge against him.” [11] And they, bringing two false witnesses, wanted to slander the Lord; but when these were found not to agree, they turned the matter into a charge of treason, saying: “This man says that he is a king, and forbids giving tribute to Caesar.”

Ps 22:12 (21:13 LXX) (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 22:16 (21:17 LXX) (allusion, medium confidence) · John 18:13 (allusion, high confidence) · John 18:38 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 26:60 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 23:2 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ was taken to Annas and to Pilate, who found no charge, and was then accused of treason.

The section number 11 was lost in the OCR; “[11]” marks where it begins.
“The bulls and the dogs”: Ps 22:12, 16. John 18:13, 28, 38; Matt 26:60–61; Luke 23:2.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.14.10 (Funk 1:275; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-14-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.14.12Funk 1:275

καὶ γίνονται αὐτοὶ κατήγοροι καὶ μάρτυρες καὶ κριταὶ καὶ τῆς ἀποφάσεως ἐξουσιασταὶ λέγοντες· Σταύρωσον, σταύρωσον αὐτόν, ἵνα πληρωθῇ ὅ,τι γέγραπται περὶ αὐτοῦ ἐν τοῖς Προφήταις᾽ Συνήχθησαν ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ μάρτυρες ἄδικοι, καὶ ἐψεύσατο ἡ ἀδικία ἑαυτήν, καὶ πάλιν, Περιεκύκλωσάν με κύνες πολλοί, συναγωγὴ πονηρευομένων περιέσχον με, καὶ ἐν ἑτέροις· Ἐγένετο ἡ κληρονομία μου ἐμοὶ ὡς λέων ἐν δρυμῷ, ἔδωκεν ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ τὴν φωνὴν αὐτῆς.

kai ginontai autoi katēgoroi kai martyres kai kritai kai tēs apophaseōs exousiastai legontes; Staurōson, staurōson auton, hina plērōthę̄ ho,ti gegraptai peri autou en tois Prophētais᾽ Synēchthēsan ep᾽ eme martyres adikoi, kai epseusato hē adikia heautēn, kai palin, Periekyklōsan me kynes polloi, synagōgē ponēreuomenōn perieschon me, kai en heterois; Egeneto hē klēronomia mou emoi hōs leōn en drymǭ, edōken ep᾽ eme tēn phōnēn autēs.

And they themselves become accusers and witnesses and judges and the authors of the sentence, saying: “Crucify, crucify him,” so that what is written about him in the Prophets might be fulfilled: “Unjust witnesses gathered against me, and injustice lied to itself,” and again, “Many dogs surrounded me; a congregation of evildoers enclosed me,” and in other places, “My inheritance became to me like a lion in the forest; it gave its voice against me.”

John 19:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 27:12 (26:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 22:16 (21:17 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 12:8 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ's accusers made themselves his judges, fulfilling the prophecies.

John 19:6. Quotations: Ps 27:12 (26:12 LXX); 22:16 (21:17 LXX); Jer 12:8.

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5.14.13Funk 1:275

ὁ οὖν Πιλᾶτος ἀνανδρίᾳ καταισχύνας τὴν ἀρχὴν αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν ἐξελέγχει κακίας, πρὸ τοῦ δικαίου τὰ πλήθη θεραπεύσας, καὶ μαρτυρῶν μὲν αὐτῷ ὡς ἀναιτίῳ, ὡς αἴτιον δὲ κολάσει τοῦτον παραδιδοὺς σταυρῷ, καίτοι Ῥωμαίων νόμους τιθεμένων μηδένα ἀνεξέλεγκτον θνήσκειν.

ho oun Pilatos anandrią kataischynas tēn archēn autos heauton exelenchei kakias, pro tou dikaiou ta plēthē therapeusas, kai martyrōn men autǭ hōs anaitiǭ, hōs aition de kolasei touton paradidous staurǭ, kaitoi Rhōmaiōn nomous tithemenōn mēdena anexelenkton thnēskein.

Pilate, then, having disgraced his office by cowardice, convicts himself of wickedness, courting the crowds in preference to justice, and while bearing witness to him as blameless, yet handing him over to the punishment of the cross as guilty, although the laws of the Romans laid down that no one should die without being convicted.

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Summary: Pilate condemned himself by handing over to the cross a man he had declared innocent.

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5.14.14Funk 1:275–281

δήμιοι δὲ παραλαβόντες τὸν τῆς δόξης κύριον ξύλῳ προσήλωσαν, ἕκτῃ μὲν ὥρᾳ σταυρώσαντες αὐτόν, τρίτῃ δὲ ὥρᾳ τὴν ἀπόφασιν δεξάμενοι τὴν περὶ αὐτοῦ. ἔπειτα ἔδωκαν αὐτῷ ὄξος πιεῖν μετὰ χολῆς, εἶτα τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ κλήρῳ διεμερίσαντο, ἔπειτα δύο κακούργους ἐσταύρωσαν σὺν αὐτῷ ἐξ ἑκατέρου μέρους, ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ γεγραμμένον. Ἔδωκαν εἰς τὸ βρῶμά μου χολὴν καὶ εἰς τὴν δίψαν μου ἐπότισάν με ὄξος, καὶ πάλιν· Διεμερίσαντο τὰ ἱμάτιά μου ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν ἱματισμόν μου ἔβαλον κλῆρον, καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις· Καὶ μετὰ ἀνόμων ἐλογίσθην. ἔπειτα ἐγένετο τρεῖς ὥρας σκότος, ἀπὸ ἕκτης ἕως ἐνάτης, καὶ πάλιν φῶς πρὸς δείλην, καθὼς γέγραπται, Καὶ οὐχ ἡμέρα καὶ οὐ νύξ, καὶ πρὸς ἑσπέραν ἔσται φῶς. καὶ περὶ τὴν ἐνάτην ὥραν ἀναβοήσας εἶπεν τῷ πατρί· Θεέ μου, θεέ μου, ἱνατί με ἐγκατέλιπες; καὶ μετ᾽ ὀλίγον κράξας φωνῇ μεγάλῃ· Πάτερ, ἄφες αὐτοῖς, οὐ γὰρ οἴδασιν ὃ ποιοῦσιν, καὶ ἐπαγαγών, Εἰς χεῖράς σου παρατίθημι τὸ πνεῦμά μου, ἀπέπνευσεν, καὶ θάπτεται πρὸ ἡλίου δύσεως ἐν μνημείῳ καινῷ. ἐπιφωσκούσης δὲ τῆς μιᾶς σαββάτων, ἀναστὰς ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐπλήρωσεν ἐκεῖνα, ἃ καὶ πρὸ τοῦ πάθους ἡμῖν προέλεγεν φάσκων, ὅτι δεῖ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ποιῆσαι ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ τῆς γῆς τρεῖς ἡμέρας καὶ τρεῖς νύχτας. καὶ ἀναστὰς νεκρῶν πρώτῃ μὲν φανεροῦται Μαρίᾳ τῇ Μαγδαληνῇ καὶ Μαρίᾳ τῇ τοῦ Ἰακώβου, εἶτα Κλεόπᾳ ἐν ὁδῷ, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἡμῖν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ, φεύγουσιν μὲν διὰ τὸν φόβον τῶν Ἰουδαίων, λαθραίως δὲ περιεργαζομένοις τὰ κατ᾽ αὐτόν. ταῦτα δὲ καὶ ἐν τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ ἐγράφη. παρήγγειλεν οὖν ἡμῖν αὐτὸς νηστεύειν τὰς ἕξ ἡμέρας ταύτας διὰ τὴν τῶν Ἰουδαίων δυσσέβειαν καὶ παρανομίαν, πενθεῖν αὐτοὺς καὶ ὀδύρεσθαι παρακελευσάμενος ἐπὶ τῇ ἀπωλείᾳ αὐτῶν· καὶ γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸς αὐτοῖς ἐπεδάκρυσεν, ἀγνοήσασι τὸν καιρὸν τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς αὐτῶν τετράδα δὲ καὶ παρασκευὴν προσέταξεν ἡμῖν νηστεύειν, τὴν μὲν διὰ τὴν προδοσίαν, τὴν δὲ διὰ τὸ πάθος· ἀπονηστεῦσαι δὲ προσέταξεν τῇ ἑβδόμῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἀλέκτορος φωνήσαντος, αὐτὸ δὲ νηστεῦσαι τὸ σάββατον, οὐχ ὅτι δεῖ τὸ σάββατον νηστεύειν, κατάπαυσιν δημιουργίας ὑπάρχον, ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι ἐκεῖνο μόνον χρὴ νηστεύειν, τοῦ δημιουργοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔτι ὑπὸ γῆν ὄντος. ἐν αὐτῇ γὰρ αὐτῶν τῇ ἑορτῇ κατέσχον τὸν κύριον, ὅπως πληρωθῇ ἐκεῖνο τὸ φάσκον λόγιον. Ἔθεντο τὰ σημεῖα αὐτῶν ἐν μέσῳ τῆς ἑορτῆς αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν. δεῖ οὖν πενθεῖν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἐλθόντος τοῦ κυρίου οὐκ ἐπίστευσαν αὐτῷ, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπεσείσαντο τὴν διδασκαλίαν αὐτοῦ, ἀναξίους κρίναντες ἑαυτοὺς σωτηρίας.

dēmioi de paralabontes ton tēs doxēs kyrion xylǭ prosēlōsan, hektę̄ men hōrą staurōsantes auton, tritę̄ de hōrą tēn apophasin dexamenoi tēn peri autou. epeita edōkan autǭ oxos piein meta cholēs, eita ta himatia autou klērǭ diemerisanto, epeita dyo kakourgous estaurōsan syn autǭ ex hekaterou merous, hina plērōthę̄ to gegrammenon. Edōkan eis to brōma mou cholēn kai eis tēn dipsan mou epotisan me oxos, kai palin; Diemerisanto ta himatia mou heautois, kai epi ton himatismon mou ebalon klēron, kai en allois; Kai meta anomōn elogisthēn. epeita egeneto treis hōras skotos, apo hektēs heōs enatēs, kai palin phōs pros deilēn, kathōs gegraptai, Kai ouch hēmera kai ou nyx, kai pros hesperan estai phōs. kai peri tēn enatēn hōran anaboēsas eipen tǭ patri; Thee mou, thee mou, hinati me enkatelipes? kai met᾽ oligon kraxas phōnę̄ megalę̄; Pater, aphes autois, ou gar oidasin ho poiousin, kai epagagōn, Eis cheiras sou paratithēmi to pneuma mou, apepneusen, kai thaptetai pro hēliou dyseōs en mnēmeiǭ kainǭ. epiphōskousēs de tēs mias sabbatōn, anastas ek nekrōn eplērōsen ekeina, ha kai pro tou pathous hēmin proelegen phaskōn, hoti dei ton huion tou anthrōpou poiēsai en tę̄ kardią tēs gēs treis hēmeras kai treis nychtas. kai anastas nekrōn prōtę̄ men phaneroutai Marią tę̄ Magdalēnę̄ kai Marią tę̄ tou Iakōbou, eita Kleopą en hodǭ, kai meta touto hēmin tois mathētais autou, pheugousin men dia ton phobon tōn Ioudaiōn, lathraiōs de periergazomenois ta kat᾽ auton. tauta de kai en tǭ Euangeliǭ egraphē. parēngeilen oun hēmin autos nēsteuein tas hex hēmeras tautas dia tēn tōn Ioudaiōn dyssebeian kai paranomian, penthein autous kai odyresthai parakeleusamenos epi tę̄ apōleią autōn; kai gar kai autos autois epedakrysen, agnoēsasi ton kairon tēs episkopēs autōn tetrada de kai paraskeuēn prosetaxen hēmin nēsteuein, tēn men dia tēn prodosian, tēn de dia to pathos; aponēsteusai de prosetaxen tę̄ hebdomę̄ hēmerą alektoros phōnēsantos, auto de nēsteusai to sabbaton, ouch hoti dei to sabbaton nēsteuein, katapausin dēmiourgias hyparchon, all᾽ hoti ekeino monon chrē nēsteuein, tou dēmiourgou en autǭ eti hypo gēn ontos. en autę̄ gar autōn tę̄ heortę̄ kateschon ton kyrion, hopōs plērōthę̄ ekeino to phaskon logion. Ethento ta sēmeia autōn en mesǭ tēs heortēs autōn, kai ouk egnōsan. dei oun penthein hyper autōn, hoti elthontos tou kyriou ouk episteusan autǭ, all᾽ apeseisanto tēn didaskalian autou, anaxious krinantes heautous sōtērias.

And the executioners, taking the Lord of glory, nailed him to the wood, crucifying him at the sixth hour, having received the sentence about him at the third hour. [15] Then “they gave him vinegar to drink with gall”; then “they divided his garments by lot”; then they crucified two criminals with him, one on each side, so that what was written might be fulfilled, “They gave gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink,” and again, “They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots,” and in other places, “And I was reckoned with the lawless.” [16] Then “there was darkness for three hours, from the sixth to the ninth,” and light again toward evening, as it is written, “And it shall be neither day nor night, and toward evening there shall be light.” [17] And about the ninth hour he cried out and said to the Father, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And a little later, crying with a loud voice, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing,” and adding, “Into your hands I commit my spirit,” he breathed his last; and he is buried before sunset in a new tomb. [18] And as the first day of the week was dawning, he rose from the dead and fulfilled what he had foretold to us before his passion, saying, “The Son of Man must spend three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” [19] And having “risen” from the dead, he appears “first to Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James,” then to Cleopas on the road, and after this to us his disciples, who had fled for fear of the Jews but were secretly inquiring into what concerned him. These things are also written in the Gospel. [20] He himself, then, commanded us to fast these six days because of the impiety and lawlessness of the Jews, bidding us mourn and lament over them for their destruction; for he himself too “wept over them, since they did not know the time of their visitation.” And he commanded us to fast on Wednesday and Friday, the one because of the betrayal, the other because of the passion; and he commanded us to break the fast on the seventh day at cockcrow, but to fast on the Sabbath itself, not because one ought to fast on the Sabbath, since it is the rest from creation, but because on that one alone one must fast, the Creator being still under the earth on it. [21] For on their very feast they seized the Lord, so that the oracle might be fulfilled which says, “They set up their signs in the midst of their feast, and they did not know.” We must, then, mourn for them, because when the Lord came they did not believe him, but shook off his teaching, judging themselves unworthy of salvation.

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Matt 27:34 (quotation, high confidence) · John 19:23–24 (allusion, high confidence) · Mark 15:27 (allusion, high confidence) · Ps 69:21 (68:22 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 22:18 (21:19 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 53:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Mark 15:33 (quotation, high confidence) · Zech 14:7 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 27:46 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 23:34 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 23:46 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 27:60 (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 12:40 (quotation, high confidence) · Mark 16:9 (quotation, medium confidence) · Matt 28:1 (allusion, medium confidence) · Luke 24:18 (allusion, high confidence) · John 20:19 (allusion, medium confidence) · Luke 19:41–44 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 74:4 (73:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The passion, burial, and resurrection are told, with the command to fast during Holy Week and on Wednesdays and Fridays.

The section numbers 15–21 were lost in the OCR; “[15]” etc. mark where each begins. Funk marks the start of the older chapter 15 at section 20.
“On that one alone”: the one Sabbath of the year (Holy Saturday) on which fasting is kept; the fast ends at cockcrow of the following night.
The passage's view of the Jews is translated as written.
Matt 27:34; John 19:23–24; Mark 15:27; quotations: Ps 69:21 (68:22 LXX); 22:18 (21:19 LXX); Isa 53:12; Mark 15:33; Zech 14:7; Matt 27:46; Luke 23:34, 46; Matt 27:60; 12:40; Mark 16:9; Matt 28:1; Luke 24:18; John 20:19; Luke 19:41–44; Ps 74:4 (73:4 LXX).

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Topics: Fasting, Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.14.14 (Funk 1:275–281; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-14-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 5, chapter 15

5.15.1Funk 1:281

Ὑμεῖς οὖν μακάριοι, οἵ ποτε οὐ λαός, νῦν δὲ ἔθνος ἅγιον ῥυσθὲν ἀπὸ πλάνης εἰδώλων, ἀπὸ ἀγνοίας, ἀπὸ δυσσεβείας· οἱ οὐκ ἠλεημένοι, νῦν δὲ ἐλεηθέντες διὰ τὴν ὑπακοὴν τῆς καρδίας ὑμῶν.

Hymeis oun makarioi, hoi pote ou laos, nyn de ethnos hagion rhysthen apo planēs eidōlōn, apo agnoias, apo dyssebeias; hoi ouk ēleēmenoi, nyn de eleēthentes dia tēn hypakoēn tēs kardias hymōn.

You, then, are blessed, “who once were not a people, but now a holy nation,” delivered from the error of idols, from ignorance, from impiety; “who had not received mercy, but now have received mercy” through the obedience of your heart.

1 Pet 2:9–10 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The Gentile believers, once no people, are now God's holy nation.

1 Pet 2:9–10.

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5.15.2Funk 1:281–283

ὑμῖν γὰρ ἠνοίγη ἡ πύλη τῆς ζωῆς τοῖς ἐξ ἐθνῶν, οἵτινές ποτε οὐκ ἠγαπημένοι, νῦν δὲ πεφιλημένοι, λαὸς εἰς περιποίησιν θεοῦ τεταγμένος τῷ τὰς ἀρετὰς αὐτοῦ ἐξαγγέλλειν, περὶ ὧν εἶπεν ὃ σωτήρ· Εὑρέθην τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ζητοῦσιν, ἐμφανὴς ἐγενόμην τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ἐπερωτῶσιν, εἶπα ἰδού εἶμι, τῷ ἔθνει, οἱ οὐκ ἐκάλεσαν τὸ ὄνομά μου.

hymin gar ēnoigē hē pylē tēs zōēs tois ex ethnōn, hoitines pote ouk ēgapēmenoi, nyn de pephilēmenoi, laos eis peripoiēsin theou tetagmenos tǭ tas aretas autou exangellein, peri hōn eipen ho sōtēr; Heurethēn tois eme mē zētousin, emphanēs egenomēn tois eme mē eperōtōsin, eipa idou eimi, tǭ ethnei, hoi ouk ekalesan to onoma mou.

For to you of the Gentiles the gate of life has been opened, who once were not loved but now are loved, “a people for possession” of God, appointed to proclaim his virtues; of whom the Savior said: “I was found by those who did not seek me; I became manifest to those who did not ask for me; I said, Behold, here I am, to the nation that did not call on my name.”

1 Pet 2:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 65:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 10:20 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The gate of life is opened to the Gentiles, as Isaiah foretold.

1 Pet 2:9; quotation: Isa 65:1 (cf. Rom 10:20), here spoken by the Savior.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,λ → λ; ν““ → ν ; σωτήρ᾽ʼ,, Εὐρέθην → σωτήρ· Εὑρέθην; sina → εἶπα; υ“. → υ..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.15.2 (Funk 1:281–283; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-15-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.15.3Funk 1:283

μὴ ζητήσαντες γὰρ αὐτόν ποτε ἐπεζητήθητε παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὑμεῖς πιστεύσαντες εἰς αὐτὸν ὑπηκούσατε τῇ κλήσει αὐτοῦ, καταλείψαντες τὴν πολύθεον μανίαν καὶ τῇ ἀληθεῖ μοναρχίᾳ προσφυγόντες, τῷ παντοκράτορι θεῷ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, πλήρωμα τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τῶν σωζομένων γενόμενοι, μύριαι μυριάδες καὶ χίλιαι χιλιάδες, ὡς ἐν τῷ Δαυὶδ γέγραπται.

mē zētēsantes gar auton pote epezētēthēte par᾽ autou, kai hymeis pisteusantes eis auton hypēkousate tę̄ klēsei autou, kataleipsantes tēn polytheon manian kai tę̄ alēthei monarchią prosphygontes, tǭ pantokratori theǭ dia Iēsou Christou, plērōma tou arithmou tōn sōzomenōn genomenoi, myriai myriades kai chiliai chiliades, hōs en tǭ Dauid gegraptai.

For though you did not seek him, you were once sought by him; and you, believing in him, obeyed his call, abandoning the madness of many gods and taking refuge in the true monarchy, in the almighty God through Jesus Christ, having become the fullness of the number of the saved, “ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands,” as is written in David.

Dan 7:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 68:17 (67:18 LXX) (echo, low confidence)

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Summary: The Gentiles, called by God, left polytheism and became the full number of the saved.

The quotation is Dan 7:10; “as is written in David” refers to similar sayings in the Psalms (cf. Ps 68:17; 91:7), which older editions quote here. A garbled fragment after it in the scan is removed.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: repeated line fragment removed): παντοχράτορι → παντοκράτορι; £vOUsvoL → γενόμενοι; ς“, → ς,; 10 γενομ μυρίαι uvo χ χ , " → .

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.15.3 (Funk 1:283; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-15-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.15.4Funk 1:283

πρὸς δὲ τὸν Ἰσραὴλ τὸν ἄπιστον λέγει· , Ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν τὰς χεῖράς μου ἐξεπέτασα πρὸς λαὸν ἀπειθοῦντα καὶ ἀντιλέγοντα, τοῖς πορευομένοις ἐν ὁδῷ οὐ καλῇ, ἀλλ᾽ ὀπίσω τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν, λαὸν παροξύνοντά μὲ ἐνώπιον ἐμοῦ.

pros de ton Israēl ton apiston legei; , Holēn tēn hēmeran tas cheiras mou exepetasa pros laon apeithounta kai antilegonta, tois poreuomenois en hodǭ ou kalę̄, all᾽ opisō tōn hamartiōn autōn, laon paroxynonta me enōpion emou.

But to unbelieving Israel he says: “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people, who walk in a way that is not good, but after their sins, a people that provokes me before my face.”

Isa 65:2–3 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 10:21 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God's complaint against unbelieving Israel is quoted.

Quotation: Isa 65:2–3 (cf. Rom 10:21).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ι" → ι· ; “΄. → ..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.15.4 (Funk 1:283; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-15-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 5, chapter 16

5.16.1Funk 1:283

Βλέπετε οὖν, ὅπως παρώξυνεν ὃ λαὸς τὸν κύριον, μὴ πιστεύσας αὐτῷ. διὸ λέγει· Παρώξυναν τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, καὶ ἐστράφη αὐτοῖς εἰς ἔχθραν

Blepete oun, hopōs parōxynen ho laos ton kyrion, mē pisteusas autǭ. dio legei; Parōxynan to pneuma to hagion, kai estraphē autois eis echthran

See, then, how the people provoked the Lord by not believing him. Therefore he says: “They provoked the Holy Spirit, and he was turned into enmity against them.”

Isa 63:10 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Israel's unbelief provoked the Holy Spirit.

Quotation: Isa 63:10.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): " , → · ; ν““ → ν.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.16.1 (Funk 1:283; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-16-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.16.2Funk 1:283–285

ἀβλεψία γὰρ αὐτοῖς κατεχύθη διὰ τὴν κακόνοιαν αὐτῶν, ὅτι βλέποντες τὸν Ἰησοῦν οὐκ ἐπίστευον αὐτὸν εἶναι τὸν Χριστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ, τὸν πρὸ πάντων αἰώνων ἐξ αὐτοῦ γεγεννημένον, υἱὸν μονογενῆ, λόγον θεόν, ὃν οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν δι᾽ ἀπιστίαν, οὔτε διὰ τῶν ἐνεργειῶν αὐτοῦ, οὔτε μὴν διὰ τῶν περὶ αὐτοῦ γεγραμμένων προφητειῶν.

ablepsia gar autois katechythē dia tēn kakonoian autōn, hoti blepontes ton Iēsoun ouk episteuon auton einai ton Christon tou theou, ton pro pantōn aiōnōn ex autou gegennēmenon, huion monogenē, logon theon, hon ouk epegnōsan di᾽ apistian, oute dia tōn energeiōn autou, oute mēn dia tōn peri autou gegrammenōn prophēteiōn.

For blindness was poured over them because of their ill will, since, seeing Jesus, they did not believe that he was the Christ of God, begotten of him before all ages, the only-begotten Son, God the Word, whom they did not recognize through unbelief, neither through his works nor through the prophecies written about him.

Notes and citation

Summary: Israel failed to recognize Jesus as the eternally begotten Son and Word.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): $x αὐτοῦ → ἐξ αὐτοῦ; δὲ ἀπιστίαν → δι᾽ ἀπιστίαν.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.16.2 (Funk 1:283–285; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-16-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.16.3Funk 1:285

ὅτι γὰρ ἐκ παρθένου γενήσεται, ἀνεγίνωσκον τὸ Ἰδοὺ ἡ παρθένος ἐν γαστρὶ λήψεται καὶ τέξεται υἱόν, καὶ καλέσουσι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἐμμανουήλ· ὅτι παιδίον ἐγεννήθη, υἱὸς καὶ ἐδόθη, οὗ ἡ ἀρχὴ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὦμου αὐτοῦ, καὶ καλεῖται τὸ ὀνομα αὐτοῦ μεγάλης βουλῆς ἄγγελος, θαυμαστὸς σύμβουλος, θεὸς ἰσχυρὸς ἐξουσιαστής, ἄρχων εἰρήνης, πατὴρ τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος.

hoti gar ek parthenou genēsetai, aneginōskon to Idou hē parthenos en gastri lēpsetai kai texetai huion, kai kalesousi to onoma autou Emmanouēl; hoti paidion egennēthē, huios kai edothē, hou hē archē epi tou ōmou autou, kai kaleitai to onoma autou megalēs boulēs angelos, thaumastos symboulos, theos ischyros exousiastēs, archōn eirēnēs, patēr tou mellontos aiōnos.

For that he would be born of a virgin they read: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive in the womb and bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel”; and that “a child was born, a son also was given, whose rule is upon his shoulder, and his name is called Angel of great counsel, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Ruler, Prince of peace, Father of the age to come.”

Isa 7:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 9:6 (9:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The prophecies of the virgin birth and of the divine child are quoted.

Quotations: Isa 7:14; 9:6 (9:5 LXX), combining the LXX title with the Hebrew titles.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ix → ἐκ ; ido? → Ἰδοὺ; EuuavovrA: → Ἐμμανουήλ·; παιόίον → παιδίον; ς“. → ς..

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.16.3 (Funk 1:285; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-16-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.16.4Funk 1:285

ὅτι δὲ διὰ κακίαν ὑπερβάλλουσαν ἀπειθήσουσιν αὐτῷ, λέγει Κύριε, τίς ἐπίστευσεν τῇ ἀκοῇ ἡμῶν, καὶ ὃ βραχίων κυρίου τίνι ἀπεκαλύφθη; καὶ ἑξῆς· Ἀκοῇ ἀκούσετε καὶ οὐ μὴ συνῆτε, καὶ βλέποντες βλέψετε καὶ οὐ μὴ ἴδητε ἐπαχύνθη γὰρ ἡ καρδία τοῦ λαοῦ τούτου

hoti de dia kakian hyperballousan apeithēsousin autǭ, legei Kyrie, tis episteusen tę̄ akoę̄ hēmōn, kai ho brachiōn kyriou tini apekalyphthē? kai hexēs; Akoę̄ akousete kai ou mē synēte, kai blepontes blepsete kai ou mē idēte epachynthē gar hē kardia tou laou toutou

And that because of their surpassing wickedness they would disobey him, he says: “Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” and further, “Hearing you will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; for the heart of this people has grown dull.”

Isa 53:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 6:9–10 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Isaiah foretold Israel's disobedience.

Quotations: Isa 53:1; 6:9–10.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ὁὲ → δὲ ; ι,, → ι ; η“; → η;; " »Axoij → · Ἀκοῇ; 7) καρδία → ἡ καρδία; ου“ → ου.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.16.4 (Funk 1:285; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-16-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.16.5Funk 1:285

διὸ ἤρθη ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν ἡ γνῶσις, ὅτι ἰδόντες παρεῖδον καὶ ἀκούσαντες οὐχ ἤκουσαν, ὑμῖν δὲ τοῖς ἐξ ἐθνῶν ἐδόθη ἡ βασιλεία, ὅτι μὴ γινώσκοντες θεὸν διὰ τοῦ κηρύγματος πιστεύσαντες, ἔγνωτε αὐτόν, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐγνώσθητε ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ διὰ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ σωτῆρος καὶ λυτρωτοῦ τῶν ἐλπιζόντων ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν.

dio ērthē ap᾽ autōn hē gnōsis, hoti idontes pareidon kai akousantes ouch ēkousan, hymin de tois ex ethnōn edothē hē basileia, hoti mē ginōskontes theon dia tou kērygmatos pisteusantes, egnōte auton, mallon de egnōsthēte hyp᾽ autou dia Iēsou tou sōtēros kai lytrōtou tōn elpizontōn ep᾿ auton.

Therefore knowledge was taken from them, because seeing they overlooked and hearing they did not hear; but to you of the Gentiles the kingdom was given, because, though you did not know God, believing through the preaching you came to know him, or rather were known by him, through Jesus the Savior and Redeemer of those who hope in him.

Matt 21:43 (echo, medium confidence) · Gal 4:9 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Knowledge was taken from Israel and the kingdom given to the believing Gentiles.

Matt 21:43; Gal 4:9.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: κ read as χ): Ób → δὲ ; γινώσχοντες → γινώσκοντες; ῦ“ → ῦ .

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.16.5 (Funk 1:285; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-16-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.16.6Funk 1:285

μεταβάντες γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς προτέρας ματαιοπόνου συνηθείας καὶ τῶν ἀψύχων εἰδώλων ὑπεριδόντες καὶ τῶν ἐν σκότει δαιμόνων καταφρονήσαντες, προσδραμόντες τε, τῷ φωτὶ τῷ ἀληθινῷ καὶ ἐπιγνόντες δι᾽ αὐτοῦ, τὸν ἕνα καὶ μόνον ἀληθινὸν θεὸν καὶ πατέρα, κληρονόμοι τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἀνεφάνητε.

metabantes gar apo tēs proteras mataioponou synētheias kai tōn apsychōn eidōlōn hyperidontes kai tōn en skotei daimonōn kataphronēsantes, prosdramontes te, tǭ phōti tǭ alēthinǭ kai epignontes di᾽ autou, ton hena kai monon alēthinon theon kai patera, klēronomoi tēs autou basileias anephanēte.

For having passed over from your former custom of fruitless toil, and disdaining lifeless idols and despising the demons who dwell in darkness, you ran to the true light, and having “come to know” through him “the one and only true God” and Father, you have been shown to be heirs of his kingdom.

John 17:3 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The Gentiles turned from idols to the true light and became heirs of God's kingdom.

John 17:3.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): φοτὶ τῷ ἀληθιενοῦ xal ,, → φωτὶ τῷ ἀληθινῷ καὶ ; ς“ → ς ; ,τ → τ; ν“ → ν .

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.16.6 (Funk 1:285; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-16-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.16.7Funk 1:285

Βαπτισθέντες γὰρ εἰς τὸν τοῦ κυρίου θάνατον καὶ εἰς τὴν ἀνάστασιν αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἀρτιγενῆ βρέφη ἀνενέργητοι πρὸς πᾶσαν ἁμαρτίαν ὀφείλετε εἶναι· οὐ γάρ, ἐστὲ ἑαυτῶν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ ἀγοράσαντος ὑμᾶς τῷ ἑαυτοῦ αἵματι.

Baptisthentes gar eis ton tou kyriou thanaton kai eis tēn anastasin autou, hōs artigenē brephē anenergētoi pros pasan hamartian opheilete einai; ou gar, este heautōn, alla tou agorasantos hymas tǭ heautou haimati.

For having been “baptized into the Lord's death” and into his resurrection, “as newborn infants” you ought to be inactive toward every sin; “for you are not your own, but his who bought you” with his own blood.

Rom 6:3 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Pet 2:2 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:19–20 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The baptized, having died and risen with Christ, must be free of sin, for they belong to him.

Rom 6:3–5; 1 Pet 2:2; 1 Cor 6:19–20.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ,,(Ἐαπτισθέντες““ yàg ,, → Βαπτισθέντες γὰρ ; ν“ → ν ; ,,ὧὡς → ὡς; η“ → η ; " ,,οὐ“ → · οὐ; ς“ → ς .

Topics: Baptism, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.16.7 (Funk 1:285; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-16-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.16.8Funk 1:285

περὶ γὰρ τοῦ ποτε Ἰσραὴλ εἶπεν ὁ κύριος διὰ τὴν ἀπιστίαν αὐτῶν, ὅτι, ἀρθήσεται ἀπ αὐτῶν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ δοθήσεται ἔθνει ποιοῦντι τοὺς καρποὺς αὐτῆς, δηλαδὴ ὅτι ὑμῖν τοῖς ποτε οὖσιν ἀπεξενωμένοις αὐτοῦ μακρὰν δοὺς τὴν βασιλείαν, ἐκδέχεται τοὺς τῆς εὐγνωμοσύνης καρπούς.

peri gar tou pote Israēl eipen ho kyrios dia tēn apistian autōn, hoti, arthēsetai ap autōn hē basileia tou theou kai dothēsetai ethnei poiounti tous karpous autēs, dēladē hoti hymin tois pote ousin apexenōmenois autou makran dous tēn basileian, ekdechetai tous tēs eugnōmosynēs karpous.

For concerning the former Israel the Lord said, because of their unbelief, that “the kingdom of God will be taken from them and given to a nation producing its fruits”; that is to say, having given the kingdom to you, who were once far estranged from him, he awaits the fruits of your gratitude.

Matt 21:43 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The kingdom taken from unbelieving Israel is given to the Gentiles, who must bear its fruits.

Quotation: Matt 21:43.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: κ read as χ): δοθησεται → δοθήσεται; ς", → ς,; ἐχδέχεται → ἐκδέχεται.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.16.8 (Funk 1:285; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-16-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.16.9Funk 1:285–287

ὑμεῖς γάρ ἐστε οἵ ποτε ἀποσταλέντες εἰς τὸν ἀμπελῶνα καὶ μὴ ὑπακούσαντες, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ οἱ ὑπακούσαντες ἀλλὰ ὑμεῖς μὲν μεταμεληθέντες ἐπὶ τῇ ἀντιλογίᾳ ἐργάζεσθε ἐν αὐτῷ νῦν, οἱ δὲ δυσχεράναντες ἐπὶ ταῖς ἑαυτῶν συνθήκαις οὐ μόνον ἀνέργαστον κατέλειψαν τὸν ἀμπελῶνα, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἐπιτρόπους τοῦ κυρίου τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος ἀπέκτειναν, ὃν μὲν λίθοις, ὃν δὲ ξίφει, καὶ τὸν μὲν ἔπρισαν, τὸν δὲ ἔνδον ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἀνεῖλον μεταξὺ τοῦ ναοῦ καὶ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου ὕστερον δὲ καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν κληρονόμον ἔξω τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος ἐκβαλόντες ἀπέκτειναν. καὶ παρ᾽ αὐτοῖς ὡς λίθος ἀχρεῖος ἀπεβλήθη, παρ᾽ ὑμῶν δὲ ὡς ἀκρογωνιαῖος ἐδέχθη· διὸ λέγει περὶ ὑμῶν· Λαός, ὃν οὐκ ἔγνων, ἐδούλευσέν μοι, εἰς ἀκοὴν ὠτίου ὑπήκουσέν μου.

hymeis gar este hoi pote apostalentes eis ton ampelōna kai mē hypakousantes, ekeinoi de hoi hypakousantes alla hymeis men metamelēthentes epi tę̄ antilogią ergazesthe en autǭ nyn, hoi de dyscheranantes epi tais heautōn synthēkais ou monon anergaston kateleipsan ton ampelōna, alla kai tous epitropous tou kyriou tou ampelōnos apekteinan, hon men lithois, hon de xiphei, kai ton men eprisan, ton de endon en tǭ hierǭ aneilon metaxy tou naou kai tou thysiastēriou hysteron de kai auton ton klēronomon exō tou ampelōnos ekbalontes apekteinan. kai par᾽ autois hōs lithos achreios apeblēthē, par᾽ hymōn de hōs akrogōniaios edechthē; dio legei peri hymōn; Laos, hon ouk egnōn, edouleusen moi, eis akoēn ōtiou hypēkousen mou.

For you are the ones who were once sent into the vineyard and did not obey, and they are the ones who obeyed; but you, having repented of your refusal, now work in it, while they, chafing at their own covenants, not only left the vineyard uncultivated but also killed the stewards of the Lord of the vineyard, one with stones, another with the sword; one they sawed in two, another they slew inside the temple, “between the sanctuary and the altar”; and at last they even “cast the heir himself out of the vineyard and killed him.” [10] And by them he was rejected as a useless stone, but by you he was received as the cornerstone. Therefore he says concerning you: “A people whom I did not know served me; at the hearing of the ear it obeyed me.”

Matt 21:28–31 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 21:35 (allusion, high confidence) · Heb 11:37 (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 23:35 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 21:39 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 118:22 (117:22 LXX) (allusion, high confidence) · Eph 2:20 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 18:43–44 (17:44-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The Gentiles are the son who first refused and then worked in the vineyard; Israel killed the prophets and the heir.

The section number 10 was lost in the OCR; “[10]” marks where it begins.
The parables of the two sons and of the tenants (Matt 21:28–42) are applied to Gentiles and Jews; the polemic is the work's own. Heb 11:37; Matt 23:35; Ps 118:22 (117:22 LXX); Eph 2:20; quotation: Ps 18:43–44 (17:44–45 LXX).

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.16.9 (Funk 1:285–287; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-16-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 5, chapter 17

5.17.1Funk 1:287

Δεῖ οὖν ὑμᾶς, ἀδελφοί, τοὺς τῷ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐξηγορασμένους τιμίῳ αἵματι, τὰς ἡμέρας τοῦ πάσχα ἀκριβῶς ποιεῖσθαι μετὰ πάσης ἐπιμελείας μετὰ τροπὴν ἰσημερινήν, ὅπως μὴ δὶς τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ἑνὸς παθήματος μνείαν ποιῆσθε, ἀλλὰ ἅπαξ τοῦ ἔτους τοῦ ἅπαξ ἀποθανόντος, μηκέτι παρατηρούμενοι μετὰ Ἰουδαίων ἑορτάζειν.

Dei oun hymas, adelphoi, tous tǭ tou Christou exēgorasmenous timiǭ haimati, tas hēmeras tou pascha akribōs poieisthai meta pasēs epimeleias meta tropēn isēmerinēn, hopōs mē dis tou eniautou henos pathēmatos mneian poiēsthe, alla hapax tou etous tou hapax apothanontos, mēketi paratēroumenoi meta Ioudaiōn heortazein.

You must, then, brothers, who have been redeemed by the precious blood of Christ, keep the days of the Pascha exactly, with all care, after the equinox, so that you do not make memorial of the one passion twice in a year, but once a year of him who died once, no longer taking care to keep the feast with the Jews.

1 Pet 1:19 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Christians must keep Easter once a year after the equinox and no longer with the Jews.

1 Pet 1:19.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.17.1 (Funk 1:287; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-17-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.17.2Funk 1:287–289

οὐδεμία γὰρ κοινωνία ἡμῖν νῦν πρὸς αὐτούς· πεπλάνηνται γὰρ καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν ψῆφον, ἣν νομίζουσιν ἐπιτελεῖν, ὅπως πανταχόθεν ὦσιν πεπλανημένοι καὶ τῆς ἀληθείας ἀπεσχοινισμένοι. ὑμεῖς δὲ φυλάσσεσθε ἀκριβῶς τὴν ἰσημέριον τροπὴν τῆς ἐαρινῆς ὥρας, ἥτις γίνεται εἰκάδι δευτέρᾳ τοῦ δωδεκάτου μηνός, ὃς ἐστι Δύστρος· ἐπιτηροῦντες ἕως εἰκάδος πρώτης σελήνης, ὅπως μὴ ἐν ἑτέρᾳ ἑβδομάδι ἐμπέσοι ἡ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτη τῆς σελήνης, καὶ πλάνης γενομένης ἀγνοίᾳ δὶς τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ἐπιτελέσωμεν τὸ πάσχα, ἢ ἐν ἄλλῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἑορτάσωμεν τὴν τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀναστάσιμον ἡμέραν, ἀλλ ἐν κυριακῇ μόνῃ.

oudemia gar koinōnia hēmin nyn pros autous; peplanēntai gar kai autēn tēn psēphon, hēn nomizousin epitelein, hopōs pantachothen ōsin peplanēmenoi kai tēs alētheias apeschoinismenoi. hymeis de phylassesthe akribōs tēn isēmerion tropēn tēs earinēs hōras, hētis ginetai eikadi deuterą tou dōdekatou mēnos, hos esti Dystros; epitērountes heōs eikados prōtēs selēnēs, hopōs mē en heterą hebdomadi empesoi hē tessareskaidekatē tēs selēnēs, kai planēs genomenēs agnoią dis tou eniautou epitelesōmen to pascha, ē en allę̄ hēmerą heortasōmen tēn tou kyriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou anastasimon hēmeran, all en kyriakę̄ monę̄.

For we now have no fellowship with them; for they have gone astray even in the very reckoning which they think they observe, so that they are astray on every side and cut off from the truth. [3] But you, keep exactly the equinox of the spring season, which falls on the twenty-second of the twelfth month, which is Dystrus, watching until the twenty-first of the moon, so that the fourteenth of the moon may not fall in another week, and that we may not, through an error made in ignorance, celebrate the Pascha twice in the year, or celebrate on another day the day of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, but on the Lord's day only.

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Summary: Easter is to be reckoned from the spring equinox and kept only on a Sunday.

The section number 3 was lost in the OCR (read as “43.”); “[3]” marks where it begins. Dystrus is roughly March. The polemic on the Jewish reckoning is the work's own.

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Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.17.2 (Funk 1:287–289; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-17-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 5, chapter 18

5.18.1Funk 1:289

Ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις οὖν τοῦ πάσχα νηστεύετε, ἀρχόμενοι ἀπὸ δευτέρας μέχρι τῆς παρασκευῆς καὶ σαββάτου, ἕξ ἡμέρας, μόνῳ χρώμενοι ἄρτῳ καὶ ἁλὶ καὶ λαχάνοις καὶ ποτῷ ὕδατι, οἴνου δὲ καὶ κρεῶν ἀπέχεσθε ἐν ταύταις᾽ ἡμέραι γάρ εἰσι πένθους, ἀλλ οὐχ ἑορτῆς.

En tais hēmerais oun tou pascha nēsteuete, archomenoi apo deuteras mechri tēs paraskeuēs kai sabbatou, hex hēmeras, monǭ chrōmenoi artǭ kai hali kai lachanois kai potǭ hydati, oinou de kai kreōn apechesthe en tautais᾽ hēmerai gar eisi penthous, all ouch heortēs.

In the days of the Pascha, then, fast, beginning from Monday until Friday and Saturday, six days, using only bread and salt and vegetables, and water to drink; but abstain from wine and meat during these days, for they are days of mourning, not of festival.

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Summary: During Holy Week the faithful fast on bread, salt, vegetables and water.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ὁὲ χαὶ χρεῶν → δὲ καὶ κρεῶν; εἶσι → εἰσι.

Topics: Fasting

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.18.1 (Funk 1:289; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-18-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.18.2Funk 1:289

τὴν μέντοι παρασκευὴν καὶ τὸ σάββατον ὁλόκληρον νηστεύσατε, οἷς δύναμις πρόσεστιν τοιαύτη, μηδενὸς γευόμενοι μέχρις ἀλεκτοροφωνίας νυκτός· εἰ δέ τις ἀδυνατεῖ τὰς δύο συνάπτειν ὁμοῦ, φυλασσέσθω κἂν τὸ σάββατον. λέγει γάρ που αὐτὸς ὃ κύριος περὶ ἑαυτοῦ φάσκων Ὅταν ἀπαρθῇ ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν ὃ νυμφίος, νηστεύσουσιν ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις.

tēn mentoi paraskeuēn kai to sabbaton holoklēron nēsteusate, hois dynamis prosestin toiautē, mēdenos geuomenoi mechris alektorophōnias nyktos; ei de tis adynatei tas dyo synaptein homou, phylassesthō kan to sabbaton. legei gar pou autos ho kyrios peri heautou phaskōn Hotan aparthę̄ ap᾽ autōn ho nymphios, nēsteusousin en ekeinais tais hēmerais.

But on Friday and Saturday fast entirely, those of you who have such strength, tasting nothing until the cockcrow of the night; and if anyone cannot join the two days together, let him at least keep the Saturday. For the Lord himself says somewhere, speaking of himself: “When the bridegroom is taken away from them, they will fast in those days.”

Luke 5:35 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Those who can should fast completely on Friday and Saturday, or at least on Saturday.

Quotation: Luke 5:35.

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Topics: Fasting

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.18.2 (Funk 1:289; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-18-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 5, chapter 19

5.19.1Funk 1:289–291

Ἐν ταύταις οὖν ἤρθη ἀφ᾽ ἡμῶν ὑπὸ τῶν ψευδωνύμων Ἰουδαίων καὶ σταυρῷ προσεπάγη καὶ μετὰ ἀνόμων ἐλογίσθη

En tautais oun ērthē aph᾽ hēmōn hypo tōn pseudōnymōn Ioudaiōn kai staurǭ prosepagē kai meta anomōn elogisthē

For in these days he was taken from us by the falsely named Jews and fastened to the cross, “and was reckoned with the lawless.”

Isa 53:12 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: In these days Christ was taken and crucified.

Quotation: Isa 53:12.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,,(καὶ → καὶ; θη“ → θη.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.19.1 (Funk 1:289–291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-19-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.19.2Funk 1:291

διὸ παραινοῦμεν καὶ ὑμῖν νηστεύειν ταύτας, ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐνηστεύσαμεν ἐν τῷ ληφθῆναι αὐτὸν ἀφ᾽ ἡμῶν, ἄχρις ἑσπέρας· ἐν δὲ ταῖς λοιπαῖς ταῖς πρὸ τῆς παρασκευῆς ἐνάτην ὥραν ἢ ἑσπέραν ἕκαστος ἐσθιέτω, ἢ ὅπως ἄν τις δύνηται, ἀπὸ δὲ ἑσπέρας πέμπτης μέχρις ἀλεκτοροφωνίας ἀπονηστιζόμενοι.

dio parainoumen kai hymin nēsteuein tautas, hōs kai hēmeis enēsteusamen en tǭ lēphthēnai auton aph᾽ hēmōn, achris hesperas; en de tais loipais tais pro tēs paraskeuēs enatēn hōran ē hesperan hekastos esthietō, ē hopōs an tis dynētai, apo de hesperas pemptēs mechris alektorophōnias aponēstizomenoi.

Therefore we exhort you too to fast these days, as we also fasted until evening when he was taken from us; but on the other days before Friday let each eat at the ninth hour or in the evening, or as each is able; but from the evening of Thursday until cockcrow, breaking your fast

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Summary: The days before Friday are kept with fasting until the ninth hour or evening, and the full fast runs from Thursday evening.

The sentence runs on into the next ref: the fast lasts from Thursday evening until cockcrow on the Lord's day, and is then broken.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ς" → ς· ; ἕχαστος → ἕκαστος.

Topics: Fasting

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.19.2 (Funk 1:291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-19-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.19.4Funk 1:291

ἐπιφωσκούσης μιᾶς σαββάτων, ἥτις ἐστὶ κυριακή, ἀπὸ ἑσπέρας ἕως ἀλεκτοροφωνίας ἀγρυπνοῦντες καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ συναθροιζόμενοι γρηγορεῖτε, προσευχόμενοι καὶ δεόμενοι τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν τῇ διανυκτερεύσει ὑμῶν, ἀναγινώσκοντες τὸν Νόμον, τοὺς Προφήτας, τοὺς Ψαλμοὺς μέχρις ἀλεκτρυόνων κραυγῆς· καὶ βαπτίσαντες ὑμῶν τοὺς κατηχουμένους καὶ ἀναγνόντες τὸ Εὐαγγέλιον ἐν φόβῳ καὶ ἐν τρόμῳ καὶ προσλαλήσαντες τῷ λαῷ τὰ πρὸς σωτηρίαν, παύσασθε τοῦ πένθους ὑμῶν καὶ δεήθητε τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπιστραφῆναι τὸν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ λαβεῖν αὐτὸν τόπον μετανοίας καὶ τῆς ἀσεβείας ἄφεσιν· ὅτι ὃ μὲν ἀλλόφυλος κριτὴς νιψάμενος τὰς χεῖρας εἶπεν· Αθῶός εἶμι ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ δικαίου τούτου, ὑμεῖς ὄψεσθε· ὃ δὲ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπεβόησεν. Τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ ἐφ᾽ ἡμᾶς καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ τέκνα ἡμῶν, καὶ Πιλάτου εἰπόντος· Τὸν βασιλέα ὑμῶν σταυρώσω; αὐτοὶ ἐπεβόων· Οὐκ ἔχομεν βασιλέα εἰ μὴ καίσαρα· σταύρωσον, σταύρωσον αὐτόν: πᾶς γὰρ ὁ ποιῶν ἑαυτὸν βασιλέα ἀντιλέγει τῷ καίσαρι, καὶ ἐὰν τοῦτον ἀπολύσῃς, οὐκ εἶ φίλος τοῦ καίσαρος.

epiphōskousēs mias sabbatōn, hētis esti kyriakē, apo hesperas heōs alektorophōnias agrypnountes kai epi to auto en tę̄ ekklēsią synathroizomenoi grēgoreite, proseuchomenoi kai deomenoi tou theou en tę̄ dianyktereusei hymōn, anaginōskontes ton Nomon, tous Prophētas, tous Psalmous mechris alektryonōn kraugēs; kai baptisantes hymōn tous katēchoumenous kai anagnontes to Euangelion en phobǭ kai en tromǭ kai proslalēsantes tǭ laǭ ta pros sōtērian, pausasthe tou penthous hymōn kai deēthēte tou theou epistraphēnai ton Israēl kai labein auton topon metanoias kai tēs asebeias aphesin; hoti ho men allophylos kritēs nipsamenos tas cheiras eipen; Athōos eimi apo tou haimatos tou dikaiou toutou, hymeis opsesthe; ho de Israēl epeboēsen. To haima autou eph᾽ hēmas kai epi ta tekna hēmōn, kai Pilatou eipontos; Ton basilea hymōn staurōsō? autoi epeboōn; Ouk echomen basilea ei mē kaisara; staurōson, staurōson auton: pas gar ho poiōn heauton basilea antilegei tǭ kaisari, kai ean touton apolysę̄s, ouk ei philos tou kaisaros.

when the first day of the week, which is the Lord's day, is dawning. From evening until cockcrow keep vigil, assembling together in the church; watch, praying and beseeching God in your night-long vigil, reading the Law, the Prophets, the Psalms until the crowing of the cocks; and having baptized your catechumens, and read the Gospel with fear and trembling, and spoken to the people what pertains to salvation, cease from your mourning, and beseech God that Israel may be converted and receive a place of repentance and the forgiveness of its impiety. [4] For the foreign judge washed his hands and said, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man; see to it yourselves”; but Israel cried out, “His blood be on us and on our children”; and when Pilate said, “Shall I crucify your king?” they cried out, “We have no king but Caesar; crucify him, crucify him; for everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar, and if you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend.”

Matt 27:24–25 (quotation, high confidence) · John 19:15 (quotation, high confidence) · John 19:12 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The Easter vigil is kept with readings, baptism, and prayer for the conversion of Israel.

The OCR numbering is unsettled here: this ref begins with the end of the sentence of the preceding ref, and “[4]” marks a section numeral printed inside it.
Quotations: Matt 27:24–25; John 19:15, 12.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: section number removed; OCR: κ read as χ): ἐπιφωσκοῦσης → ἐπιφωσκούσης; ἀλεχτοροφωνίας → ἀλεκτοροφωνίας; διανυχτερεύσει → διανυκτερεύσει; ῆς" κ → ῆς· κ; " 4. ὅτι → · ὅτι; ν" ,,Α → ν· Α; ὄψεσθε“., → ὄψεσθε·; ,, → ; ip ἡμᾶς → ἐφ᾽ ἡμᾶς; ν“, → ν,; ος" Τ → ος· Τ; ν" ,,Ο → ν· Ο; α" → α· ; £i φίλος → εἶ φίλος; ς“. → ς..

Topics: Baptism, Prayer, Fasting

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.19.4 (Funk 1:291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-19-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.19.5Funk 1:291–293

καὶ Πιλᾶτος ὃ ἡγεμὼν καὶ Ἡρώδης ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐχέλευσεν αὐτὸν σταυρωθῆναι, καὶ πληροῦται τὸ φάσκον λόγιον· Ἱνατί ἐφρύαξαν ἔθνη καὶ λαοὶ ἐμελέτησαν κενά; παρέστησαν οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες συνήχθησαν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου καὶ κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀπέῤῥιψαν τὸν ἀγαπητὸν ὡσεὶ νεκρὸν ἐβδελυγμένον

kai Pilatos ho hēgemōn kai Hērōdēs ho basileus echeleusen auton staurōthēnai, kai plēroutai to phaskon logion; Hinati ephryaxan ethnē kai laoi emeletēsan kena? parestēsan hoi basileis tēs gēs kai hoi archontes synēchthēsan epi to auto kata tou kyriou kai kata tou Christou autou, kai aperrhipsan ton agapēton hōsei nekron ebdelygmenon

And Pilate the governor and Herod the king ordered him to be crucified, and the oracle is fulfilled which says: “Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise vain things? The kings of the earth stood by, and the rulers gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ”; and “they cast away” the beloved “like an abominable corpse.”

Ps 2:1–2 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 14:19 (quotation, medium confidence)

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Summary: The crucifixion fulfilled Psalm 2.

Quotations: Ps 2:1–2; Isa 14:19.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: κ read as χ): φάσχον → φάσκον; " ,Ivati → · Ἱνατί; ῦ“, → ῦ,; »ἀ → ἀ; ν““ → ν ; ,,ὡ → ὡ; νεχρὸν → νεκρὸν; ον““ → ον.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.19.5 (Funk 1:291–293; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-19-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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καὶ αὐτοῦ σταυρωθέντος τῇ παρασκευῇ καὶ ἀναστάντος ἐπιφωσκούσης κυριακῆς, ἐπληρώθη ἡ γραφὴ ἡ λέγουσα· Ἀνάστα, ὁ θεός, κρῖνον τὴν γῆν, ὅτι σὺ κατακληρονομήσεις ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν καὶ πάλιν᾽, Νῦν ἀναστήσομαι, λέγει κύριος, θήσομαι ἐν σωτηρίῳ καὶ παρρησιάσομαι ἐν αὐτῷ, καὶ Σὺ δέ, κύριε, ἐλέησόν μὲ καὶ ἀνάστησόν με, καὶ ἀνταποδώσω αὐτοῖς.

kai autou staurōthentos tę̄ paraskeuę̄ kai anastantos epiphōskousēs kyriakēs, eplērōthē hē graphē hē legousa; Anasta, ho theos, krinon tēn gēn, hoti sy kataklēronomēseis en pasin tois ethnesin kai palin᾽, Nyn anastēsomai, legei kyrios, thēsomai en sōtēriǭ kai parrēsiasomai en autǭ, kai Sy de, kyrie, eleēson me kai anastēson me, kai antapodōsō autois.

And when he was crucified on Friday and rose as the Lord's day was dawning, the Scripture was fulfilled which says: “Arise, O God, judge the earth, for you will inherit among all the nations,” and again, “Now I will arise, says the Lord; I will set him in safety; I will speak boldly in it,” and “But you, O Lord, have mercy on me and raise me up, and I will repay them.”

Ps 82:8 (81:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 12:5 (11:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 41:10 (40:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Christ's resurrection on the Lord's day fulfilled the Psalms.

Quotations: Ps 82:8 (81:8 LXX); 12:5 (11:6 LXX); 41:10 (40:11 LXX).

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): 7») γραφὴ ἡ Aéyovoa: ,, → ἡ γραφὴ ἡ λέγουσα· ; “,, → ; “, xal (Σὺ → , καὶ Σὺ; ς“. → ς..

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.19.6 (Funk 1:293; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-19-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.19.7Funk 1:293

διὰ τοῦτο οὖν καὶ ὑμεῖς, ἀναστάντος τοῦ κυρίου, προσενέγκατε τὴν θυσίαν ὑμῶν, περὶ ἧς ὑμῖν διετάξατο διʼ ἡμῶν λέγων· Τοῦτο ποιεῖτε εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν ἀνάμνησιν, καὶ λοιπὸν ἀπονηστεύετε, εὐφραινόμενοι καὶ ἑορτάζοντες, ὅτε ἀρραβὼν τῆς ἀναστάσεως ὑμῶν Ἰησοῦς ὃ Χριστὸς ἐγήγερται ἐκ νεκρῶν, καὶ τοῦτο ὑμῖν ἔστω νόμιμον αἰώνιον ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος, μέχρις ἂν ἔλθῃ ὃ κύριος.

dia touto oun kai hymeis, anastantos tou kyriou, prosenenkate tēn thysian hymōn, peri hēs hymin dietaxato diʼ hēmōn legōn; Touto poieite eis tēn emēn anamnēsin, kai loipon aponēsteuete, euphrainomenoi kai heortazontes, hote arrabōn tēs anastaseōs hymōn Iēsous ho Christos egēgertai ek nekrōn, kai touto hymin estō nomimon aiōnion heōs tēs synteleias tou aiōnos, mechris an elthę̄ ho kyrios.

Therefore you too, now that the Lord is risen, offer your sacrifice, concerning which he gave you command through us, saying, “Do this for my remembrance”; and thereafter break your fast, rejoicing and keeping festival, because Jesus the Christ, the pledge of your resurrection, has been raised from the dead; “and let this be to you a perpetual ordinance until the consummation of the age, until the Lord comes.”

Luke 22:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 12:14 (allusion, medium confidence) · 1 Cor 11:26 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: At the resurrection the faithful offer the Eucharist and end their fast with rejoicing.

Luke 22:19; Exod 12:14; 1 Cor 11:26.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): Ovoiav → θυσίαν; " ,,ἸΤοῦτο → · Τοῦτο; ν“, → ν,; ,,κκαὶ → καὶ; ς“. → ς..

Topics: Eucharist, Fasting

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.19.7 (Funk 1:293; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-19-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.19.8Funk 1:293

Ἰουδαίοις γὰρ ὃ κύριος ἔτι τέθνηκεν, Χριστιανοῖς δὲ ἐγήγερται, τοῖς μὲν δι᾽ ἀπιστίαν, τοῖς δὲ διὰ πληροφορίαν, ὅτι ἡ εἰς αὐτὸν ἐλπὶς ἀθάνατος ζωὴ καὶ αἰώνιος.

Ioudaiois gar ho kyrios eti tethnēken, Christianois de egēgertai, tois men di᾽ apistian, tois de dia plērophorian, hoti hē eis auton elpis athanatos zōē kai aiōnios.

For to the Jews the Lord is still dead, but to Christians he is risen: to the one through unbelief, to the other through full assurance; for the hope in him is immortal and eternal life.

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Summary: For unbelievers Christ remains dead, for believers he is risen.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): δὲ ἀπιστίαν → δι᾽ ἀπιστίαν.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.19.8 (Funk 1:293; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-19-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 5, chapter 20

5.20.1Funk 1:293

Μετὰ δὲ ὀκτὼ ἡμέρας ἔστω ὑμῖν πάλιν ἑορτὴ τιμία αὐτὴ ἡ ὀγδόη, ἐν ᾗ δυσπιστοῦντα ἐμὲ Θωμᾶν ἐπὶ τῇ ἀναστάσει ἐπληροφόρησεν, δείξας μοι τοὺς τύπους τῶν ἥλων καὶ τῆς λόγχης ἐν τῇ πλευρᾷ τὴν τρῶσιν.

Meta de oktō hēmeras estō hymin palin heortē timia autē hē ogdoē, en hę̄ dyspistounta eme Thōman epi tę̄ anastasei eplērophorēsen, deixas moi tous typous tōn hēlōn kai tēs lonchēs en tę̄ pleurą tēn trōsin.

And after eight days let there again be an honored feast for you, the eighth day itself, on which he gave full assurance to me, Thomas, who was doubtful about the resurrection, showing me the prints of the nails and the wound made by the spear in his side.

John 20:26–27 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: The eighth day after Easter is a feast recalling Christ's appearance to Thomas.

Thomas speaks. John 20:26–27.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip): jj → ᾗ .

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.1 (Funk 1:293; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.2Funk 1:293–295

καὶ πάλιν ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης κυριακῆς ἀριθμήσαντες τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρας, ἀπὸ κυριακῆς μέχρι πέμπτης ἑορτάσατε τὴν ἑορτὴν τῆς ἀναλήψεως τοῦ κυρίου, καθ᾽ ἣν πληρώσας πᾶσαν οἰκονομίαν καὶ διάταξιν ἀνῆλθεν πρὸς τὸν ἀποστείλαντα αὐτὸν θεὸν καὶ πατέρα, καθίσας ἐκ δεξιῶν τῆς δυνάμεως καὶ περιμένων, ἕως ἂν τεθῶσιν οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτοῦ ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ. ὃς καὶ ἐλεύσεται ἐπὶ συντελείᾳ τοῦ αἰῶνος μετὰ δυνάμεως καὶ δόξης πολλῆς, κρῖναι ζῶντας καὶ νεκροὺς καὶ ἀποδοῦναι ἑχάστῳ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ καὶ τότε ὄψονται τὸν ἀγαπητὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ, ὃν ἐξεκέντησαν, καὶ ἐπιγνόντες αὐτὸν, κόψονται ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτοῖς φυλὴ κατὰ φυλὴν, καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν κατ᾽ ἰδίαν.

kai palin apo tēs prōtēs kyriakēs arithmēsantes tessarakonta hēmeras, apo kyriakēs mechri pemptēs heortasate tēn heortēn tēs analēpseōs tou kyriou, kath᾽ hēn plērōsas pasan oikonomian kai diataxin anēlthen pros ton aposteilanta auton theon kai patera, kathisas ek dexiōn tēs dynameōs kai perimenōn, heōs an tethōsin hoi echthroi autou hypo tous podas autou. hos kai eleusetai epi synteleią tou aiōnos meta dynameōs kai doxēs pollēs, krinai zōntas kai nekrous kai apodounai hechastǭ kata ta erga autou kai tote opsontai ton agapēton huion tou theou, hon exekentēsan, kai epignontes auton, kopsontai eph᾽ heautois phylē kata phylēn, kai hai gynaikes autōn kat᾽ idian.

And again, counting forty days from the first Lord's day, from the Lord's day to the Thursday, celebrate the feast of the ascension of the Lord, on which, having fulfilled the whole dispensation and ordinance, he went up to God the Father who sent him, sitting at the right hand of the Power and waiting until his enemies are placed under his feet; who will also come at the consummation of the age with power and great glory, to judge the living and the dead and “to render to each according to his works”; and then “they will see” the beloved Son of God, “whom they pierced,” and recognizing him “they will mourn over themselves, tribe by tribe, and their wives by themselves.”

Acts 1:3 (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 26:64 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 110:1 (109:1 LXX) (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 24:30 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 16:27 (quotation, high confidence) · Zech 12:10–12 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 1:7 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: The Ascension is kept on the fortieth day; Christ sits at the Father's right hand until he comes to judge.

Acts 1:3, 9; Ps 110:1 (109:1 LXX); Matt 24:30; 16:27; Zech 12:10–12; Rev 1:7.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): xaO" → καθ᾽; olxovouiav → οἰκονομίαν; δυνάμεῶς → δυνάμεως; καὶ, , ἀποδοῦναι → καὶ ἀποδοῦναι; ῦ“ → ῦ ; τότε, → τότε; ι“ → ι ; ,,0v → ὃν; ν“, → ν,; γυναῖχες → γυναῖκες; ν“. → ν..

Topics: Christology, Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.2 (Funk 1:293–295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.3Funk 1:295

καὶ γὰρ καὶ νῦν δεκάτῃ τοῦ μηνὸς Γορπιαίου συναθροιζόμενοι τοὺς Θρήνους Ἱερεμίου ἀναγινώσκουσιν, ἐν οἷς εἴρηται· Πνεῦμα πρὸ προσώπου ἡμῶν Χριστὸς κύριος συνελήφθη ἐν ταῖς διαφθοραῖς αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸν Βαρούχ, ἐν ᾧ γέγραπται. Οὗτος ὃ θεὸς ἡμῶν, οὐ λογισθήσεται ἕτερος πρὸς αὐτόν᾽ ἐξεῦρεν πᾶσαν ὁδὸν ἐπιστήμης, καὶ ἔδειξεν αὐτὴν Ἰακὼβ τῷ παιδὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ· μετὰ ταῦτα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὦφθη καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συνανεστράφη. καὶ ὅταν ἀναγνῶσιν, κόπτονται καὶ θρηνοῦσιν, ὡς μὲν αὐτοὶ νομίζουσιν, τὴν ἐρημίαν τὴν ὑπὸ Ναβουχοδονόσορ γενομένην, ὡς δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια ἔχει, προοίμια ποιοῦνται ἄκοντες τοῦ μέλλοντος αὐτοὺς καταλαμβάνειν πένθους.

kai gar kai nyn dekatę̄ tou mēnos Gorpiaiou synathroizomenoi tous Thrēnous Hieremiou anaginōskousin, en hois eirētai; Pneuma pro prosōpou hēmōn Christos kyrios synelēphthē en tais diaphthorais autōn, kai ton Barouch, en hǭ gegraptai. Houtos ho theos hēmōn, ou logisthēsetai heteros pros auton᾽ exeuren pasan hodon epistēmēs, kai edeixen autēn Iakōb tǭ paidi autou kai Israēl tǭ ēgapēmenǭ hyp᾽ autou; meta tauta epi tēs gēs ōphthē kai tois anthrōpois synanestraphē. kai hotan anagnōsin, koptontai kai thrēnousin, hōs men autoi nomizousin, tēn erēmian tēn hypo Nabouchodonosor genomenēn, hōs de hē alētheia echei, prooimia poiountai akontes tou mellontos autous katalambanein penthous.

For even now, on the tenth of the month Gorpiaeus, they assemble and read the Lamentations of Jeremiah, in which it is said, “The breath of our face, Christ the Lord, was taken in their corruptions,” and Baruch, in which it is written, “This is our God; no other shall be reckoned beside him. He found out every way of knowledge and showed it to Jacob his servant and to Israel, who was beloved by him; afterward he appeared on earth and lived among men.” And when they read, they beat their breasts and lament, as they themselves suppose, over the desolation that took place under Nebuchadnezzar, but, as the truth is, they are unwillingly making a prelude to the mourning that is about to overtake them.

Lam 4:20 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The Jews' annual reading of Lamentations and Baruch is taken as an unwitting lament over Christ.

The tenth of Gorpiaeus (late summer) is the Jewish fast for the destruction of the temple. Quotations: Lam 4:20; Bar 3:36–38. The polemic is the work's own.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: κ read as χ): xai → καὶ; ἀναγινώσχουσιν → ἀναγινώσκουσιν; " »lvtóua → · Πνεῦμα; ν“, → ν,; ,,Ο → Ο; ῦ" → ῦ· ; η“. → η.; ἄχοντες → ἄκοντες.

Extrabiblical texts: Bar 3:36-38 (Baruch [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.3 (Funk 1:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.4Funk 1:295

μετὰ δὲ δέκα ἡμέρας τῆς ἀναλήψεως, ἥτις ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης κυριακῆς πεντηκοστὴ γίνεται, ἑορτὴ μεγάλη ὑμῖν ἔστω᾽ ἐν αὐτῇ γὰρ ὥρᾳ τρίτῃ ἀπέστειλεν εἰς ἡμᾶς ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς τὴν δωρεὰν τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, καὶ ἐπλήσθημεν αὐτοῦ τῆς ἐνεργείας καὶ γλώσσαις καιναῖς ἐλαλήσαμεν, καθὼς ἐκεῖνο ὑπήχει ἐν ἡμῖν, καὶ ἐκηρύξαμεν Ἰουδαίοις τε καὶ ἔθνεσιν, αὐτὸν εἶναι τὸν Χριστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν ὡρισμένον ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ κριτὴν ζώντων καὶ νεκρῶν.

meta de deka hēmeras tēs analēpseōs, hētis apo tēs prōtēs kyriakēs pentēkostē ginetai, heortē megalē hymin estō᾽ en autę̄ gar hōrą tritę̄ apesteilen eis hēmas ho kyrios Iēsous tēn dōrean tou hagiou pneumatos, kai eplēsthēmen autou tēs energeias kai glōssais kainais elalēsamen, kathōs ekeino hypēchei en hēmin, kai ekēryxamen Ioudaiois te kai ethnesin, auton einai ton Christon tou theou ton hōrismenon hyp᾽ autou kritēn zōntōn kai nekrōn.

And ten days after the ascension, which is the fiftieth from the first Lord's day, let there be a great feast for you; for on it, at the third hour, the Lord Jesus sent to us the gift of the Holy Spirit, and we were filled with his working and spoke with new tongues, as he prompted within us, and we preached to Jews and Gentiles that he is the Christ of God, appointed by him judge of the living and the dead.

Acts 2:1–4 (allusion, high confidence) · Acts 2:15 (allusion, medium confidence) · Acts 10:42 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Pentecost is a great feast recalling the gift of the Spirit and the first preaching.

Acts 2:1–4, 15; 10:42.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): πεντηχοστὴ → πεντηκοστὴ; Ó κύριος → ὁ κύριος; χαθὼς ἐχεῖνο ὑπήχει → καθὼς ἐκεῖνο ὑπήχει.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.4 (Funk 1:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.5Funk 1:295

τοῦτον Μωσῆς μαρτυρῶν ἔλεγεν, Ἔλαβεν κύριος παρὰ κυρίου πῦρ καὶ ἔβρεξεν. τοῦτον εἶδεν Ἰακὼβ ὡς ἄνθρωπον καὶ εἶπεν· Εἶδον θεὸν πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον, καὶ ἐσώθη μου ἡ ψυχή. τοῦτον Αβραὰμ ξενοδοχήσας κριτὴν ὡμολόγει καὶ ἑαυτοῦ κύριον.

touton Mōsēs martyrōn elegen, Elaben kyrios para kyriou pyr kai ebrexen. touton eiden Iakōb hōs anthrōpon kai eipen; Eidon theon prosōpon pros prosōpon, kai esōthē mou hē psychē. touton Abraam xenodochēsas kritēn hōmologei kai heautou kyrion.

To him Moses bore witness, saying, “The Lord received fire from the Lord and rained it down.” Him Jacob saw as a man and said, “I have seen God face to face, and my soul was preserved.” Him Abraham entertained as a guest and confessed as judge and as his own Lord.

Gen 19:24 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 32:30 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 18:1–25 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: The Son appeared to the patriarchs in the Old Testament.

Gen 19:24; 32:30; 18:1–25. These appearances are read as appearances of the Son.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ν“. → ν.; laxo) → Ἰακὼβ; " ,Elóov → · Εἶδον; ή“. → ή..

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.5 (Funk 1:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.6Funk 1:295–297

τοῦτον Μωσῆς ἐπὶ τῆς βάτου τεθέαται᾽ περὶ τούτου ἐν Δευτερονομίῳ ἔλεγεν. Προφήτην ὑμῖν ἀναστήσει κύριος ὃ θεὸς ἐκ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ὑμῶν ὡς ἐμέ· αὐτοῦ ἀκούσεσθε κατὰ πάντα, ὅσα τοῦ προφήτου ἐκείνου, ἐξολοθρευθήσεται ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτῆς.

touton Mōsēs epi tēs batou tetheatai᾽ peri toutou en Deuteronomiǭ elegen. Prophētēn hymin anastēsei kyrios ho theos ek tōn adelphōn hymōn hōs eme; autou akousesthe kata panta, hosa tou prophētou ekeinou, exolothreuthēsetai ek tou laou autēs.

Him Moses beheld in the bush; concerning him he said in Deuteronomy, “The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet from among your brothers like me; you shall listen to him in all things, whatever … of that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among its people.”

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Exod 3:2 (allusion, high confidence) · Deut 18:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 3:22–23 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Moses saw the Son in the bush and foretold him as the prophet to come.

Exod 3:2; quotation: Deut 18:15, 19 in the form of Acts 3:22–23. Words appear to be lost in the scan where “…” stands.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): Aevτερονομίῳ → Δευτερονομίῳ; ,ἸΠροφήτην → Προφήτην; ἐμέʼ → ἐμέ·; ς“. → ς..

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.6 (Funk 1:295–297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.7Funk 1:297

τοῦτον εἶδεν Ἰησοῦς ὁ τοῦ Ναυῆ στρατάρχην τῆς δυνάμεως κυρίου καθωπλισμένον, σύμμαχον εἰς Ἰεριχώ, ᾧ καὶ πεσὼν προσεκύνησεν, ὡς δοῦλος δεσπότῃ. τοῦτον Σαμουὴλ εἰδὼς, Χριστὸν θεοῦ, τοὺς ἱερεῖς καὶ τοὺς βασιλεῖς χριστοὺς ὠνόμαζεν.

touton eiden Iēsous ho tou Nauē stratarchēn tēs dynameōs kyriou kathōplismenon, symmachon eis Ierichō, hǭ kai pesōn prosekynēsen, hōs doulos despotę̄. touton Samouēl eidōs, Christon theou, tous hiereis kai tous basileis christous ōnomazen.

Him Joshua the son of Nun saw as “the commander of the army of the Lord,” fully armed, an ally against Jericho, and he fell down and worshiped him as a servant his master. Knowing him as the Christ of God, Samuel called the priests and the kings “christs.”

Josh 5:13–15 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Sam 12:3 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Joshua worshiped the Son as commander of the Lord's army, and Samuel called priests and kings anointed after him.

Josh 5:13–15. The scan's word for “commander” is garbled and is read as στρατάρχην. 1 Sam 12:3.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,,ὐτρατάρχην → στρατάρχην; υ“ → υ ; TeQuyo → Ἰεριχώ; προσεχύνησεν → προσεκύνησεν; θεοῦʼ' → θεοῦ,; χριστοὺ: → χριστοὺς.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.7 (Funk 1:297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.8Funk 1:297

τοῦτον Δαυὶδ εἰδὼς ἔψαλλεν τὴν ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ ᾠδὴν λέγων· ᾨδὴ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ, καὶ ἐπιφέρων εἰς πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἔφασκεν· Περίζωσαι τὴν ῥομφαίαν σου ἐπὶ τὸν μηρόν σου, δυνατέ, τῇ ὡραιότητί σου καὶ τῷ κάλλει σου, καὶ ἔντεινον καὶ κατευοδοῦ καὶ βασίλευε ἕνεκεν ἀληθείας καὶ πραότητος καὶ δικαιοσύνης, καὶ ὁδηγήσει σε θαυμαστῶς ἡ δεξιά σου· τὰ βέλη σου ἠκονημένα, δυνατέ, λαοὶ ὑποκάτω σου πεσοῦνται ἐν καρδίᾳ τῶν ἐχθρῶν τοῦ βασιλέως διὰ τοῦτο ἔχρισέν σε, ὁ θεός, ὃ θεός σου ἔλαιον ἀγαλλιάσεως παρὰ τοὺς μετόχους σου.

touton Dauid eidōs epsallen tēn hyper autou ǭdēn legōn; Ǭdē hyper tou agapētou, kai epipherōn eis prosōpon autou ephasken; Perizōsai tēn rhomphaian sou epi ton mēron sou, dynate, tę̄ hōraiotēti sou kai tǭ kallei sou, kai enteinon kai kateuodou kai basileue heneken alētheias kai praotētos kai dikaiosynēs, kai hodēgēsei se thaumastōs hē dexia sou; ta belē sou ēkonēmena, dynate, laoi hypokatō sou pesountai en kardią tōn echthrōn tou basileōs dia touto echrisen se, ho theos, ho theos sou elaion agalliaseōs para tous metochous sou.

Knowing him, David sang the song about him, saying, “A song for the beloved,” and, applying it to his person, he said: “Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, in your comeliness and your beauty, and bend your bow and prosper and reign, for the sake of truth and meekness and righteousness, and your right hand shall guide you wonderfully. Your arrows are sharp, O mighty one; peoples shall fall under you, in the heart of the king's enemies. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

Ps 45:1 (44:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 45:3–5 (44:4-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 45:7 (44:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: David sang Psalm 45 of the Son.

Quotations: Ps 45 title, 3–5, 7 (44:1, 4–6, 8 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): αὐδὴν → ᾠδὴν; " ,ἰἸΩιδὴ → · ᾨδὴ; ῦ“, → ῦ,; " » → · ; δόηγήσει → ὁδηγήσει; υ" → υ· ; ὁὀυνατέ → δυνατέ; υ“. → υ..

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.8 (Funk 1:297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.9Funk 1:297

περὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁ Σολομὼν ἔλεγεν ὡς ἐκ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, Κύριος ἔκτισέν με ἀρχὴν ὁδῶν αὐτοῦ εἰς ἔργα αὐτοῦ, πρὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος ἐθεμελίωσέν με, ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸ τοῦ τὴν γῆν ποιῆσαι, πρὸ τοῦ προελθεῖν τὰς πηγὰς τῶν ὑδάτων, πρὸ τοῦ ὄρη ἑδρασθῆναι, πρὸ δὲ πάντων βουνῶν γεννᾷ με, καὶ πάλιν. Ἡ σοφία ᾠκοδόμησεν ἑαυτῇ οἶκον.

peri autou kai ho Solomōn elegen hōs ek prosōpou autou, Kyrios ektisen me archēn hodōn autou eis erga autou, pro tou aiōnos ethemeliōsen me, en archę̄ pro tou tēn gēn poiēsai, pro tou proelthein tas pēgas tōn hydatōn, pro tou orē hedrasthēnai, pro de pantōn bounōn genną me, kai palin. Hē sophia ǭkodomēsen heautę̄ oikon.

Concerning him Solomon too said, as in his person: “The Lord created me as the beginning of his ways for his works; before the age he founded me; in the beginning, before he made the earth, before the springs of waters came forth, before the mountains were settled, and before all the hills, he begets me”; and again, “Wisdom has built herself a house.”

Prov 8:22–25 (quotation, high confidence) · Prov 9:1 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Solomon spoke of the Son as Wisdom in Proverbs 8 and 9.

Quotations: Prov 8:22–25 (LXX, “created”); 9:1. Prov 8:22 was disputed in the fourth-century controversies; translated as written.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ῦ", → ῦ,; δόῶν → ὁδῶν; u&^ → με; ,Η σοφία ῳκχοδόμησεν → Ἡ σοφία ᾠκοδόμησεν; ν“. → ν..

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.9 (Funk 1:297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.10Funk 1:297

περὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἡσαΐας ἔλεγεν. Ἐξελεύσεται ῥάβδος ἐκ τῆς ῥίζης Ἰεσσαί, καὶ ἄνθος ἐκ τῆς ῥίζης ἀναβήσεται, καὶ ἔσται ἡ ῥίζα τοῦ Ἰεσσαὶ καὶ ὃ ἀνιστάμενος ἄρχειν ἐθνῶν, ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ ἔθνη ἐλπιοῦσιν, Ζαχαρίας δέ: Ἰδοὺ ὁ βασιλεύς σου ἔρχεται δίκαιος καὶ σῴζων, αὐτὸς πρᾶος καὶ ἐπιβεβηκὼς ἐπὶ ὄνον καὶ πῶλον υἱὸν ὑποζυγίου.

peri autou kai Hēsaïas elegen. Exeleusetai rhabdos ek tēs rhizēs Iessai, kai anthos ek tēs rhizēs anabēsetai, kai estai hē rhiza tou Iessai kai ho anistamenos archein ethnōn, ep᾿ autǭ ethnē elpiousin, Zacharias de: Idou ho basileus sou erchetai dikaios kai sǭzōn, autos praos kai epibebēkōs epi onon kai pōlon huion hypozygiou.

Concerning him Isaiah too said, “A rod shall come forth from the root of Jesse, and a flower shall come up from the root; and there shall be the root of Jesse, and he who rises up to rule the nations; in him the nations shall hope”; and Zechariah, “Behold, your king comes, righteous and saving; he is meek, and mounted on a donkey and a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.”

Isa 11:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 11:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Zech 9:9 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Isaiah and Zechariah prophesied of the Son.

Quotations: Isa 11:1, 10; Zech 9:9.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,,Εξελεύσεται → Ἐξελεύσεται; ὁίζης → ῥίζης; ἀναρήσεται → ἀναβήσεται; ν“, → ν,; ,,Ἰ → Ἰ; ὀίκαιος xai σοζων → δίκαιος καὶ σῴζων; υ“. → υ..

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.10 (Funk 1:297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.11Funk 1:297

τοῦτον Δανιὴλ υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου λέγει εἶναι, ἐρχόμενον πρὸς τὸν πατέρα, καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν κρίσιν καὶ τὴν τιμὴν παρ᾽ ἐκείνου ὑποδεχόμενον, καὶ λίθον ἀπὸ ὄρους ἄνευ χειρῶν τμηθέντα καὶ γενόμενον εἰς ὄρος μέγα καὶ πληρώσαντα πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν, συντρίβοντα πολυαρχίαν τοπαρχιῶν καὶ πολυθείαν ἀθέων, κηρύσσοντα δὲ τὸν ἕνα θεὸν καὶ χειροτονοῦντα τὴν Ῥωμαίων μοναρχίαν.

touton Daniēl huion anthrōpou legei einai, erchomenon pros ton patera, kai pasan tēn krisin kai tēn timēn par᾽ ekeinou hypodechomenon, kai lithon apo orous aneu cheirōn tmēthenta kai genomenon eis oros mega kai plērōsanta pasan tēn gēn, syntribonta polyarchian toparchiōn kai polytheian atheōn, kēryssonta de ton hena theon kai cheirotonounta tēn Rhōmaiōn monarchian.

Daniel says that he is “a son of man” “coming” to the Father and receiving from him all judgment and honor, and “a stone cut out from a mountain without hands,” which became a great mountain and filled the whole earth, shattering the many rules of local principalities and the polytheism of the godless, and proclaiming the one God and appointing the monarchy of the Romans.

Dan 7:13–14 (allusion, high confidence) · Dan 2:34–35 (allusion, high confidence) · Dan 2:45 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Daniel foresaw the Son of Man and the stone that filled the earth.

Dan 7:13–14; 2:34–35, 45. The stone's work is linked to the single rule of the Romans.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: stray marks): ,viór → υἱὸν; υ“ → υ ; ν“ → ν ; ,,λ → λ; α"“ → α ; " * * 1 e , c ? F δὲ → δὲ; xoi → καὶ; “Ρωμαίων → Ῥωμαίων.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.11 (Funk 1:297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.12Funk 1:297–299

περὶ τούτου καὶ Ἱερεμίας προφητεύων ἔλεγεν· Πνεῦμα πρὸ προσώπου ἡμῶν Χριστὸς κύριος συνελήφθη ἐν ταῖς διαφθοραῖς αὐτῶν, οὗ εἴπομεν· ἐν τῇ σκιᾷ αὐτοῦ ζησόμεθα ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν καὶ Ἰεζεκιὴλ δὲ καὶ οἱ καθεξῆς προφῆται πανταχοῦ, τοῦτον εἶναι Χριστὸν κύριον, βασιλέα, κριτήν, νομοθέτην, ἄγγελον τοῦ πατρός, μονογενῆ θεόν.

peri toutou kai Hieremias prophēteuōn elegen; Pneuma pro prosōpou hēmōn Christos kyrios synelēphthē en tais diaphthorais autōn, hou eipomen; en tę̄ skią autou zēsometha en tois ethnesin kai Iezekiēl de kai hoi kathexēs prophētai pantachou, touton einai Christon kyrion, basilea, kritēn, nomothetēn, angelon tou patros, monogenē theon.

Concerning him Jeremiah too, prophesying, said, “The breath of our face, Christ the Lord, was taken in their corruptions, of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the nations”; and Ezekiel too, and the prophets in succession, everywhere declare that he is the Christ, the Lord, King, Judge, Lawgiver, Angel of the Father, only-begotten God.

Lam 4:20 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Jeremiah, Ezekiel and all the prophets proclaim the Son as Christ and only-begotten God.

Quotation: Lam 4:20, ascribed to Jeremiah.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): “ερεμίας → Ἱερεμίας; " »7θλνεῦμα → · Πνεῦμα; οὐ εἴπομεν" → οὗ εἴπομεν·; ν““ → ν .

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.12 (Funk 1:297–299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.13Funk 1:299

τοῦτον οὖν καὶ ἡμεῖς κηρύσσομεν ὑμῖν καὶ εὐαγγελιζόμεθα θεὸν λόγον, ὑπηρετούμενον τῷ θεῷ αὐτοῦ καὶ πατρὶ εἰς τὴν τῶν ὅλων δημιουργίαν· τούτῳ πιστεύοντες ζήσεσθε, ἀπιστοῦντες δὲ κολασθήσεσθε. ὁ γὰρ ἀπειθῶν τῷ υἱῷ οὐκ ὄψεται τὴν ζωήν, ἀλλ᾽ ἡ ὀργὴ τοῦ θεοῦ μένει ἐπʼ αὐτόν.

touton oun kai hēmeis kēryssomen hymin kai euangelizometha theon logon, hypēretoumenon tǭ theǭ autou kai patri eis tēn tōn holōn dēmiourgian; toutǭ pisteuontes zēsesthe, apistountes de kolasthēsesthe. ho gar apeithōn tǭ huiǭ ouk opsetai tēn zōēn, all᾽ hē orgē tou theou menei epʼ auton.

Him, then, we too proclaim to you and preach as God the Word, who ministers to his God and Father in the creation of all things; believing in him you will live, but disbelieving you will be punished. For “he who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

John 3:36 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The apostles preach the Son as God the Word, through whom the Father created all things.

The Son “ministers” (ὑπηρετούμενον) to his God and Father in creation: translated as written. Quotation: John 3:36.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): 969 → θεῷ; ν" → ν· ; 0 yàg ,, → ὁ γὰρ ; ν“. → ν..

Topics: Christology, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.13 (Funk 1:299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.14Funk 1:299

μετὰ οὖν τὸ ἑορτάσαι ὑμᾶς τὴν πεντηκοστὴν ἑορτάσατε μίαν ἑβδομάδα, καὶ μετ᾽ ἐκείνην νηστεύσατε μίαν᾽ δίκαιον γὰρ καὶ εὐφρανθῆναι ἐπὶ τῇ ἐκ θεοῦ δωρεᾷ καὶ νηστεῦσαι μετὰ τὴν ἄνεσιν. καὶ γὰρ καὶ Μωσῆς καὶ Ἠλίας ἐνήστευσαν τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρας, καὶ Δανιὴλ τρεῖς ἑβδομάδας ἡμερῶν ἄρτον ἐπιθυμιῶν οὐκ ἔφαγεν, καὶ κρέας καὶ οἶνος οὐκ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἡ μακαρία Ἄννα αἰτουμένη τὸν Σαμουὴλ λέγει. Οἶνον καὶ μέθυσμα οὐ πέπωκα, καὶ ἐκχεῶ τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐνώπιον κυρίου.

meta oun to heortasai hymas tēn pentēkostēn heortasate mian hebdomada, kai met᾽ ekeinēn nēsteusate mian᾽ dikaion gar kai euphranthēnai epi tę̄ ek theou dōreą kai nēsteusai meta tēn anesin. kai gar kai Mōsēs kai Ēlias enēsteusan tessarakonta hēmeras, kai Daniēl treis hebdomadas hēmerōn arton epithymiōn ouk ephagen, kai kreas kai oinos ouk eisēlthen eis to stoma autou. kai hē makaria Anna aitoumenē ton Samouēl legei. Oinon kai methysma ou pepōka, kai ekcheō tēn psychēn mou enōpion kyriou.

After you have celebrated Pentecost, then, celebrate one week, and after that fast one; for it is right both to rejoice in the gift from God and to fast after the relaxation. [15] For Moses and Elijah fasted forty days, and “Daniel for three weeks of days ate no pleasant bread, and meat and wine did not enter his mouth”; and the blessed Hannah, asking for Samuel, says, “I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, and I will pour out my soul before the Lord.”

Exod 34:28 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Kgs 19:8 (allusion, high confidence) · Dan 10:2–3 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Sam 1:15 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: A week of feasting after Pentecost is followed by a week of fasting, after the examples of Moses, Elijah, Daniel and Hannah.

The section number 15 was lost in the OCR; “[15]” marks where it begins. Exod 34:28; 1 Kgs 19:8; quotations: Dan 10:2–3; 1 Sam 1:15.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: section number (15) removed): πεντηχοστὴν → πεντηκοστὴν; xol → καὶ; τς. καὶ → καὶ; » Δ → Δ; ῦ“. → ῦ.; ννα → Ἄννα; ,,Ο → Ο; υ“. → υ..

Topics: Fasting

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.14 (Funk 1:299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.16Funk 1:299

καὶ Νινευῖται, νηστεύσαντες τρεῖς ἡμέρας καὶ τρεῖς νύκτας, τῆς ὀργῆς τὴν πεῖραν ἀπέφυγον, καὶ ᾿Εσθὴρ καὶ Μαρδοχαῖος καὶ Ἰουδὶθ τὴν τῶν ἀσεβῶν ἐπανάστασιν νηστεύσαντες ἀπέφυγον Ὀλοφέρνου καὶ Ἀμάν, καὶ Δαυὶδ λέγει᾽͵Τὰ γόνατά μου ἠσθένησαν ἀπὸ νηστείας, καὶ ἡ σάρξ μου ἠλλοιώθη δι᾽ ἔλαιον.

kai Nineuitai, nēsteusantes treis hēmeras kai treis nyktas, tēs orgēs tēn peiran apephygon, kai ᾿Esthēr kai Mardochaios kai Ioudith tēn tōn asebōn epanastasin nēsteusantes apephygon Olophernou kai Aman, kai Dauid legei᾽͵Ta gonata mou ēsthenēsan apo nēsteias, kai hē sarx mou ēlloiōthē di᾽ elaion.

And the Ninevites, fasting three days and three nights, escaped the trial of wrath; and Esther and Mordecai and Judith, by fasting, escaped the uprising of the ungodly, of Holofernes and Haman; and David says, “My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh is changed for want of oil.”

Jonah 3:5–10 (allusion, high confidence) · Esth 4:16 (allusion, high confidence) · Ps 109:24 (108:24 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The Ninevites, Esther, Mordecai and Judith escaped danger by fasting.

Jonah 3:5–10; Esth 4:16; Jdt 4:9–13; 8:6; quotation: Ps 109:24 (108:24 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): Νιψευῖται → Νινευῖται; ᾿Ιουδὶθʼ → Ἰουδὶθ; μάν, → Ἀμάν,; ͵,,Τ → ͵Τ; 1j σάρξ → ἡ σάρξ; δι ἔλαιον“ → δι᾽ ἔλαιον.

Extrabiblical texts: Jdt 8:6 (Judith [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; allusion)

Topics: Fasting

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.16 (Funk 1:299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.17Funk 1:299–301

καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν νηστεύοντες αἰτεῖσθε παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τὰ αἰτήματα ὑμῶν. μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἑβδομάδα τῆς νηστείας πᾶσαν τετράδα καὶ πᾶσαν παρασκευὴν προστάσσομεν ὑμῖν νηστεύειν, καὶ τὴν περισσείαν ὑμῶν τῆς νηστείας πένησιν ἐπιχορηγεῖν.

kai hymeis oun nēsteuontes aiteisthe para tou theou ta aitēmata hymōn. meta de tēn hebdomada tēs nēsteias pasan tetrada kai pasan paraskeuēn prostassomen hymin nēsteuein, kai tēn perisseian hymōn tēs nēsteias penēsin epichorēgein.

You too, then, when you fast, ask of God your petitions. [18] And after the week of fasting we command you to fast every Wednesday and every Friday, and to supply to the poor what you save by your fasting.

Notes and citation

Summary: The faithful fast every Wednesday and Friday and give what they save to the poor.

The section number 18 was lost in the OCR; “[18]” marks where it begins.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: section number (18) removed): τ8. μετὰ → μετὰ.

Topics: Fasting, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.17 (Funk 1:299–301; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.20.19Funk 1:301

πᾶν μέντοι σάββατον ἄνευ τοῦ ἑνὸς καὶ πᾶσαν κυριακὴν ἐπιτελοῦντες συνόδους εὐφραίνεσθε· ἔνοχος γὰρ ἁμαρτίας ἔσται ὁ τὴν κυριακὴν νηστεύων, ἡμέραν ἀναστάσεως οὖσαν, ἢ τὴν πεντηκοστὴν ἢ ὅλως ἡμέραν ἑορτῆς κυρίου κατηφῶν· εὐφρανθῆναι γὰρ δεῖ ἐν αὐταῖς, ἀλλ᾽ οὐ πενθῆσαι.

pan mentoi sabbaton aneu tou henos kai pasan kyriakēn epitelountes synodous euphrainesthe; enochos gar hamartias estai ho tēn kyriakēn nēsteuōn, hēmeran anastaseōs ousan, ē tēn pentēkostēn ē holōs hēmeran heortēs kyriou katēphōn; euphranthēnai gar dei en autais, all᾽ ou penthēsai.

But keep festival on every Sabbath except the one, and on every Lord's day, holding assemblies; for he will be guilty of sin who fasts on the Lord's day, since it is the day of resurrection, or who is downcast at Pentecost or at any feast day of the Lord at all; for one must rejoice on them, not mourn.

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Summary: No one may fast on Sundays, at Pentecost or on the Lord's feasts.

“Except the one”: Holy Saturday.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ε" → ε· ; Ó τὴν → ὁ τὴν; àvaστάσεως → ἀναστάσεως; ν" → ν· .

Topics: Fasting

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 5.20.19 (Funk 1:301; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-5-20-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 1

6.1.1Funk 1:303

Πρὸ πάντων φυλάσσεσθε, ὦ ἐπίσκοποι, τὰς δεινὰς καὶ χαλεπὰς καὶ ἀθεμίτους αἱρέσεις, φεύγοντες αὐτὰς ὥσπερ πῦρ φλέγον τοὺς αὐτῷ πλησιάζοντας. φεύγετε δὲ καὶ τὰ σχίσματα. οὔτε γὰρ πρὸς ἀνοσίους αἱρέσεις θεμιτὸν ἐκκλῖναι τὸν νοῦν, οὔτε τῶν ὁμογνωμόνων χωρίζεσθαι θεμιτὸν διὰ φιλαρχίαν.

Pro pantōn phylassesthe, ō episkopoi, tas deinas kai chalepas kai athemitous haireseis, pheugontes autas hōsper pyr phlegon tous autǭ plēsiazontas. pheugete de kai ta schismata. oute gar pros anosious haireseis themiton ekklinai ton noun, oute tōn homognōmonōn chōrizesthai themiton dia philarchian.

Above all, O bishops, guard against the terrible, grievous, and unlawful heresies, fleeing them as a fire that burns those who come near it. Flee also schisms. For it is neither lawful to turn the mind aside to unholy heresies, nor lawful, out of love of rule, to separate from those of the same mind.

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Summary: Bishops must flee heresies and schisms.

Book 6 reworks book 6 of the Didascalia.

Topics: Heresy, Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.1.1 (Funk 1:303; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.1.2Funk 1:303

ταῦτα γὰρ καὶ τὸ παλαιόν τινες τολμήσαντες ἐπιχειρῆσαι οὐ διέφυγον τὴν τιμωρίαν. Δαθὰν γὰρ καὶ Ἀβειρὼν ἀντιπρόσωποι γενόμενοι Μωσεῖ κατεπόθησαν εἰς γῆν, Κορὲ δὲ καὶ οἱ μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ διακόσιοι πεντήκοντα, τῷ Ἀαρὼν διαστασιάσαντες, πυρὸς παρανάλωμα γεγόνασιν, Μαριὰμ δὲ ὡς ἑλληνοκοίτην ὀνειδίσασα Μωσῆν ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς ἀπεβλήθη ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας· ἔλεγεν γάρ, ὅτι γυναῖκα Μωῦσῆς Αἰθιόπισσαν ἔλαβεν.

tauta gar kai to palaion tines tolmēsantes epicheirēsai ou diephygon tēn timōrian. Dathan gar kai Abeirōn antiprosōpoi genomenoi Mōsei katepothēsan eis gēn, Kore de kai hoi met᾽ autou diakosioi pentēkonta, tǭ Aarōn diastasiasantes, pyros paranalōma gegonasin, Mariam de hōs hellēnokoitēn oneidisasa Mōsēn exō tēs parembolēs apeblēthē hepta hēmeras; elegen gar, hoti gynaika Mōysēs Aithiopissan elaben.

For some who of old dared to attempt these things did not escape punishment. For Dathan and Abiram, setting themselves against Moses, were swallowed up into the earth, and Korah and the two hundred and fifty with him, having risen in faction against Aaron, became fuel for fire; and Miriam, having reproached Moses as one who had lain with a foreign woman, was cast outside the camp for seven days; for she said that Moses had taken an Ethiopian wife.

Num 16:31–35 (allusion, high confidence) · Num 12:1 (allusion, high confidence) · Num 12:14–15 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Dathan, Abiram, Korah and Miriam were punished for rebelling against Moses and Aaron.

Num 16:31–35; 12:1, 10–15.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ᾿4βειρὼν → Ἀβειρὼν; χατεπόθησαν → κατεπόθησαν; πεντήχοντα → πεντήκοντα; “Μωσῆν → Μωσῆν; ς" → ς· ; γυναῖχα → γυναῖκα.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.1.2 (Funk 1:303; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.1.3Funk 1:303–305

οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ καὶ Ἀζαρίας ὁ καὶ Ὀζίας, οὗτος δὲ ἦν βασιλεὺς τοῦ Ἰούδα, κατατολμήσας τῆς ἱερωσύνης καὶ θυμιάσαι βουληθεὶς τὸ θυμίαμα, ὃ οὐ προσῆκον ἦν αὐτῷ, κωλυόμενος ὑπὸ Ἀζαρίου τοῦ ἀρχιερέως καὶ τῶν ὀγδοήκοντα ἱερέων καὶ μὴ ὑπακούσας, ἐξανέτειλεν λέπραν ἐν τῷ μετώπῳ καὶ ἔσπευσεν ἐξελθεῖν, ὅτι ἤλεγξεν αὐτὸν ὁ κύριος.

ou mēn de alla kai Azarias ho kai Ozias, houtos de ēn basileus tou Iouda, katatolmēsas tēs hierōsynēs kai thymiasai boulētheis to thymiama, ho ou prosēkon ēn autǭ, kōlyomenos hypo Azariou tou archiereōs kai tōn ogdoēkonta hiereōn kai mē hypakousas, exaneteilen lepran en tǭ metōpǭ kai espeusen exelthein, hoti ēlenxen auton ho kyrios.

And not only these, but also Azariah, also called Uzziah, who was king of Judah, daring to usurp the priesthood and wishing to burn the incense, which was not fitting for him, when he was forbidden by Azariah the high priest and the eighty priests and did not obey, broke out in leprosy on his forehead and hastened to go out, because the Lord had rebuked him.

2 Chr 26:16–20 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: King Uzziah was struck with leprosy for usurping the priesthood.

2 Chr 26:16–20.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ὁὲ → δὲ ; xal → καὶ; ἣν αὐτῷ → ἦν αὐτῷ.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.1.3 (Funk 1:303–305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-1-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 2

6.2.1Funk 1:305

Προσέχωμεν οὖν, ἀγαπητοί, τί τὸ κλέος τῶν στασιασάντων καὶ ποταπὴ ἡ ἀπόφασις αὐτῶν. εἰ γὰρ ὁ βασιλεῦσιν ἐπεγειρόμενος κολάσεως ἄξιος, κἂν υἱὸς ἢ, κἂν φίλος, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὃ ἱερεῦσιν ἐπανιστάμενος; ὅσῳ γὰρ ἱερωσύνη βασιλείας ἀμείνων, περὶ ψυχῆς ἔχουσα τὸν ἀγῶνα, τοσούτῳ καὶ βαρυτέραν ἔχει τὴν τιμωρίαν ὁ ταύτῃ τολμήσας ἀντομματεῖν, ἤπερ ὁ τῇ βασιλείᾳ.

Prosechōmen oun, agapētoi, ti to kleos tōn stasiasantōn kai potapē hē apophasis autōn. ei gar ho basileusin epegeiromenos kolaseōs axios, kan huios ē, kan philos, posǭ mallon ho hiereusin epanistamenos? hosǭ gar hierōsynē basileias ameinōn, peri psychēs echousa ton agōna, tosoutǭ kai baryteran echei tēn timōrian ho tautę̄ tolmēsas antommatein, ēper ho tę̄ basileią.

Let us consider, then, beloved, what the fame of those who rebelled was, and what sort of sentence was passed on them. For if he who rises against kings deserves punishment, even if he is a son or a friend, how much more he who rises up against priests? For as much as the priesthood is better than the kingship, having its contest concerning the soul, so much heavier is the punishment of him who dares to set himself against it than of him who does so against the kingship.

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Summary: Rebellion against priests is worse than rebellion against kings.

The verb rendered “set himself against” is garbled in the scan (ἀντομματεῖν); translated by sense.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.2.1 (Funk 1:305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.2.2Funk 1:305

καίτοιγε οὐδὲ εἷς ἀτιμώρητος· οὔτε γὰρ Αβεσσαλὼμ καὶ Ἀβεδδαδὰν ἔμειναν ἀτιμώρητοι, οὔτε Κορὲ καὶ Δαθάν. οἱ μὲν γὰρ τῷ Δαυὶδ περὶ βασιλείας, οἱ δὲ τῷ Μωσῇ περὶ πρωτείων ἐπανέστησαν ἁμιλλώμενοι.

kaitoige oude heis atimōrētos; oute gar Abessalōm kai Abeddadan emeinan atimōrētoi, oute Kore kai Dathan. hoi men gar tǭ Dauid peri basileias, hoi de tǭ Mōsę̄ peri prōteiōn epanestēsan hamillōmenoi.

And yet not one of them went unpunished; for neither Absalom and Abeddadan remained unpunished, nor Korah and Dathan. For the first rose up against David over the kingdom, the others against Moses over the primacy, as rivals.

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Summary: Rebels against David and against Moses were all punished.

Abeddadan: the rebel of 2 Sam 20, whose words are quoted in 6.2.4 (Sheba in the Bible); the name is kept as printed.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ς" → ς· ; ἀτιμορητοι → ἀτιμώρητοι; Óà τῷ Moos → δὲ τῷ Μωσῇ.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.2.2 (Funk 1:305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.2.3Funk 1:305

καὶ ἐκακολόγουν ὃ μὲν ᾿Αβεσσαλὼμ Δαυὶδ τὸν πατέρα ὡς ἄδικον κριτήν, λέγων ἑκάστῳ: Οἱ λόγοι σου καλοί, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ἀκουσόμενός σου καὶ δικαιώσας σε· τίς μὲ ποιήσει ἄρχοντα;

kai ekakologoun ho men ᾿Abessalōm Dauid ton patera hōs adikon kritēn, legōn hekastǭ: Hoi logoi sou kaloi, kai ouk estin ho akousomenos sou kai dikaiōsas se; tis me poiēsei archonta?

And Absalom spoke evil of David his father as an unjust judge, saying to each one, “Your words are good, and there is no one to hear you and justify you; who will make me ruler?”

2 Sam 15:3–4 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Absalom slandered David as an unjust judge.

Quotation: 2 Sam 15:3–4.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): ,,Ο → Ο; ι Gov κ → ι σου κ; ς Gov κ → ς σου κ; ε" → ε· ; α“; → α;.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.2.3 (Funk 1:305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.2.4Funk 1:305

ὁ δὲ Αβεδδαδάν. Οὐκ ἔστιν μοι, φησί, μερὶς ἐν Δαυὶδ οὐδὲ κληρονομία ἐν υἱῷ Ἰεσσαί, δῆλον ὡς ἀναξιοπαθῶν ἄρχεσθαι ὑπὸ Δαυίδ, περὶ οὗ εἶπεν ὁ θεός, ὅτι εὗρον Δαυὶδ τὸν τοῦ Ἰεσσαὶ ἄνδρα κατὰ τὴν καρδίαν μου, ὃς ποιήσει πάντα τὰ θελήματά μου

ho de Abeddadan. Ouk estin moi, phēsi, meris en Dauid oude klēronomia en huiǭ Iessai, dēlon hōs anaxiopathōn archesthai hypo Dauid, peri hou eipen ho theos, hoti heuron Dauid ton tou Iessai andra kata tēn kardian mou, hos poiēsei panta ta thelēmata mou

And Abeddadan: “I have no portion,” he says, “in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jesse,” plainly resenting being ruled by David, of whom God said, “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.”

2 Sam 20:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 13:22 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Abeddadan rejected David, God's chosen king.

Quotations: 2 Sam 20:1; Acts 13:22.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): ,,Ο → Ο; ί", → ί,; περὶ οὐ → περὶ οὗ; ,,ε → ε; ου“ → ου.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.2.4 (Funk 1:305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.2.5Funk 1:305

ὁ δὲ Δαθὰν καὶ Αβειρὼν καὶ οἱ Κορεῖται λέγοντες Μωσεῖ· Μὴ μικρόν, ὅτι ἀνήγαγες ἡμᾶς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, ἐκ γῆς ῥεούσης μέλι καὶ γάλα; καὶ τί ὅτι ἐξέκοψας τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἡμῶν; καὶ σὺ ἄρχεις ἡμῶν; καὶ ἐπισυνέστησαν ἐπὶ αὐτὸν ἐκκλησίαν μεγάλην᾽

ho de Dathan kai Abeirōn kai hoi Koreitai legontes Mōsei; Mē mikron, hoti anēgages hēmas ek gēs Aigyptou, ek gēs rheousēs meli kai gala? kai ti hoti exekopsas tous ophthalmous hēmōn? kai sy archeis hēmōn? kai episynestēsan epi auton ekklēsian megalēn᾽

And Dathan and Abiram and the Korahites said to Moses, “Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land of Egypt, out of a land flowing with honey and milk? And why have you put out our eyes? And are you ruling over us?” And they raised a great assembly against him.

Num 16:13–14 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 16:19 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Dathan, Abiram and Korah's company defied Moses.

Quotations: Num 16:13–14; cf. 16:19.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: κ read as χ): ὃ δὲ Δαθὰν → ὁ δὲ Δαθὰν; Most: ,, → Μωσεῖ· ; ν“; → ν;; ἐχκλησίαν → ἐκκλησίαν.

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.2.5 (Funk 1:305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.2.6Funk 1:305

καὶ οἱ Κορεῖται· Μὴ Μωσεῖ λελάληκεν μόνῳ ὁ θεός; τί ὅτι τῷ Ἀαρὼν δέδωκεν τὴν ἀρχιερωσύνην μόνῳ; οὐχὶ πᾶσα ἡ συναγωγὴ κυρίου ἁγία; καὶ τί ὅτι Ἀαρὼν ἱερατεύει μόνος;

kai hoi Koreitai; Mē Mōsei lelalēken monǭ ho theos? ti hoti tǭ Aarōn dedōken tēn archierōsynēn monǭ? ouchi pasa hē synagōgē kyriou hagia? kai ti hoti Aarōn hierateuei monos?

And the Korahites: “Has God spoken to Moses alone? Why has he given the high priesthood to Aaron alone? Is not the whole congregation of the Lord holy? And why does Aaron alone serve as priest?”

Num 12:2 (allusion, high confidence) · Num 16:3 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Korah's company disputed Aaron's priesthood.

Num 12:2; 16:3.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed): Kogsivav ,, ΜῊ → Κορεῖται· Μὴ; ἀαρὼν → Ἀαρὼν; ς“; → ς;.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.2.6 (Funk 1:305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.2.7Funk 1:305–309

καὶ πρὸ τούτων ἀλλος τις ἔλεγεν· Τίς σε κατέστησεν ἄρχοντα καὶ δικαστὴν ἐφ᾽ ἡμᾶς; καὶ ὡς τεῖχος τὰ ὕδατα ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν διαστήσαντα καὶ ὡς δι᾽ ἐρήμου ξηρᾶς τὸν λαὸν ἀγηοχότα καὶ βυθίσαντα Φαραὼ καὶ τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους καὶ πάντας τοὺς παρ᾽ αὐτῶν μετ᾽ αὐτῶν, τὸν γλυκάναντα πηγὴν αὐτοῖς διὰ ξύλου καὶ ἔκ πέτρας ἀκροτόμου προαγαγόντα αὐτοῖς ὕδωρ διψῶσιν, τὸν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ μαννοδοτήσαντα αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐξ ἀέρος κρεοδοτήσαντα, τὸν στῦλον πυρὸς ἐν νυκτὶ εἰς φωτισμὸν καὶ ὁδηγίαν παρεχόμενον αὐτοῖς καὶ στῦλον νεφέλης εἰς σκιασμὸν ἡμέρας διὰ τὸν ἐξ ἡλίου φλογμόν, τὸν νόμον θεοῦ ἐκ στόματος καὶ χειρὸς καὶ γραφῆς θεοῦ ἐν πλαξὶ λιθίναις κεκολαμμένον παρασχόμενον αὐτοῖς τελείου ἀριθμοῦ δεκάλογον, ᾧ ὁ θεὸς ἐνώπιος ἐνωπίῳ ὡμίλει, ὡσεί τις λαλήσαι πρὸς ἑαυτοῦ φίλον., περὶ οὗ εἶπεν· Καὶ οὐκ ἀνέστη προφήτης ὡς Μωσῆς. τούτῳ ἐπανέστησαν οἱ Κορεῖται καὶ οἱ Ῥουβηλῖται, καὶ λίθους ἔβαλον κατὰ τοῦ Μωσέως προσευχομένου καὶ λέγοντος· , Μὴ πρόσχῃς εἰς τὴν θυσίαν αὐτῶν, καὶ ὀφθεῖσα ἡ δόξα τοῦ θεοῦ τοὺς μὲν εἰς γῆν κατήνεγκεν, τοὺς δὲ πυρὶ κατέφλεξεν, καὶ οὕτως τοὺς ἀρχηγοὺς τῆς πλάνης τοῦ σχίσματος λέγοντας· Δῶμεν ἀρχηγὸν ἑαυτοῖς, Ἤνοιξεν ἡ γῆ τὸ στόμα αὐτῆς καὶ κατέπιεν αὐτοὺς καὶ τὰς σκηνὰς αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν ἀποσκευὴν αὐτῶν, καὶ κατῆλθον εἰς ᾅδου ζῶντες, τοὺς δὲ Κορείτας ἀπώλεσεν διὰ πυρός.

kai pro toutōn allos tis elegen; Tis se katestēsen archonta kai dikastēn eph᾽ hēmas? kai hōs teichos ta hydata enthen kai enthen diastēsanta kai hōs di᾽ erēmou xēras ton laon agēochota kai bythisanta Pharaō kai tous Aigyptious kai pantas tous par᾽ autōn met᾽ autōn, ton glykananta pēgēn autois dia xylou kai ek petras akrotomou proagagonta autois hydōr dipsōsin, ton ex ouranou mannodotēsanta autois kai ex aeros kreodotēsanta, ton stylon pyros en nykti eis phōtismon kai hodēgian parechomenon autois kai stylon nephelēs eis skiasmon hēmeras dia ton ex hēliou phlogmon, ton nomon theou ek stomatos kai cheiros kai graphēs theou en plaxi lithinais kekolammenon paraschomenon autois teleiou arithmou dekalogon, hǭ ho theos enōpios enōpiǭ hōmilei, hōsei tis lalēsai pros heautou philon., peri hou eipen; Kai ouk anestē prophētēs hōs Mōsēs. toutǭ epanestēsan hoi Koreitai kai hoi Rhoubēlitai, kai lithous ebalon kata tou Mōseōs proseuchomenou kai legontos; , Mē proschę̄s eis tēn thysian autōn, kai ophtheisa hē doxa tou theou tous men eis gēn katēnenken, tous de pyri katephlexen, kai houtōs tous archēgous tēs planēs tou schismatos legontas; Dōmen archēgon heautois, Ēnoixen hē gē to stoma autēs kai katepien autous kai tas skēnas autōn kai tēn aposkeuēn autōn, kai katēlthon eis hądou zōntes, tous de Koreitas apōlesen dia pyros.

And before these another said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us?” … to him who had parted the waters on this side and that like a wall, and led the people as through a dry desert, and drowned Pharaoh and the Egyptians and all who were with them; who sweetened a spring for them by means of wood, and brought forth water for them from the sheer rock when they were thirsty; who gave them manna from heaven and meat from the air; who provided them with a pillar of fire at night for light and guidance and a pillar of cloud for shade by day because of the heat of the sun; who provided them with the law of God, from the mouth and hand and writing of God, engraved on tablets of stone, a decalogue of perfect number; “with whom God spoke face to face, as one would speak to his own friend”; of whom he said, “And there has not arisen a prophet like Moses.” [3.2] Against him the Korahites and the Reubenites rose up, and threw stones at Moses as he prayed and said, “Do not regard their sacrifice”; and the glory of God appeared and brought some down into the earth and burned up others with fire; and so the leaders of the error of the schism, who said, “Let us appoint a leader for ourselves”: “the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their tents and their belongings, and they went down alive into Hades; and the Korahites he destroyed by fire.”

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Exod 2:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 14:21–28 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 15:25 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 17:6 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 16:4 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 16:13 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 13:21 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 31:18 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 33:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 34:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 14:10 (allusion, medium confidence) · Num 16:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 14:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 16:32–33 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 16:35 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Moses, God's friend who worked wonders for Israel, was opposed by Korah and the Reubenites, whom the earth swallowed and fire consumed.

The opening of chapter 3 (on the virtues of Moses and the plagues of Egypt) is missing from the scan; “…” marks the gap, and the rest of the chapter sits inside this ref. “[3.2]” marks the section numeral printed in it.
Exod 2:14; 14:21–28; 15:25; 17:6; 16:4, 13; 13:21; 31:18; 33:11; Deut 34:10; Num 14:10; 16:15; 14:4; 16:32–35.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR slip; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: section number removed; Μωσῆς): " ,, Tic → · Τίς; ς“; → ς;; xol → καὶ; αἰτῶν → αὐτῶν; προἀγαγόντα → προαγαγόντα; χρεοδοτήσαντα → κρεοδοτήσαντα; δόηγίαν → ὁδηγίαν; σχιασμὸν → σκιασμὸν; χεκολαμμένον → κεκολαμμένον; ,,ᾧ → ᾧ; ν“. → ν.; sincv: , Καὶ → εἶπεν· Καὶ; Moos. 2. τούτῳ → Μωσῆς. τούτῳ; " ,, M, πρόσχῃς → · , Μὴ πρόσχῃς; ν“, → ν,; λέγοντας." ,ἀῶμεν → λέγοντας· Δῶμεν; “, ,,Ἴνοιξεν → , Ἤνοιξεν; γῇ τὸ → γῆ τὸ; σχηνὰς → σκηνὰς; ἀποσχευὴν → ἀποσκευὴν; (ov → ᾅδου; ς“. → ς..

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.2.7 (Funk 1:305–309; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-2-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Apostolic 6, chapter 4

6.4.1Funk 1:309

Εἰ οὖν τοῖς διὰ φιλαρχίαν ἀποσχίσασιν παραυτίκα θεὸς ἐπήγαγεν τὴν τιμωρίαν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον τοῖς αἱρέσεων ἀσεβῶν καθηγησαμένοις; οὐ σφοδροτέραν ἐπάξει τὴν τίσιν βλασφημοῦσιν αὐτοῦ τὴν πρόνοιαν ἢ τὴν δημιουργίαν;

Ei oun tois dia philarchian aposchisasin parautika theos epēgagen tēn timōrian, posǭ mallon tois haireseōn asebōn kathēgēsamenois? ou sphodroteran epaxei tēn tisin blasphēmousin autou tēn pronoian ē tēn dēmiourgian?

If, then, God at once brought punishment on those who split off out of love of rule, how much more on those who have led the way in ungodly heresies? Will he not bring a more severe penalty on those who blaspheme his providence or his creation?

Notes and citation

Summary: If schismatics were punished at once, heretics who blaspheme God's providence and creation will be punished more severely.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Ei oov → Εἰ οὖν; παραυτίχα → παραυτίκα.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.4.1 (Funk 1:309; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-4-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.4.2Funk 1:309

ἀλλ᾽ ὑμεῖς, ἀδελφοί, ἐκ τῆς γραφῆς παιδευόμενοι, φυλάσσεσθε μὴ ποιεῖν τὰ σχίσματα τῆς γνώμης μήτε μὴν τῆς ἑνώσεως ὑμῶν, ὅτι Oxoxol ἀπωλείας οἱ δόξης ἀθεμίτου ἄρξαντες καθίστανται τοῖς λαοῖς.

all᾽ hymeis, adelphoi, ek tēs graphēs paideuomenoi, phylassesthe mē poiein ta schismata tēs gnōmēs mēte mēn tēs henōseōs hymōn, hoti Oxoxol apōleias hoi doxēs athemitou arxantes kathistantai tois laois.

But you, brothers, instructed from the Scripture, guard against making schisms of opinion or of your union, because those who originate an unlawful opinion are set up as marks of destruction for the peoples.

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Summary: Those who originate false opinions lead the peoples to destruction.

The word rendered “marks” is garbled in the scan (Oxoxol, probably σκοποί); translated by sense.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ix → ἐκ .

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.4.2 (Funk 1:309; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-4-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.4.3Funk 1:309

ὁμοίως καὶ οἱ λαϊκοί, τοῖς τῇ γνώμῃ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐναντία δογματίσασιν μὴ πλησιάζετε μηδὲ κοινωνοὶ τῆς ἀσεβείας αὐτῶν γίνεσθε, λέγει γὰρ καὶ ὃ θεός· Ἀποσχίσθητε ἐκ μέσου τῶν ἀνδρῶν τούτων, ἵνα μὴ συναπόλησθε αὐτοῖς, καὶ πάλιν, Ἐξέλθετε ἐκ μέσου αὐτῶν, καὶ ἀφορίσθητε, λέγει κύριος, καὶ ἀκαθάρτου μὴ ἄπτεσθε, κἀγὼ εἰσδέξομαι ὑμᾶς.

homoiōs kai hoi laïkoi, tois tę̄ gnōmę̄ tou theou enantia dogmatisasin mē plēsiazete mēde koinōnoi tēs asebeias autōn ginesthe, legei gar kai ho theos; Aposchisthēte ek mesou tōn andrōn toutōn, hina mē synapolēsthe autois, kai palin, Exelthete ek mesou autōn, kai aphoristhēte, legei kyrios, kai akathartou mē aptesthe, kagō eisdexomai hymas.

Likewise you laity too, do not draw near to those who teach doctrines contrary to the mind of God, nor become partners of their impiety; for God also says, “Separate yourselves from the midst of these men, so that you do not perish with them,” and again, “Come out from their midst and be separated, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean, and I will receive you.”

Num 16:21 (quotation, medium confidence) · Num 16:26 (quotation, medium confidence) · 2 Cor 6:17 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The laity must keep away from those who teach against God's mind.

Quotations: Num 16:21, 26; 2 Cor 6:17.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: Funk's quotation marks removed; OCR: ano teleia read as a quotation mark): " ,, → · ; ς“, → ς,; ν", → ν,; xci → καὶ; ς“. → ς..

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Const. ap. 6.4.3 (Funk 1:309; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/constitutiones-apostolorum/5-14-1/#p-6-4-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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