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Apostolic Church Order 20

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6By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.' Let them be proved in every service, all the people bearing witness to them, that they have resided with one wife, have brought up rfOWAypAIffA., and one of them should become a hypocrite like one wasting away, *qX*, with a gangrene. OYft I^rf* ItXOKlJUtA.CIA., after he has been proved by a great trial. nGTOYAgoY Jtcuuq 'tkgoyi ^.g on GepoY$c*c &xH 4>A.Terf rugiaui GTOYmpA^m jljuuuuoy their children well, being humble, prudent, meek, sober, quiet*; not vehement, nor murmurers; not double tongued, nor wrathful, for wrath destroy eth the wise ; nor hypocrites. They shall not afflict the poor, neither shall they accept the person of the rich ; they shall not be drinkers of much wine, being ready to act in every good service in secret. Cheerful in their habitations, constraining the brethren who have, that they should open their hand to give. And they also being givers, the goods being in common, that the people may honour them with all honour, and all fear, beseeching with great earnestness those who walk in dissimulation. And some they should teach, and some they should rebuke, but the rest they should prohibit. But let those who despise, and the contumelious, be cast out, knowing that all men who are vehement, or slanderers, fight against Christ."

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