Lake Apostolic Fathers 2 - Bible Translation

THE SHEPHERD, sim. v. iii. 6-iv. i
evil word, and from every evil desire and purify your
heart from all the vanities of this world. If you
keep these things, this f:ist shall be perfect for
you. 7. And you shall do thus : After completing
what has been written, in that day on which you fast
you shall taste nothing except bread and water, and
you shall reckon the price of the expense for that
day which you are going to keep, of the foods which
you would have eaten, and you shall give it to a
widow or an orphan or to some one destitute, and
you shall thus be humble-minded that through your
humility he who receives it may fill his soul and pray
to the Lord for you. 8. If then you thus fulfil the
fast as I commanded you, your ^ sacrifice shall be
acceptable to God,' and this fast shall be written
down to your credit, and the service which is
thus done is good and joyful and acceptable to
the Lord. 9. You shall therefore keep these things
thus with your children and all your house, and
if you keep them you shall be blessed, and all
who hear them and keep them shall be blessed
and shall obtain from the Lord whatever they ask."
IV.
1. I DEsouGHT him much to explain to me the The
applioiition
parable of the field and the master and the vineyard o^^JJf
and the servant who fenced the vineyard, and theP'^^^®^
r IT 111 J ' to the
fences, and the weeds which were pulled up from the servant
vineyard, and the son, and the friends the counsellors.
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