Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 23

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7, page 434, footnote 10 (Image)

Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, 2 Clement, Early Liturgies

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (HTML)

Book IV (HTML)

Sec. I.—On Helping the Poor (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2945 (In-Text, Margin)

VI. Now the bishop ought to know whose oblations he ought to receive, and whose he ought not. For he is to avoid corrupt dealers, and not receive their gifts. “For, a corrupt dealer shall not be justified from sin.” For of them it was that Isaiah reproached Israel, and said, “Thy corrupt dealers mingle wine with water.” He is also to avoid fornicators, for “thou shall not offer the hire of an harlot to the Lord.”[Deuteronomy 23] He is also to avoid extortioners, and such as covet other men’s goods, and adulterers; for the sacrifices of such as these are abominable with God. Also those that oppress the widow and overbear the orphan, and fill prisons with the innocent, and abuse their own servants ...