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The Sinodos

Section 3

Statute 2. Said Yuhanes : O brethren, we know that we shall be examined about all that was given to us ; and that therefore we should not accept the person of anyone who is with us. And if there should be one who is with him, who says what is not seemly, he shall be reproved because what he says is not good. And they caused Yuhanes to speak first Said Yuhanes, that there are two separate places, one for life and one for death. Between these two places is separation : and the place of life is this, that thou shouldst love the Lord thy God and thy creator with all thy heart and praise him, because he saved thee from death. This is the first commandment ; the second however is this, that thou shouldst love thy companion as thyself : in this is all the law and the prophets, O my beloved.

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Text. The Rev. G. Horner, The Statutes of the Apostles, 1904. Public domain by age. Horner's English of the Ge'ez Sinodos he prints in the same volume, recovered from the scan by the word coordinates rather than by its plain OCR. Not audited: no independent reference counts exist for this text. His own numbering is kept, including the two statutes he numbers 40.