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AS OTHERS SAW HIM.

"Thou shalt not forswear thyself, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not revile, thou shalt not bear malice.

"Thou shalt not be double-minded nor double-tongued; for duplicity of tongue is a snare of death.

"Thy speech shall not be false nor vain.

"Thou shalt not be covetous, nor an extortioner, nor a hypocrite, nor malignant, nor haughty. Thou shalt not take evil counsel against thy neighbor.

"Thou shalt hate no man, but some thou shalt rebuke, and for some thou shalt pray, and some thou shalt love above thine own soul.

"My child, flee from all evil, and from all that is like unto it.

"Be not soon angry, for anger leadeth to murder; nor given to party-spirit, nor contentious, nor quick-tempered, for from all these are generated murders.

"My child, be not lustful, for lust leadeth to fornication; neither be a filthy talker, nor a lifter-up of the eyes, for from all these things are generated adulteries.

"My child, be not thou an observer of birds, for it leadeth to idolatry; nor a