Didache
Anonymous
Didache. The Apostolic Fathers with an English translation In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Lake, Kirsopp, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1912.
Be not one who stretches out his hands to[*](Against meanness) receive, but shuts them when it comes to giving.
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whatsoever thou hast gained by thy hands thou shalt give a ransom for thy sins.Thou shalt not hesitate to give, nor shalt thou grumble when thou givest, for thou shalt know who is the good Paymaster of the reward.
Thou shalt not turn away the needy, but shalt share everything with thy brother, and shalt not say that it is thine own, for if you are sharers in the imperishable, how much more in the things which perish?
Thou shalt not withhold thine hand from thy[*](Household duties) son or from thy daughter, but thou shalt teach them the fear of God from their youth up.
Thou shalt not command in thy bitterness thy slave or thine handmaid, who hope in the same God, lest they cease to fear the God who is over you both; for he comes not to call men with respect of persons, but those whom the Spirit has prepared.
But do you who are slaves be subject to your master, as to God’s representative, in reverence and fear.