Testament of Our Lord

tr. Cooper and Maclean, 1902

14. Book I, Chapter 14

I have told you these things, therefore, that wherever ye go, ye may test the souls that are holy,¹ and tell them those things which are fitting and right, and those things which are about to be, and all those things which, before I was² glorified, I gave you in commandment,³ so that believing [them] they may truly live. From henceforth shall be the beginning of travail,⁴ and the mystery of destruction. Turning therefore to the Church, setting right, duly ordering, and arranging, and doing all things in uprightness and holiness, speak to every man as is helpful to him, so that your Father which is in heaven may be glorified.⁵ Be ye wise, that ye may persuade those who are in captivity to error,⁶ and those who are sunk in ignorance, that coming to the knowledge of⁷ God, and living piously and purely, they may praise My Father and your God.⁸

Notes

Lit.: holy souls.
Lit.: should be.
Lit.: commanded you.
St. Matt. xxiv. 8; St. Mark xiii. 8.
St. Matt. v. 16.
Or: who lead captive into error.
Lit.: knowing.
Cf. St. John xx. 17. Copto-arab.: My Father who is your Father, and my God who is your God.