Testament of Our Lord

tr. Cooper and Maclean, 1902

17. Book I, Chapter 17

But to us also Jesus said:—Because that ye also have asked Me concerning the rule ecclesiastical, I deliver and make known to you how ye ought to order and command him who standeth at the head of the Church, and to keep the perfect and just and most excellent rule, in which My Father who hath sent Me is well pleased. Verily I say unto you, that he who knoweth the power of this commandment and of this testament, and doeth according to those things which are written therein, shall be made like¹ unto the angels who praise My Father, and shall be holy unto God.

But My Father is mediator,² and all His host, that if their sins are as the sand of the sea[shore] which cannot be numbered,³ and any of them, understanding these words, shall do them, these sins shall be forgiven him, and he shall live in Me.

Notes

Or: shall be like. There is a reminiscence of St. Luke xx. 36 (?).
Or: arbiter.
Jer. xxxiii. 22 (order altered and words applied to an altogether different object).