{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010087.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010087.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010087.htm","text":"Knowing, then, that \u201cGod is not mocked,\u201d 365 we ought to walk worthy of His commandment and glory. In like manner should the deacons be blameless before the face of His righteousness, as being the servants of God and Christ, 366 and not of men. They must not be slanderers, double-tongued, 367 or lovers of money, but temperate in all things, compassionate, industrious, walking according to the truth of the Lord, who was the servant 368 of all. If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live 369 worthily of Him, \u201cwe shall also reign together with Him,\u201d 370 provided only we believe. In like manner, let the young men also be blameless in all things, being especially careful to preserve purity, and keeping themselves in, as with a bridle, from every kind of evil. For it is well that they should be cut off from 371 the lusts that are in the world, since \u201cevery lust warreth against the spirit;\u201d 372 and \u201cneither fornicators, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God,\u201d 373 nor those who do things inconsistent and unbecoming. Wherefore, it is needful to abstain from all these things, being subject to the presbyters and deacons, as unto God and Christ. The virgins also must walk in a blameless and pure conscience.\nComp. 1 Tim. iii. 8.\n34:368\nComp. Matt. xx. 28.\n34:369\n\u03a0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03c4\u03b5\u03c5\u03c3\u03ce\u03bc\u03b5\u03b8\u03b1, referring to the whole conduct; comp. Phil. i. 27.\n34:370 34:371\nSome read, \u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03ba\u03cd\u03c0\u03c4\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9, \u201cto emerge from.\u201d [So Chevallier, but not Wake nor Jacobson. See the note of latter, ad loc.]\n34:372 34:373\n1 Cor. 6:9, 10.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: POLYCARP: Chapter V.\u2014The duties of deacons,...","type":"page"}