1 I swear to you, my children, but I swear not by any oath, neither by heaven nor by earth, nor by any other creature which God created.
2 The Lord said: There is no oath in me, nor injustice, but truth.
3 If there is no truth in men, let them swear by the words, Yea, yea, or else, Nay, nay.
4 And I swear to you, yea, yea, that there has been no man in his mother’s womb, but that already before, even to each one there is a place prepared for the repose of that soul, and a measure fixed how much it is intended that a man be tried in this world.
5 Yea, children, deceive not yourselves, for there has been previously prepared a place for every soul of man.
My notes:
This book is an Apocryphal book. But the law against swearing is found both in the Gospels and here. Reading and writing about holiness in the abstract is of little use — you and I must try to perfect ourselves. Incrementally change and one day you’d be a person close to God.
Image: Thanks for the Image.
