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Kirsopp Lake’s two-volume Loeb Classical LibraryTM edition of the Apostolic Fathers. This edition contains the English introductions and translations.

right cheek, turn to him the other cheek also,” and thou wilt be perfect. “If any man impress thee to go with him one mile, go with him two. If any man take thy coat, give him thy shirt also. If any man will take from thee what is thine, refuse it not”—not even if thou canst.1 5 Give to everyone that asks thee, and do not refuse, for the Father’s will is that we give to all from the gifts we have received. Blessed is he that gives according to the mandate; for he is innocent. Woe to him who receives;
Volume 1, Pages 311–313