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customary to happen. The Saviour, it says, when he saw her and observed
that they were ready to stone her said to those who were about to cast
stones: He who has not sinned let him take a stone and cast it. If anyone is
conscious in himself of not having sinned, let him take a stone and smite
her. And no one dared. Since they knew in themselves and perceived that
they themselves were guilty in some things, they did not dare to strike her.
(Didymus the Blind,Comm. Eccl. .,–).
Version C, NIV
TheteachersofthelawandthePhariseesbroughtinawomancaught
in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus,
“Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law
Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”
They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for
accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground
with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened
up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first
to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the
ground.Atthis,thosewhoheardbegantogoawayoneatatime,the
older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing
there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they?
Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither
do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of
sin.”
. Even anointed prophets sinned
[Andinthesamevolume[IntheGospelaccordingtotheHebrewswhich
was written in the Chaldaic and Syriac language but with Hebrew letters,
and is used up to present day by the Nazarenes, I mean that according to
the Apostles, or, as many maintain, according to Matthew, which Gospel
is also available in the Library of Caesarea]]:
If your brother, he said, sinned to you with a word and makes amends to
you, accept him seven times a day. Simon his disciple said him: Seven times
aday?TheLordansweredandsaidtohim:AndIsaytoyouuntilseventy
times seven. For even among the prophets after they were anointed with the
Holy Spirit there was found a word of sin.(Jerome,Pelag..;Parallelsin
Cod. and .)