Chapter 27

1BEHOLD, beloved brethren, we giv good counsel, that ye keep far from impure edi ad hearing of songs, and from dainty meats and luxury and from all works of vanity wherein is no profit Work not the pleasure of the desire of your flesh on the Sabbath day, for the prophet saith, ‘Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice unto Him with trembling.” ? For it beseemeth not a Christian to listen to singing and music and playing on instruments, as the foolish people do. And moreover, let them not take on their lips the names of the (falsé) gods and idols, nor name the name of Satan and his angels,* for, when they name his name, the Holy Spirit departeth from them, and in His stead an unclean spirit abideth on them. ;