a. Structure b. How to pray (8.2-3)
Introduction 1. Structure and Genre a. How to fast (8.1) b. How to pray (8.2-3) 2. On the Eucharist (9.1—10.7) a. Prayers for the full meal (9.1-5) b. Prayer of thanksgiving (Eucharist) (10.1-7)
III. The church order (11.1—15.4) a. Structure This document, which is approximately the length of Paul's letter to the Galatians,1 consists of four clearly sep arate sections. It begins (I) with a fairly long tractate that can be called the "Tractate on the Two Ways," from its opening words (1.1—5.2). It concludes with an epilogue
(6.1) and a short addition (6.2-3). In 7.1 the reader learns after the fact that the Sitz im Leben of this tractate
1. Transition (11.1-2) 2. On the reception of itinerant apostles and prophets (11.3-12) a. Introduction (11.3) b. On itinerant apostles (11.4-6) is baptismal instruction. This part (which may according ly be designated baptismal catechesis) is followed (II) by a lengthy section that announces itself as a ritual or set of instructions for action (liturgy) by its rubrical notes, c. On itinerant prophets (11.7-12) 3. First appendix: On the reception of other traveling brothers and sisters (12.1-5) a. Reception and testing of new arrivals (12.1) b. Travelers passing through (12.2) c. Persons newly arrived who desire to remain
7repl 8e rod fiamLapaToc, ("on baptism," 7.1), and irepl 8e rrjg ei)xapiOTtag ("on the Eucharist," 9.1). Then fol lows (III) a section whose content shows it to be a church order (11.1-15.4). The whole document concludes (IV) with an eschatological epilogue, consisting of a short eschatological parenesis (16.1-2) and a brief apocalypse
(16.3-8).2
(12.3-5) 4. Second appendix: On the duty to support prophets who desire to remain in the community, and duties toward teachers (13.1-7) a. Fundamental principles (13.1-2) b. Directions for action (13.3-7) 5. On confession and reconciliation (14.1-3)
6. On the election of bishops and deacons (15.1-2) 7. On church discipline (15.3-4) The detailed outline of the writing is as follows:
The Title I. Baptismal catechesis: The Tractate on the Two Ways (1.1-6.3) 1. Statement of the theme (1.1) 2. The way of life (1.2—4.14) a. The fundamental commandment and introduc
IV. Eschatological conclusion (16.1-8) 1. Eschatological parenesis (16.1-2) 2. The apocalypse (16.3-8) a. The appearance of false prophets and the col tion to its performance (1.2-3a) b. The sectio evangelica (1.3b—2.1) lapse of the Christian community (16.3-4a) b. The appearance of the Antichrist (16.4b-d) c. A list of prohibitions (2.2-7) d. The "teknon" sayings (3.1-6) e. The "anawim" sayings (3.7-10) c. The great apostasy and the preservation of the f. Rules for life in society (4.1-11) g. Epilogue on the "way of life" (4.12-14) faithful (16.5) d. The revelation of the three signs of the truth
3. The way of death (5.1-2) a. Introduction (5.1a) b. Catalog of vices (5. lb-2) (16.6-7) e. The arrival of the Kyrios (16.8) c. Final admonition (5.2c) 4. Epilogue (6.1) and appendix (6.2-3) II. The liturgy (7.1—10.7) b. Genre It is immediately apparent that the document is a generically mixed composition. Each individual part (tractate on the "ways," liturgy, church order in the narrower sense, apocalypse) belongs to a different literary genre
1. On baptism (7.1-4) la. Addition: On fasting and prayer (8.1-3) 1 Schaff, Church Manual, 23. Kyrios), another short passage on the judgment of 2 The conclusion of the book in the Bryennios manuthe world must have followed. On this, also, see script has unfortunately been lost. More will be said below. about this below. After 16.8 (the arrival of the