ፍትሐ ነገሥት (Law of the Kings — Legal Code of the Ethiopian Empire)

send, the holy and the teachers.
They shall keep all that I have commanded
you, and I will be with
you until the end of the
world. And [it is] certain is his name,
they shall not exist forever
to the world. And know
then, as he himself knew in
this word regarding those who
come after them, and
he gives to the teachers
their own, and they shall struggle with
this in all, to Him be praise, and
that which he commanded to him, I say to
all, and because of this
it became this canon, the completion
of the gathering, the holy, and the learned
holy fathers, the wise,
as I said to you, the High
Priests of Rome, and Basil,
the Bishop of Caesarea,
and those who resemble them
among the High Priests of
Alexandria, and all it became
the desire for the spreading, and the completion
of the Apostles, it is
the established
preaching only, as said
Paul the Apostle, and I
collected together regarding

the faith and the commandment of life,
it is all until the world.
Mighty, peaceful, the perfection of
works which were established within
the cities for the scholars.
For those who live,
people, toward the power of the kingdom,
they do not completely sprout for them
canons separated in the strict judgment
for the debtors, and the long-held are forgotten,
and those who think toward the power
of the calling, they do not establish for them
their own judgment. And for those who
forbid the love of the world
and what is within it, there does not enter
for them an order of the prophet
and profit. And also in its place,
establishing the works, the bodily,
because as the commandment, it is
desired [that] they judge by it, the rulers
over people in that which was spoken
in the law, the first, which is
the Torah, as it was established in the
chapter of his own. And because of this,
Peter the Apostle said in the 13
commandments, from the 75 brotherly
books, they teach you regarding
that which remained of the commandments, and we
also tell you what we were commanded
therein, and he made it the foundation

toward the law, the completion. And there remained
the perfect rebukes of the works
which are within the spiritual,
which is fitting for the sensible [person] so that
he may command his soul in it, which does not
fit for the rulers to judge
by it, as the rebukes of
the minds, and the characters, and
the callings which are within, and
not that which is done
in the nights, which is the
evil. For this rebuke,
the latter, is found in it
the completion of the man who learned
in his soul, and acted in the doing of
his works, the spiritual
and the bodily. For the soul
is that which disciplines
the body, and when
he is rebuked from the mind
and became perfect, he is rebuked
[by] his works, those
which are done in that which lacks
faith, in that which weakens,
which is the body,
for it is as the vessel
of drink for the soul, and
he was established in his completion,
this book, which is
fitting for the scholars so that