# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 106: Asher 4

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/106 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**106:1** For good men, even they that are single of face, though they be thought by them that are double-faced to err, are just before God.

**106:2** For many in killing the wicked do two works, an evil by a good; but the whole is good, because he hath uprooted and destroyed that which is evil.

**106:3** One man hateth him that showeth mercy, and doeth wrong to the adulterer and the thief: this, too, is double-faced, but the whole work is good, because he followeth the Lord’s example, in that he receiveth not that which seemeth good with that which is really bad.

**106:4** Another desireth not to see good days with them that riot, lest he defile his mouth and pollute his soul: this, too, is double-faced, but the whole is good, for such men are like to stags and to hinds, because in a wild condition they seem to be unclean, but they are altogether clean; because they walk in a zeal for God, and abstain from what God also hateth and forbiddeth by His commandments, and they ward off the evil from the good.

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