What Shall We Do? The Community Rules 395 events (Ch. 16) (9). The members of the community were mainly the convicted Jews, so they continued to keep the Mosaic Law for the reason that reading the whole Hebrew Canon was not countered to their relationship with Jesus. This aspect of the positive Jewish tradition unveils the fact that the Didache-people interpreted the “Torah of Messiah” in a Christian sight of hope (10). If the above two groups of Qumran and Didache themselves designed and practised their own community axiom for the continuity of the religious societies, the fact that the Thomas Logia of Jesus includes a form of regulations for its own commitment to the foundation, should not be denied or ignored. 1. The Family Rules In this respect, many words of the Thomasine Jesus display the limitations of the community faith or life. The conditional terminologies of “peta (whoever)”, “ÿotan (when)”, “e... ¯an (if)”, “tre (let)” and “¯ante (until)”, have joined with the standard of the community rules. Firstly, the relationship between “p•rvme Ó•ÿ¨lo (the old man)” and “ou•kouei Ó•¯hre ¯hm (a small child)” (11), in a family concept, is quite similar to the precept of loving “pek•son (your brother)” (12), although it seems to have a spiritual meaning to the complier of the text (13). The rule of the brotherhood is repeatedly emphasised in the following Logion, for example, “When you cast the beam out of your own eye, then you will see clearly to cast the mote (9) According to ideological readers, the text can also be divided in various ways. D. BURKETT, An Introduction to the New Testament and the Origins of Christianity (Cambridge 2002) 396-403. (10) The Prayer of the Lord (Did 8,2), false prophets (Did 11,3), correcting another (Did 15,3), and alms, prayers, and fasting (Did 15,4) are similar to Matt 6,9-13, 7,15; 5,21-22 and 6,1-6. This paper will not explore this area further. See J.A. DRAPER, “The Jesus Tradition in the Didache”, Gospel Perspectives. The Jesus Tradition Outside the Gospels (ed. D. WENHAM) (Sheffield 1985) V, 269- 287. W. RORDORF, “Does the Didache Contain Jesus Tradition Independently of the Synoptic Gospels?”, Jesus and the Oral Gospel Tradition (ed. H. WANSBROUGH) (JSNTSS 64; Sheffield 1991) 394-423. (11) Logion 4. (12) Logion 25. (13) This Logion relates the standard of one’s self-consciousness and the experiential world of those for whom Thomas was proposed. H.-J. KLAUCK, The Religious Context of Early Christianity. A Guide to Graeco-Roman Religions (Edinburgh 2000) 112.