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3.1
Title
3.4
Rituals
greed, avarice, hypocrisy, maliciousness, arrogance, plotting evil against neighbors, hate, narcissism and expansions on these generally, with references to the words of
Jesus. Chapter 3 attempts to explain how one vice leads
to another: anger to murder, concupiscence to adultery,
and so forth. The whole chapter is excluded in Barnabas.
A number of precepts are added in chapter 4, which ends:
This is the Way of Life. Verse 13 states you must not
forsake the Lords commandments, neither adding nor
subtracting (see also Deut 4:2,12:32). The Way of Death
(chapter 5) is a list of vices to be avoided. Chapter 6 exhorts to the keeping in the Way of this Teaching:
See that no one causes you to err from this way
of the teaching, since apart from God it teaches
you. For if you are able to bear the entire yoke
of the Lord, you will be perfect; but if you are
not able to do this, do what you are able. And
concerning food, bear what you are able; but
against that which is sacriced to idols be exceedingly careful; for it is the service of dead
gods. (Roberts)
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ments late date, a position no longer current among scholars.
3.4.2 Fasting
Chapter 8 suggests that fasts are not to be on Monday
and Thursday with the hypocrites presumably nonChristian Jews but on Wednesday and Friday. Nor
must Christians pray with their Judaic brethren, instead
they shall say the Lords Prayer three times a day. The text
of the prayer is not identical to the version in the Gospel
of Matthew, and it is given with the doxology for Thine
is the power and the glory for ever. The Didache is the
main source for the inclusion of the doxology. It does not
occur within the oldest copies of the texts of Matthew and
Luke. Most biblical scholars agree that it was included as
a result of a later edit.
3.4.3 Eucharist
Chapter 9 concerns the Eucharist (thanksgiving):
5 SEE ALSO
The section beginning at 10.1 is a reworking of the Jewish
birkat ha-mazon, a three-strophe prayer at the conclusion
of a meal, which includes a blessing of God for sustaining the universe, a blessing of God who gives the gifts of
food, earth, and covenant, and a prayer for the restoration
of Jerusalem; the content is Christianized, but the form
remains Jewish.[31] It is similar to the Syrian Church eucharist rite of the Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari, belonging to a primordial era when the euchology of the
Church had not yet inserted the Institution Narrative in
the text of the Eucharistic Prayer.[32]
3.5 Resurrection
The Didache makes no mention of Jesus resurrection,
other than thanking for immortality, which Thou hast
made known unto us through Thy Son Jesus in the
eucharist,[33] but the Didache makes specic reference to
the resurrection of the just prior to the Lords coming.[34]
5 See also
Ancient Church Orders
Brotherly love (philosophy)
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Codex Hierosolymitanus
Gospel according to the Hebrews
Notes
[1] Strongs G1322 Didache: instruction (the act or the matter): doctrine, hath been taught.
[2] Draper, J. A. (2006). The Apostolic Fathers: The
Didache. The Expository Times 117 (5): 17781.
doi:10.1177/0014524606062770.
[3] Greek:
[4] Runus, Commentary on Apostles Creed 37 (as Deuterocanonical) c. 380; John of Damascus Exact Exposition
of Orthodox Faith 4.17; and the 81-book canon of the
Ethiopian Orthodox Church
[5] Athanasius, Festal Letter 39 (excludes them from the
canon, but recommends them for reading) in 367;
Rejected by 60 Books Canon and by Nicephorus in
Stichometria
[6] John Chapman (1913). "Didache". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
[7] Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3): Didache
[8] John A. T. Robinson, Redating the New Testament (SCM
Press 1976)
[9] Aaron Milavec, The Didache: faith, hope, & life of the
earliest Christian communities, 5070 C.E., p. vii
[10] Aaron Milavec in The Didache in context: essays on its text,
history, and transmission ed. Clayton N. Jeord p140141.
[11] Historia Ecclesiastica III, 25.
[12] Clement quotes the Didache as scripture. Durant, Will.
Caesar and Christ. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1972
[13] Greek: ,
Didach Kiriou dia tn ddeka apostoln
[14] Some translations Nations, see Strongs 1484
[15] Greek:
, Didach kyriou dia tn ddeka apostoln
tois ethnesin
[16] Aaron Milavec, The Didache: faith, hope, & life of the
earliest Christian communities, 5070 C.E., p. 110
[17] Aaron Milavec, The Didache: faith, hope, & life of the
earliest Christian communities, 5070 C.E., p. 271
[18] The Didache or Teaching of the Apostles, trans. and ed.,
J. B. Lightfoot, 7:2,5
[19] In the cited reference (Aaron Milavec, p. 271), the Didache verse (But let no one eat or drink of this eucharistic thanksgiving, but they that have been baptized into the
name of the Lord, The Didache or Teaching of the Apostles, trans. and ed., J. B. Lightfoot, 9:10) is erroneously
indicated as 9:5
[20] Acts 3:13 describes Jesus as : a boy (as often beaten
with impunity), or (by analogy) a girl, and (generally) a
child; specically a slave or servant (especially a minister
to a king; and by eminence to God): child, maid (-en),
(man) servant, son, young man Strongs G3817
[21] Aaron Milavec, The Didache: faith, hope, & life of the
earliest Christian communities, 5070 C.E., p. 368
[22] Holmes, Apostolic Fathers
[23] Aaron Milavec The Didache: faith, hope, & life of the
earliest Christian 2003 p252 citing Wendell Willis It is
interesting, nonetheless, that both Paul and the Didache
take a exible approach save when it comes to eating food
sacriced to idols. Paul makes use of the phrase table of
demons ( 1 Cor 10:21).
[24] Bigg, C. (1904). Notes on the Didache. I: On Baptism by
Ausion. The Journal of Theological Studies (20): 579
84. doi:10.1093/jts/os-V.20.579.
[25] Bigg, C. (1904). Notes on the Didache. II: On Certain
Points in the First Chapter. The Journal of Theological
Studies (20): 5849. doi:10.1093/jts/os-V.20.584.
[26] Bigg, C. (1905). Notes on the Didache. The Journal
of Theological Studies (23): 4115. doi:10.1093/jts/osVI.23.411.
[27] Valeriy A. Alikin The earliest history of the Christian gathering Brill 2010 ISBN 978-90-04-18309-4 p110 "...practice of a particular community or group of communities.29 However, the Didache basically describes the same
ritual as the one that took place in Corinth. This is probable for several reasons. In both cases, the meal was a community supper that took place on Sunday evening where
the participants could eat their ll, rather than purely
a symbolic ritual.30 Also in both cases the meal began
with separate benedictions over the bread and wine (Mark
14:2225 par.)..
[28] 1 Corinthians 11:2325, Mark 14:2225, Matthew
26:2629, Luke 22:1420
[29] Rev. 22:1720 reads, The Spirit and the Bride say,
'Come,' And let the one who hears say, 'Come.' And let
the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take
the water of life without price. / I warn everyone who
hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone
adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described
in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of
the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in
the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in
this book. / He who testies to these things says, 'Surely
I am coming soon.' Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!" (English
Standard Version). I Cor. 16:22 reads, If anyone has no
love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!
[Greek Maranatha]" (ESV).
EXTERNAL LINKS
References
Van de Sandt, H.W.M (2005). Matthew and the
Didache: two documents from the same JewishChristian milieu?. Royal Van Gorcum/Fortress.
ISBN 978-90-232-4077-8.
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Greek text in Latin alphabet from Universitt Bremen
Didache text in Greek from CCEL
Eight English translations; Greek text; Nine Commentaries; and Overview of the Didache by Early
Christian Writings Church Fathers
Draper, Jonathan A (1996). The Didache in modern research:an overview. Brill. ISBN 978-90-0410375-7.
"Didach, The".
ed.). 1911.
Milavec, Aaron (2003). The Didache: text, translation, analysis, and commentary. Liturgical Press.
ISBN 978-0-8146-5831-4.
Milavec, Aaron (2003). The Didache: faith, hope,
& life of the earliest Christian communities, 5070
CE. Paulist Press. ISBN 978-0-8091-0537-3.
Del Verme, Marcello (2004). Didache and Judaism:
Jewish roots of an ancient Christian-Jewish work.
T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-02531-9.
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