Didache 11.9

Anonymous · Didache · ca. 50–150 (often ca. 100) · place unknown · Read in context

Summary: A prophet who orders a meal “in the Spirit” and eats it is false.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:326

καὶ πᾶς προφήτης ὁρίζων τράπεζαν ἐν πνεύματι οὐ φάγεται ἀπʼ αὐτῆς, εἰ δὲ μήγε ψευδοπροφήτης ἐστί.

And no prophet who orders a meal in the Spirit shall eat from it; if he does, he is a false prophet.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:326 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 308–333 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.
Topics: Church office

“Orders a meal” (ὁρίζων τράπεζαν): perhaps a meal for the poor, called for in ecstatic speech.

Did. 11.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/11/9/).

Plain text

Did. 11.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/11/9/).