Didache 12.1

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

Summary: Welcome travelers in the Lord's name, but test them.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:328

Πᾶς δὲ ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου δεχθήτω· ἔπειτα δὲ δοκιμάσαντες αὐτὸν γνώσεσθε, σύνεσιν γὰρ ἕξετε δεξιὰν καὶ ἀριστεράν.

English · Claude translation

Let everyone who comes in the name of the Lord be received; and then, when you have tested him, you will know him, for you will have understanding of right and left.

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:328 · 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.

Scripture

Ps 118:26 (117:26 LXX) · echo, low confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

“Right and left”: true and false.

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Did. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/12/1/).

Plain text

Did. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/12/1/).

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