Didache 12.2

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

Summary: Help travelers, but only for two or three days.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:328

εἰ μὲν παρόδιός ἐστιν ὁ ἐρχόμενος, βοηθεῖτε αὐτῷ, ὅσον δύνασθε· οὐ μενεῖ δὲ πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἰ μὴ δύο ἢ τρεῖς ἡμέρας, ἐὰν ᾖ ἀνάγκη.

If the one who comes is a traveler, help him as much as you can; but he shall not stay with you more than two or three days, if necessary.

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.
Topics: Ethics

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): δύο ἡ τρεῖς → δύο ἢ τρεῖς; ἑὰν ᾖ → ἐὰν ᾖ.

Did. 12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/12/2/).

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Did. 12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/12/2/).