Didache 12.4

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

Summary: Find work for settlers without a trade.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:328

εἰ δὲ οὐκ ἔχει τέχνην, κατὰ τὴν σύνεσιν ὑμῶν προνοήσατε, πῶς μὴ ἀργὸς μεθʼ ὑμῶν ζήσεται Χριστιανός.

But if he has no craft, use your understanding to provide that no Christian lives among you idle.

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

Did. 12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/12/4/).

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Did. 12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/12/4/).