Didache 15.2

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

Summary: Honor your bishops and deacons.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:330

μὴ οὖν ὑπερίδητε αὐτούς· αὐτοὶ γάρ εἰσιν οἱ τετιμημένοι ὑμῶν μετὰ τῶν προφητῶν καὶ διδασκάλων.

So do not look down on them; for they are your honored ones, together with the prophets and teachers.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:330 · 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

Did. 15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/15/2/).

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Did. 15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/15/2/).