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Didache 16.1

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

Summary: Be ready, for the Lord's coming is unknown.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:332

Γρηγορεῖτε ὑπὲρ τῆς ζωῆς ὑμῶν· οἱ λύχνοι ὑμῶν μὴ σβεσθήτωσαν, καὶ αἱ ὀσφύες ὑμῶν μὴ ἐκλυέσθωσαν, ἀλλὰ γίνεσθε ἕτοιμοι· οὐ γὰρ οἴδατε τὴν ὥραν, ἐν ᾗ ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν ἔρχεται.

English · Claude translation

Keep watch over your life. Let your lamps not go out, and let your loins not be ungirded, but be ready; for you do not know the hour in which our Lord is coming.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:332 · 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.
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Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): τὴν ὤραν → τὴν ὥραν.

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Did. 16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/16/1/).

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