Didache 16.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:332

αὐξανούσης γὰρ τῆς ἀνομίας μισήσουσιν ἀλλήλους καὶ διώξουσι καὶ παραδώσουσι, καὶ τότε φανήσεται ὁ κοσμοπλανὴς ὡς υἱὸς θεοῦ, καὶ ποιήσει σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα, καὶ ἡ γῆ παραδοθήσεται εἰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ, καὶ ποιήσει ἀθέμιτα, ἃ οὐδέποτε γέγονεν ἐξ αἰῶνος.

English · Claude translation

For as lawlessness increases, they will hate one another and persecute and betray; and then the deceiver of the world will appear as a son of God, and will do signs and wonders, and the earth will be delivered into his hands, and he will commit lawless deeds such as have never been done since time began.

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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.

Scripture

Matt 24:12 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 24:10 · allusion, medium confidence
Matt 24:24 · allusion, medium confidence
2 Thess 2:9 · allusion, medium confidence
Rev 13:13 · echo, medium confidence

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Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): ἅ οὐδέποτε → ἃ οὐδέποτε.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:332

English · Claude translation

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