Didache 2.6

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

Summary: Do not be greedy, hypocritical, or arrogant, or plot against your neighbor.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:312

οὐκ ἔσῃ πλεονέκτης οὐδὲ ἅρπαξ οὐδὲ ὑποκριτὴς οὐδὲ κακοήθης οὐδὲ ὑπερήφανος. οὐ λήψῃ βουλὴν πονηρὰν κατὰ τοῦ πλησίον σου.

You shall not be greedy or grasping or a hypocrite or malicious or arrogant. You shall not plot evil against your neighbor.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:312 · 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. 2.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/2/6/).

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Did. 2.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/2/6/).