Didache 3.10

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

Summary: Accept what happens as good, since nothing happens without God.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:314

τὰ συμβαίνοντά σοι ἐνεργήματα ὡς ἀγαθὰ προσδέξῃ, εἰδὼς ὅτι ἄτερ θεοῦ οὐδὲν γίνεται.

Accept the things that happen to you as good, knowing that apart from God nothing happens.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:314 · 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. 3.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/3/10/).

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Did. 3.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/3/10/).