Didache 3.6

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

Summary: Grumbling leads to blasphemy.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:314

τέκνον μου, μὴ γίνου γόγγυσος, ἐπειδὴ ὁδηγεῖ εἰς τὴν βλασφημίαν, μηδὲ αὐθάδης μηδὲ πονηρόφρων· ἐκ γὰρ τούτων ἁπάντων βλασφημίαι γεννῶνται.

My child, do not be a grumbler, since it leads to blasphemy; nor self-willed nor evil-minded, for from all these, blasphemies are born.

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

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing); punctuation slip at the end of the section in the digital text): ἀπάντων → ἁπάντων; γεννῶνται, → γεννῶνται..

Did. 3.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/3/6/).

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Did. 3.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/3/6/).