Sophia Scriptura

Didache 3.9

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

Summary: Be humble and keep company with the humble.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:314

οὐχ ὑψώσεις σεαυτὸν οὐδὲ δώσεις τῇ ψυχῇ σου θράσος. οὐ κολληθήσεται ἡ ψυχή σου μετὰ ὑψηλῶν, ἀλλὰ μετὰ δικαίων καὶ ταπεινῶν ἀναστραφήσῃ.

English · Claude translation

You shall not exalt yourself, nor give your soul boldness. Your soul shall not join itself to the lofty, but you shall live with the righteous and the humble.

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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.
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