Sophia Scriptura

Didache 4.1

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

Summary: Honor the one who teaches you God's word as you would the Lord.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:314

Τέκνον μου, τοῦ λαλοῦντός σοι τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ μνησθήσῃ νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας, τιμήσεις δὲ αὐτὸν ὡς κύριον· ὅθεν γὰρ ἡ κυριότης λαλεῖται, ἐκεῖ κύριός ἐστιν.

English · Claude translation

My child, you shall remember night and day the one who speaks the word of God to you, and you shall honor him as the Lord; for where the Lord's lordship is spoken of, there the Lord is.

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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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Notes

Translation notes

  • “Lordship” (κυριότης): what belongs to the Lord, his authority and teaching.

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