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Didache 4.14

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

Summary: Confess your sins in the assembly and pray with a clean conscience.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:316

ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ ἐξομολογήσῃ τὰ παραπτώματά σου, καὶ οὐ προσελεύσῃ ἐπὶ προσευχήν σου ἐν συνειδήσει πονηρᾷ· αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ ὁδὸς τῆς ζωῆς.

English · Claude translation

In the assembly you shall confess your transgressions, and you shall not come to your prayer with an evil conscience. This is the way of life.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:316 · 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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Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

  • “In the assembly” (ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ): in the gathered church; compare Jas 5:16.

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