Sophia Scriptura

Didache 6.3

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

Summary: Keep food rules as you can, but never eat food offered to idols.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:318

περὶ δὲ τῆς βρώσεως, ὃ δύνασαι βάστασον· ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ εἰδωλοθύτου λίαν πρόσεχε· λατρεία γάρ ἐστι θεῶν νεκρῶν.

English · Claude translation

And concerning food, bear what you are able; but keep strictly away from food offered to idols, for it is worship of dead gods.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:318 · 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 on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent); punctuation slip in the digital text (missing raised dot)): ὅ δύνασαι → ὃ δύνασαι; πρόσεχε λατρεία → πρόσεχε· λατρεία.

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Did. 6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/6/3/).

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