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The Didache
Anonymous (early Christian community) · Christianity · c. 50-120 CE
Translated by Philip Schaff et al. (1886)
16 chapters
The "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles" — the earliest known Christian manual of Church order and practice, nearly lost to history and rediscovered in 1873.
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Contents
- 1Chapter 1: The Two Ways; The First Commandment
- 2Chapter 2: The Second Commandment: Gross Sin Forbidden
- 3Chapter 3: Other Sins Forbidden
- 4Chapter 4: Various Precepts
- 5Chapter 5: The Way of Death
- 6Chapter 6: Against False Teachers, and Food Offered to Idols
- 7Chapter 7: Concerning Baptism
- 8Chapter 8: Concerning Fasting and Prayer (the Lord’s Prayer)
- 9Chapter 9: The Thanksgiving (Eucharist)
- 10Chapter 10: Prayer After Communion
- 11Chapter 11: Concerning Teachers, Apostles, and Prophets
- 12Chapter 12: Reception of Christians
- 13Chapter 13: Support of Prophets
- 14Chapter 14: Christian Assembly on the Lord’s Day
- 15Chapter 15: Bishops and Deacons; Christian Reproof
- 16Chapter 16: Watchfulness; The Coming of the Lord
