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The Didache
From www.thedidache.com
The Didache (circa 96 A.D.) was known as The Lord's teaching to the heathen by the Twelve Apostles.
Background
The Didache (from a Greek word related to "doctrine," "didactic," etc.), which was revised over time into varying forms at various places, seems to have been a sort of church manual for primitive [early] Christians, probably in rural areas dependent mostly on itinerant ministers.
The only known complete Didache in Greek is said to be the CodexHierosolymitanusGreek, which was first published by Bryennios in 1883. The Greek Oxyrhynchus Papyrus No. 1782, dating from the late 4th century, contained fragments of a codex that preserved Didache 1:3b-4a and 2:7b to 3:2a in slightly variant and expanded form. A Coptic fragment from the 5th century contains Didache 10:3b through 12:1b,2a, and appends a prayer for oil at 10:8.
A 19th-century manuscript preserved at Constantinople contains a complete Georgian version of the Didache, the translation of which may be as early as the 5th century. It lacks Didache 1:5-6 and 13:5-7. The title includes the words "written in the year 90 or 100 after the Lord Christ." Although never published, readings were made available in 1931.
The Greek "Apostolic Constitutions" has many references to the Didache, re-worked with additional Scriptures and other traditions, as does the Ethiopic "Ecclesiastical Canons of the Apostles." Arabic versions both add and subtract from the Didache. Several writers (Eusebius, about 325 A.D., and Athanasius of Alexandria in a letter of 367, etc.,) and lists from the beginning of the 4th century and onward refer to a writing known as the "Teaching" or "Teachings" of the Apostles, but inasmuch as nothing is specifically cited, we cannot be sure if the references are to the document we know today as the Didache. Our present version of the ancient Didache is a reliable guide to help us understand the conduct code of the earliest Christian community. from: http://ministries.tliquest.net/theology/apocryphas/nt/didache.htm
The church at Antioch was the successor to the Jamesian Christians that fled before the sack of Jerusalen in 70 AD to Pella. They quoted and treated The Didache as acripture:
the church at Antioch quoted and treated The Didache and 1st Clement as “scripture,” and rejected 2 Peter, 2 & 3 John, Jude, and Revelation. The Church at Alexandria also rejected most of those books, but accepted Jude and also Barnabas.
In 367, St. Athanasius of Alexandria listed all of the current New Testament books in his Paschal Letter, but continued to quote The Didache as authoritative for the Church.
Whiston's Apostolic Constitutions
https://archive.org/details/workclaimingtobe00whisuoft https://archive.org/details/bib_fict_4656316
Links
- prophecytoday.uk/study/resources/item/1457-the-didache.html
- www.destinyimage.com/blog/dennis-and-jenn-clark-discovered-lost-teaching-of-the-apostles-didache
- books.google.com/books/about/The_Didache.html?id=6jGeDAAAQBAJ
- http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/didache-roberts.html
Although the Didache has been known of since early christianity, it was only recently "found" in Constantinople in the library of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, after having been overlooked for 1800 years, in a Codex of documents called CodexHierosolymitanusGreek. In the "find" are other documents linking it directly the CodexSinaticusGreekFraud, such as the copy of the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermes. So we cannot be sure that the Greek Hierosolymitanus codex is not somehow a part of that fraud - perhaps related to its Letters of Ignatius of Antioch.
Unfortunately, although it is referred to often by early church writers, it is quoted rarely, or they haven't survived, so it's difficult to validate the Didache in Codex Hierosolymitanus.
Although this is unfortunate we will accept it as is for now, because of its great beauty and its great simplicity. It leads to a Christian Community wil a very different flavour than the Church.
JWO Videos
- **1Cor. 9:7 **: Paul conflicts with (Matt. 10:8-9) and the Didache 2tdSsbo2AjU.mp4
- 1Tim. 5:17: Paul conflicts with (Matt. 10:8-9) and the Didache 2tdSsbo2AjU.mp4