Didache, title

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:308

Διδαχὴ κυρίου διὰ τῶν δώδεκα ἀποστόλων τοῖς ἔθνεσιν.

The Teaching of the Lord through the Twelve Apostles to the Gentiles.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:308 · 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.

The only complete manuscript (Jerusalem, 1056) gives two titles: “Teaching of the Twelve Apostles” and this longer one, which heads the text itself.

Did. 0 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/0/).

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Did. 0 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/0/).