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Didache 11.10

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

Summary: A prophet who does not practice what he teaches is false.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:326

πᾶς δὲ προφήτης διδάσκων τὴν ἀλήθειαν, εἰ ἃ διδάσκει οὐ ποιεῖ, ψευδοπροφήτης ἐστί.

English · Claude translation

Every prophet who teaches the truth, if he does not do what he teaches, is a false prophet.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:326 · 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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  • Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): οὐ ποιεῖ. ψευδοπροφήτης → οὐ ποιεῖ, ψευδοπροφήτης.

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Did. 11.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/11/10/).

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Did. 11.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/11/10/).

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