Didache 13.6

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

Summary: Give the firstfruit of wine and oil to the prophets.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:328

ὡσαύτως κεράμιον οἴνου ἢ ἐλαίου ἀνοίξας, τὴν ἀπαρχὴν λαβὼν δὸς τοῖς προφήταις·

Likewise when you open a jar of wine or oil, take the firstfruit and give it to the prophets.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:328 · 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.
Topics: Church office

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): οἴνου ἡ ἐλαίου → οἴνου ἢ ἐλαίου.

Did. 13.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/13/6/).

Plain text

Did. 13.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/13/6/).