# Didache 16.4

- Author: Anonymous
- Work: [Didache](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/) (*Doctrina duodecim apostolorum*)
- Date: ca. 50–150 (often ca. 100) (disputed)
- Source: Lake, LCL 24:332; 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 (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/16/4/

Summary: The world-deceiver will appear as a son of God, doing signs and wonders.

## Greek text

αὐξανούσης γὰρ τῆς ἀνομίας μισήσουσιν ἀλλήλους καὶ διώξουσι καὶ παραδώσουσι, καὶ τότε φανήσεται ὁ κοσμοπλανὴς ὡς υἱὸς θεοῦ, καὶ ποιήσει σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα, καὶ ἡ γῆ παραδοθήσεται εἰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ, καὶ ποιήσει ἀθέμιτα, ἃ οὐδέποτε γέγονεν ἐξ αἰῶνος.

## English translation (Claude)

For as lawlessness increases, they will hate one another and persecute and betray; and then the deceiver of the world will appear as a son of God, and will do signs and wonders, and the earth will be delivered into his hands, and he will commit lawless deeds such as have never been done since time began.

## Scripture references

- Matt 24:12: allusion, high confidence
- Matt 24:10: allusion, medium confidence
- Matt 24:24: allusion, medium confidence
- 2 Thess 2:9: allusion, medium confidence
- Rev 13:13: echo, medium confidence

## Citation (SBL)

Did. 16.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/16/4/).