Sophia Scriptura

Didache 16.5

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

Summary: Many will fall away in the final testing, but those who endure will be saved.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:332

τότε ἥξει ἡ κτίσις τῶν ἀνθρώπων εἰς τὴν πύρωσιν τῆς δοκιμασίας, καὶ σκανδαλισθήσονται πολλοὶ καὶ ἀπολοῦνται, οἱ δὲ ὑπομείναντες ἐν τῇ πίστει αὐτῶν σωθήσονται ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ καταθέματος.

English · Claude translation

Then the human creation will come into the fire of testing, and many will fall away and perish; but those who endure in their faith will be saved by the curse itself.

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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 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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Notes

Translation notes

  • “By the curse itself” (ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ καταθέματος): obscure. Perhaps Christ, who became a curse for us (Gal 3:13); others translate “from the curse itself.”

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Did. 16.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/16/5/).

Plain text
Did. 16.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/16/5/).

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