Didache 3.5

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

Summary: Lying and love of money lead to theft.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:312–314

τέκνον μου, μὴ γίνου ψεύστης, ἐπειδὴ ὁδηγεῖ τὸ ψεῦσμα εἰς τὴν κλοπήν, μηδὲ φιλάργυρος μηδὲ κενόδοξος· ἐκ γὰρ τούτων ἁπάντων κλοπαὶ γεννῶνται.

My child, do not be a liar, since lying leads to theft; nor a lover of money nor vain, for from all these, thefts are born.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:312–314 · 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: Ethics

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): ψεύστης. ἐπειδὴ → ψεύστης, ἐπειδὴ.

Did. 3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/3/5/).

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Did. 3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/3/5/).