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Didache 4.13

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

Summary: Keep the Lord's commandments without adding or subtracting.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:316

οὐ μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς ἐντολὰς κυρίου, φυλάξεις δὲ ἃ παρέλαβες, μήτε προστιθεὶς μήτε ἀφαιρῶν.

English · Claude translation

You shall not forsake the commandments of the Lord, but you shall keep what you have received, neither adding nor taking away.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:316 · 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.
Scripture
Topics
Scripture and canon

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Did. 4.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/4/13/).

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