Sophia Scriptura

Didache 4.3

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

Summary: Make peace and judge fairly.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:314

οὐ ποθήσεις σχίσμα, εἰρηνεύσεις δὲ μαχομένους· κρινεῖς δικαίως, οὐ λήψῃ πρόσωπον ἐλέγξαι ἐπὶ παραπτώμασιν.

English · Claude translation

You shall not desire division, but you shall make peace between those who are fighting. You shall judge justly; you shall not show partiality in reproving transgressions.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:314 · 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.
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Did. 4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/4/3/).

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