Sophia Scriptura

Didache 4.4

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

Summary: Do not waver in doubt.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:314

οὐ διψυχήσεις, πότερον ἔσται ἢ οὔ.

English · Claude translation

You shall not be double-minded about whether it will be or not.

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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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Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • The meaning is uncertain: perhaps doubt about whether God's judgment will come, or whether a prayer will be answered (compare Jas 1:6–8).

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Did. 4.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/4/4/).

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