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Didache 4.8

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

Summary: Share everything with fellow believers, as you share in immortal things.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:316

οὐκ ἀποστραφήσῃ τὸν ἐνδεόμενον, συγκοινωνήσεις δὲ πάντα τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου καὶ οὐκ ἐρεῖς ἴδια εἶναι· εἰ γὰρ ἐν τῷ ἀθανάτῳ κοινωνοί ἐστε, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ἐν τοῖς θνητοῖς;

English · Claude translation

You shall not turn away the needy, but you shall share all things with your brother and not say that they are your own. For if you are sharers in what is immortal, how much more in what is mortal?

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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.
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Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (enclitic should have no accent)): ἀδελφῷ σοῦ → ἀδελφῷ σου.

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