Sophia Scriptura

Didache 9.2

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

Summary: The thanksgiving over the cup.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:322

πρῶτον περὶ τοῦ ποτηρίου· Εὐχαριστοῦμέν σοι, πάτερ ἡμῶν, ὑπὲρ τῆς ἁγίας ἀμπέλου Δαυεὶδ τοῦ παιδός σου, ἧς ἐγνώρισας ἡμῖν διὰ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ παιδός σου· σοὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας.

English · Claude translation

First, concerning the cup: “We give you thanks, our Father, for the holy vine of David your servant, which you made known to us through Jesus your Servant. To you be the glory forever.”

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:322 · 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
Eucharist, Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

  • The cup comes before the bread (compare Luke 22:17–19).
  • “Servant” (παῖς): also “Child”; see Mart. Pol. 14.1.
  • “The holy vine of David”: perhaps the promise to David fulfilled in Christ, or God's people.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): ἦς ἐγνώρισας ἡμῖν διὰ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ παιδός σου· σοὶ → ἧς ἐγνώρισας ἡμῖν διὰ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ παιδός σου· σοὶ.

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Did. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/9/2/).

Plain text
Did. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/9/2/).

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