Sophia Scriptura

Didache 9.5

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

Summary: Only the baptized may share in the Eucharist.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:322

μηδεὶς δὲ φαγέτω μηδὲ πιέτω ἀπὸ τῆς εὐχαριστίας ὑμῶν, ἀλλʼ οἱ βαπτισθέντες εἰς ὄνομα κυρίου· καὶ γὰρ περὶ τούτου εἴρηκεν ὁ κύριος· Μὴ δῶτε τὸ ἄγιον τοῖς κυσί.

English · Claude translation

Let no one eat or drink from your Eucharist except those who have been baptized in the name of the Lord; for concerning this also the Lord has said, “Do not give what is holy to the dogs.”

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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, Baptism

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Did. 9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/9/5/).

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