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The Didache
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
The early Church · 1st–2nd century
A short handbook from the first generations of Christians: the way of life and the way of death, how to baptize, fast and pray, and how to keep the Eucharist.
It was lost for centuries until a copy turned up in a library in Constantinople in 1873.
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About this edition
Translated by Isaac H. Hall and John T. Napier (1884), in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7 (1886).
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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