Didache
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- proper noun
- Literature
- Along with St. Ignatius, the Didache (an early Christian manual of sorts) shows that this term (The Lord's Day) was used early on to designate the day when Christians gathered to celebrate the Eucharist.
- water in the Didache
Examples
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The Didache, written in the first half of the second century, says this: "God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves."
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The Didache ("The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles") ca. 110 AD.
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Read the Didache, written by the 12 apostles as a 'primer', teaching tool.
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Harnack began by making an argument against Sohm based on the image of the Church he himself had drawn mainly from the Didache.
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Finally, as I have already suggested, it sits at odds with the reality of my classroom, where many of my students want to know how the baptism we see in the Didache became what they see in their own churches today.
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The Teaching of the Apostles (The Didache), 11. (Betenson's translation, Early Christian Fathers, 51).
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Both the Didache and Justin Martyr's Apology relate this practice (and it was why the service was later called "Mass," from ite, misse est).
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The author of the Didache (c. 70-110) appears to conflate the term 'apostles' with 'prophets,' implying that the line between the two was beginning to blur, making two offices into one.
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The Didache is an important early Christian document that outlines teachings about baptism and church practices.
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Scholars often refer to the Didache to understand the moral instructions provided to early Christian communities.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Didache comes from a Greek word didache meaning 'teaching' and is like the English word didactic, which is also about teaching. So the Didache is an early Christian book of instructions meant to teach people how to live and pray.