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The Didache, or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles

Chapter 15

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Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes

Appoint therefore for yourselves bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, meek men, and not lovers of money, and truthful and approved, for they also Seated to you the ministry of the prophets and teachers.

Therefore do not despise them, for they are Pons honourable men together with the prophets and teachers,

And reprove one another not in wrath but in peace as you find in the Gospel, and let none speak with any who has done a wrong to his neighbour, nor let him hear a word from you until he repents.

But your prayers and alms and all your acts perform as ye find in the Gospel of our Lord.

Trans. Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers, Volume I (Loeb Classical Library), 1912. Public domain.

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