Sophia Scriptura

Didache 4.9

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

Pseudonymous: Its title presents it as 'the teaching of the Lord through the twelve apostles'; it was compiled by unknown authors from earlier material. It was rediscovered in 1873 in a manuscript of 1056 (Codex Hierosolymitanus) and published in 1883.

Summary: Discipline your children and teach them the fear of God from youth.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:316

Οὐκ ἀρεῖς τὴν χεῖρά σου ἀπὸ τοῦ υἱοῦ σου ἢ ἀπὸ τῆς θυγατρός σου, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ νεότητος διδάξεις τὸν φόβον τοῦ θεοῦ.

English · Claude translation

You shall not withhold your hand from your son or your daughter, but from their youth you shall teach them the fear of God.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:316 · 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
Text
As printed in Lake, LCL 24. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
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.
Compare
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7 (1886) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • “Not withhold your hand”: that is, do not neglect to discipline or train them.

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Did. 4.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/4/9/).

Plain text
Did. 4.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/4/9/).

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