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The Apostolic Age · c. 90–110

The Didache

Didache ton dodeka apostolon

Anonymous

What it is

A short manual of Christian practice for a congregation still finding its footing: the Two Ways of life and death, then plain instructions for baptism, fasting, the eucharistic prayers, and how to tell a true travelling prophet from a freeloader.

Why it lasted

The earliest surviving description of how Christians actually worshipped, written while the apostolic generation was barely gone. Lost for centuries and recovered in 1873, it reset what historians thought the first-century church looked like.

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Where to read it

This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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