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- Herausgeber: FV Éditions
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
The Didache was possibly written around 65 - 80 A.D. and is supposed to be what the twelve apostles taught to the Gentiles concerning life and death, church order, fasting, baptism, prayer, etc. There is debate as to its authenticity.
In the Babel of conflicting opinions, it is best to notice first the obvious internal phenomena. The first part of the Teaching (now distinguished as chaps. i.-vi.) sets forth the duty of the Christian; in chaps. vii.-x., xiv., we find a directory for worship; chaps. xi.-xiii., xv., give advice respecting church officers, extraordinary and local, and the reception of Christians; the closing chapter (xvi.) enjoins watchfulness in view of the coming of Christ, which is then described.
The most striking internal phenomena are, however, the correspondences of this document with early Christian writings, from a.d. 125 to the fourth century. With the so-called Epistle to Barnabas, chaps. xviii.-xx., the resemblances are so marked as to demand a critical theory which can account for them.
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The Didache : TEACHING of the TWELVE APOSTLES
And The Epistle of Barnabas
Translated byPhilip Schaff
Contents
Introductory Notice
1. The discovery of the codex, and its contents.
2. Publication of the discovered works: the effect.
3. Contents of teaching, and relation to other works.
4. Authenticity.
5. Time and place of composition.
The Didache : TEACHING of the TWELVE APOSTLES
1. The Two Ways; The First Commandment.
2. The Second Commandment: Gross Sin Forbidden.
3. Other Sins Forbidden.
4. Various Precepts.
5. The Way of Death.
6. Against False Teachers, and Food Offered to Idols.
7. Concerning Baptism.
8. Concerning Fasting and Prayer (the Lord’s Prayer).
9. The Thanksgiving (Eucharist).
10. Prayer After Communion.
11. Concerning Teachers, Apostles, and Prophets.
12. Reception of Christians.
13. Support of Prophets.
14. Christian Assembly on the Lord’s Day.
15. Bishops and Deacons; Christian Reproof.
16. Watchfulness; The Coming of the Lord.
The Epistle of Barnabas
Introductory Note to the Epistle of Barnabas
1. After the salutation, the writer declares that he would communicate to his brethren something of that which he had himself received.
2. The Jewish sacrifices are now abolished.
3. The fasts of the Jews are not true fasts, nor acceptable to God.
4. Antichrist is at hand: let us therefore avoid Jewish errors.
5. The new covenant, founded on the sufferings of Christ, tends to our salvation, but to the Jews’ destruction.
6. The sufferings of Christ, and the new covenant, were announced by the prophets.
7. Fasting, and the goat sent away, were types of Christ.
8. The red heifer a type of Christ.
9. The spiritual meaning of circumcision.
10. Spiritual significance of the precepts of Moses respecting different kinds of food.
11. Baptism and the cross prefigured in the Old Testament.
12. The cross of Christ frequently announced in the Old Testament.
13. Christians, and not Jews, the heirs of the covenant.
14. The Lord hath given us the testament which Moses received and broke.
15. The false and the true Sabbath.
16. The spiritual temple of God.
17. Conclusion of the first part of the epistle.
18. Second part of the epistle. The two ways.
19. The way of light.
20. The way of darkness.
21. Conclusion.
Introductory Notice
by Matthew Brown Riddle
Publication of the discovered works: the effect.
In 1875 Bryennios, who had been chosen Metropolitan of Serræ during his absence at the Old Catholic conference in Bonn, published at Constantinople the two Epistles of Clement, with prolegomena and notes; giving the text found in the Jerusalem Codex, as he termed it. All patristic scholars welcomed his work, which bore every mark of care and learning; showing the results of his contact, as a student, with German methods. Bishop Lightfoot and many others at once made use of this new material. The remaining contents of the Codex were named in the volume of Bryennios, and some interest awakened by the mention of the Teaching. The learned Metropolitan furnished new readings from other parts of the Codex to German scholars. At the close of 1883 he published in Constantinople the text of the Teaching, with prolegomena and notes. A copy of the volume was received in Germany in January, 1884; was translated into German, and published Feb. 3, 1884; translated from German into English, and published in America, Feb. 28, 1884; Archdeacon Farrar published (Contemporary Review) a version from the Greek in May, 1884. Before the close of the year the literature on the subject, exclusive of newspaper articles, covered fifty titles (given by Schaff) in Western Europe and America.
Contents of teaching, and relation to other works.
In the Babel of conflicting opinions, it is best to notice first the obvious internal phenomena. The first part of the Teaching (now distinguished as chaps. i.-vi.) sets forth the duty of the Christian; in chaps. vii.-x., xiv., we find a directory for worship; chaps. xi.-xiii., xv., give advice respecting church officers, extraordinary and local, and the reception of Christians; the closing chapter (xvi.) enjoins watchfulness in view of the coming of Christ, which is then described.
The amount of matter is not so great as that of the Sermon on the Mount.
