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The DidacheCodex ISO Edition 017 · The Complete Surviving Text · Charles H. Hoole, 1894
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The Didache

Codex ISO Edition 017 · The Complete Surviving Text · Charles H. Hoole, 1894

The Didache moves from the two paths of life and death into instruction on baptism, fasting, prayer, the Eucharist, travelling teachers, prophets, communal worship, bishops, deacons and final vigilance. This edition retains all sixteen chapters and eighteen citation notes without adding modern verse numbers or an inferred ending.

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Context without the mythology.

Codex ISO separates the surviving evidence from later interpretation, so you can encounter the text without being told what to believe about it first.

01 / Historical context

A sixteen-chapter early Christian teaching manual preserved in Greek in the eleventh-century Codex Hierosolymitanus. This edition prints Hoole's complete surviving 1894 English translation.

02 / Why it matters

Read the complete surviving Hoole translation with the manuscript record and later interpretation kept separate.

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““There are two paths, one of life and one of death, and the difference is great between the two paths.””
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The Didache: Date, Contents and the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles

A chapter-by-chapter guide to the Didache, its manuscript witness, debated date, Two Ways teaching, baptism, fasting, Eucharist and community order.

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What is The Didache?

The Didache moves from the two paths of life and death into instruction on baptism, fasting, prayer, the Eucharist, travelling teachers, prophets, communal worship, bishops, deacons and final vigilance. This edition retains all sixteen chapters and eighteen citation notes without adding modern verse numbers or an inferred ending.

What survives of The Didache?

A sixteen-chapter early Christian teaching manual preserved in Greek in the eleventh-century Codex Hierosolymitanus. This edition prints Hoole's complete surviving 1894 English translation.

Where can I read The Didache?

Codex ISO Edition 017 is a source-aware digital PDF edition available on this page for £1.99.

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