Good quotes from the Didache

[angellous_evangellous]

My translation of Didache 2.7

"You will not hate any person, but some you will rebuke, some you will pray for, and some you will love as your own soul."

I just think that the rhetoric of this verse is beautiful.

 

[.lava]

My translation of Didache 2.7

"You will not hate any person, but some you will rebuke, some you will pray for, and some you will love as your own soul."

I just think that the rhetoric of this verse is beautiful.

do you think each one is separated from the others?...like, 'you' would not pray for the ones you rebuke..



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[angellous_evangellous]

do you think each one is separated from the others?...like, 'you' would not pray for the ones you rebuke..



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I think that rhetorically they are parts of the whole - the "some" are parts of the "all humanity."

I think the point is that we love everyone according to our relationship with them: we rebuke those in sin, we pray for those who persecute us, and love our neighbor/enemy. The author is recalling specific biblical commands in the NT.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

My translation of Didache 4.1

"My children, remember night and day the one who spoke the word of God to you, for where the lordship is spoken, there the Lord is."