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1 | Nothing Illegal or Blameworthy | Deut 12:32 | DocTrinsograce | 243749 | ||
"The Didache is in two or three parts. The first part draws heavily from the gospels and follows the 'two-ways' ethical tradition of Proverbs and the Psalms. It quotes and elaborates subtly upon the Sermon on the Mount, which elaborations (e.g., substituting 'fasting' for blessing one's enemies) seem to locate it more in the 2nd century than the first. The second part of the work is a fairly detailed account of the early Christian practice of baptism (by effusion) and the Lord's Supper. ... The third part is a brief apocalyptic section. Naturally, there is much discussion among scholars about the source criticism and how to relate the three aspects of the document to each other. "The Didache was not indifferent about abortion nor does it hesitate to list abortion (and infanticide) with other gross violations of the natural and moral law: murder, adultery, pederasty, sexual immorality, magic and sorcery, coveting, perjury, greed, and conspiracies (2:1–7). The pagans were known to try to induce abortions, which the Didache prohibits. It is hard to imagine the author of the Didache announcing that he is personally opposed to abortion but supported it as a matter of public policy any more than they would say the same about murder of adults, pederasty, and the like. "The moral rigor of the Didache is also in contrast to the way some late-modern Christians speak about sexual ethics generally. "I am impressed again this term with the emphasis the Apostolic Fathers (e.g., 1 Clement, Ignatius, and Didache) place on what we might call orthodox Christian ethics. In some of the authors, e.g., Didache, ethical exhortation is not well grounded in the gospel but in others, e.g.,Polycarp, Barnabas, and Ad Digonetum, it is. "Still, it has been a persistent question: why such a strong emphasis on ethics among the early Christian writers? Part of the answer is that much was outside their control but their behavior was within their control. Another part of the answer is that one way the Christians distinguished themselves from the surrounding pagan culture was to adhere strictly to the biblical moral teaching. Reports from some of their pagan interrogators (e.g., Pliny the Younger) suggest that they really were regarded as morally blameless before the watching world. Thus, Justin Martyr invited scrutiny from the pagan authorities because he was confident that they would find nothing illegal or blameworthy among the Christians." --Dr. Robert Scott Clark (2016) or Westminster Seminary California (See https://www.wscal.edu/academics/faculty/r-scott-clark) Note: You can read the "Didache: the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles" at the following link: https://carm.org/didache |
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2 | Nothing Illegal or Blameworthy | Deut 12:32 | EdB | 243750 | ||
Always interesting. Notice the emphasis on fasting, something rarely mentioned in today's church. Authorship aside it contains principals that every Christian should strive to live by. Sad so many ignore those principals in the name of societal changes. |
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3 | Nothing Illegal or Blameworthy | Deut 12:32 | DocTrinsograce | 243752 | ||
Thank you, Ed... What struck me the most about that discussion was the last paragraph. The early church fathers' emphasis on ethics, even to the point of inviting scrutiny of the lives of Christians as apologetic evidence. That is both a powerful provocation to piety, and an awesome attestation to the achievement of our Lord's atonement. As the old aphorism goes: Christianity is observable! In Him, Doc |
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