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Didache 13

Doctrine of the Apostles

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But every true prophet desiring to settle among you is worthy of his food.

2In like manner a true teacher is also worthy, like the workman, of his food.

3Every firstfruit then of the produce of the wine-vat and of the threshing-floor, of thy oxen and of thy sheep, thou shalt take and give as the firstfruit to the prophets; for they are your chief-priests.

4But if ye have not a prophet, give them to the poor.

5If thou makest bread, take the firstfruit and give according to the commandment.

6In like manner, when thou openest a jar of wine or of oil, take the firstfruit and give to the prophets;

7yea and of money and raiment and every possession take the firstfruit, as shall seem good to thee, and give according to the commandment.

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About Didache

A handbook of the Christian community from the end of the 1st century: the two ways, how to baptise, how to pray, how to celebrate the eucharist and how to spot a prophet who is in it for himself. English text: The Apostolic Fathers, Didache, J. B. Lightfoot, 1891 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Apostolic Fathers, Didache, J. B. Lightfoot (1891) · public domain