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Quick start

  1. Choose a book and chapter using the picker at the top.
  2. Read the Berean Standard Bible text in the main column.
  3. Hover a verse number in the passage to open a manuscript list and timeline.
  4. Click a verse number or use “Full verse page” for GA lookup, commentary, Greek tools, and (on ECM books) textual apparatus.
  5. Click any manuscript siglum (e.g. 01, P46) to open its catalog record.

This book

The “Teaching of the Twelve Apostles” — a brief manual on the Two Ways, baptism, Eucharist, and church order. Some ancient lists treat the Didache as Scripture or as a catechetical appendix to Scripture. Its practical church rules made it influential in canon and liturgy debates.

The chapter view is for reading and quick manuscript discovery. Hover verse superscripts for a preview; open the verse page for full lists, timelines, and analysis tools.

Extrabiblical text

Extrabiblical writings are listed separately from the 27 NT books. Each includes a public-domain English translation plus a scholarly witness catalog — Greek papyri and codices, major versional witnesses, and inventory cross-links (LDAB, Trismegistos, P.Oxy).

Witnesses are drawn from standard scholarly catalogs (CPG, LDAB, Repertorium Kirchenväter-Papyri, and related inventories). Each entry is tagged Verified, Approx., or Tradition to show how confidently it is identified. Where fragment coverage is known, the list narrows by section — but this is still not a full critical apparatus, and scholarly totals often exceed our catalogued list.

Witness lists come from our extrabiblical catalog (Firestore + bundled JSON). Each entry is tagged Verified, Approx., or Tradition. Where fragment coverage is documented — especially for Hermas, Didache, and Thomas — the list narrows by section. Versional witnesses without unit data still appear at every address. Counts are catalogued witnesses, not the full scholarly total.

Sources

English text: Berean Standard Bible (helloao API). NT manuscript catalog and apparatus: Münster NTVMR. Extrabiblical catalog: scholarly inventories with bundled JSON + Firestore. Pre-indexed lists enable fast hover; apparatus XML is fetched live on ECM verse pages.

Extrabiblical · canon discussions

The “Teaching of the Twelve Apostles” — a brief manual on the Two Ways, baptism, Eucharist, and church order.

Some ancient lists treat the Didache as Scripture or as a catechetical appendix to Scripture. Its practical church rules made it influential in canon and liturgy debates.

English text: Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1891). Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Didache_(Lightfoot_translation). Reading text is a public-domain English translation for orientation — not a critical edition of the Greek or Coptic original.

Witnesses are drawn from standard scholarly catalogs (CPG, LDAB, Repertorium Kirchenväter-Papyri, and related inventories). Each entry is tagged Verified, Approx., or Tradition to show how confidently it is identified. Where fragment coverage is known, the list narrows by section — but this is still not a full critical apparatus, and scholarly totals often exceed our catalogued list.

Didache 3Extrabiblical writings are listed separately from the 27 NT books. Each includes a public-domain English translation plus a scholarly witness catalog — Greek papyri and codices, major versional witnesses, and inventory cross-links (LDAB, Trismegistos, P.Oxy).

Open verse
Full workspaceDidache 3:1

Hover a verse number in the passage to open a manuscript list and timeline. Open the workspace for GA lookup and the sample witness list — not every surviving manuscript.

1My child, flee from every evil and everything that resembleth it.2Be not angry, for anger leadeth to murder, nor jealous nor contentious nor wrathful;3for of all these things murders are engendered.4My child, be not lustful, for lust leadeth to fornication, neither foul-speaking neither with uplifted eyes;5for of all these things adulteries are engendered.6My child, be no dealer in omens, since it leads to idolatry, nor an enchanter nor an astrologer nor a magician, neither be willing to look at them;7for from all these things idolatry is engendered.8My child, be not a liar, since lying leads to theft, neither avaricious neither vainglorious;9for from all these things thefts are engendered.10My child, be not a murmurer, since it leadeth to blasphemy, neither self-willed neither a thinker of evil thoughts;11for from all these things blasphemies are engendered.12But be meek, since the meek shall inherit the earth.13Be long-suffering and pitiful and guileless and quiet and kindly and always fearing the words which thou hast heard.14Thou shalt not exalt thyself, neither shalt thou admit boldness into thy soul.15Thy soul shall not cleave together with the lofty, but with the righteous and humble shalt thou walk.16The accidents that befal thee thou shalt receive as good, knowing that nothing is done without God.