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title: "The Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles"
author: "The Twelve Apostles (attributed)"
translator: "J. B. Lightfoot"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Church Fathers"
section: 13 of 16
url: https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/13/
cite: "The Twelve Apostles (attributed), tr. J. B. Lightfoot, The Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, section 13. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/13/"
---

# The Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles

*The Twelve Apostles (attributed), tr. J. B. Lightfoot*

A very early Christian manual on the two ways, baptism, the Eucharist and church order.

## 13. Chapter 13

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/13/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/13/#p-N

[¶0] But every true prophet desiring to settle among you is worthy of his food. In like manner a true teacher is also worthy, like the workman, of his food. Every 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. But if ye have not a prophet, give them to the poor. If thou makest bread, take the firstfruit and give according to the commandment. In like manner, when thou openest a jar of wine or of oil, take the firstfruit and give to the prophets; yea and of money and raiment and every possession take the firstfruit, as shall seem good to thee, and give according to the commandment.