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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: 9 of 16
url: https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/9/
cite: "The Twelve Apostles (attributed), tr. J. B. Lightfoot, The Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, section 9. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/9/"
---

# 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.

## 9. Chapter 9

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/9/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/9/#p-N

[¶0] But as touching the eucharistic thanksgiving give ye thanks thus. First, as regards the cup: We give Thee thanks, O our Father, for the holy vine of Thy son David, which Thou madest known unto us through Thy Son Jesus; Thine is the glory for ever and ever. Then as regards the broken bread: We give Thee thanks, O our Father, for the life and knowledge which Thou didst make known unto us through Thy Son Jesus; Thine is the glory for ever and ever. As this broken bread was scattered upon the mountains and being gathered together became one, so may Thy Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Thy kingdom; for Thine is the glory and the power through Jesus Christ for ever and ever. But let no one eat or drink of this eucharistic thanksgiving, but they that have been baptized into the name of the Lord; for concerning this also the Lord hath said: Give not that which is holy to the dogs.