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Didache - Kirsopp Lake historical English (1912; 1919 reprint transcription)

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Didache - Kirsopp Lake historical English (1912; 1919 reprint transcription)
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Didache front:1

The Lord's teaching to the heathen by the Twelve Apostles.

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Recorded completeness: All supplied 16 chapters, 100 verses and authorial title; ancient textual completeness unverified. Available reading sections are listed below.

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Classification: Early Christian literature
Edition type: Translation
Original language (catalog): Ancient source language(s)
Reading language: English
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Governed review state: Unreviewed

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Edition source: Didache - Kirsopp Lake; Wikisource revision 14662157

Provenance: Didache (The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles), translated by Kirsopp Lake. The Apostolic Fathers (1912 translation); Wikisource identifies its source as the December 1919 reprint, pp. 305-333. Digital transcription: Wikisource contributors, revision 14662157, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/14662157. Historical translation is public domain in the United States; Wikisource contributions and this normalized transcription are provided under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Changes: HTML entities decoded, whitespace normalized, verse markers converted into references; source sidebars and ten original footnotes retained separately in provenance/raw evidence, not inserted into the reading body. All 100 verses and the authorial title match the retained and freshly retrieved Wikisource revision. Historical English, not HSLT or HSRT. Independent print fidelity and ancient completeness are unverified; not Human Sealed. No endorsement implied or additional license restrictions.

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