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La Doctrine des Douze Apôtres (Didache)

XIV.

Réunissez-vous le jour dominical du Seigneur, rompez le pain et rendez grâces, après avoir d'abord confessé vos péchés, afin que votre sacrifice soit pur. [2] Celui qui a un différend avec son compagnon ne doit pas se joindre à vous avant de s'être réconcilié, de peur de profaner votre sacrifice, [3] car voici ce qu'a dit le Seigneur : « Qu'en tout lieu et en tout temps, on m'offre un sacrifice pur ; car je suis un grand roi, dit le Sei-gneur, et mon nom est admirable parmi les nations ».

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The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles

Chapter XIV. 1 --Christian Assembly on the Lord's Day.

1. But every Lord's day 2 do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, 3 that your sacrifice may be pure. 4 2. But let no one that is at variance 5 with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. 3. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice; 6 for I am a great King, saith the Lord, and my name is wonderful among the nations. 7

  1. Verses 1 and 3 are given substantially in Apostolic Constitutions, vii. 30. This chapter would seem to belong more properly before chap. viii.; but the same order of topics is followed in Apostolic Constitutions,--a remarkable proof of literary connection. ↩

  2. Comp. Rev. i. 10. Here the full form is kata kuriaken de Kurion. If the early date is allowed, this verse confirms the view that from the first the Lord's Day was observed, and that, too, by a eucharistic celebration. ↩

  3. Comp chap. iv. 14. No parallel in Apostolic Constitutions. ↩

  4. On this spiritual sense of "sacrifice," comp. Rom. xii. 1; Phil. ii. 17; Heb. xiii. 15; 1 Pet. ii. 5. ↩

  5. "That hath the (or, any) dispute" (amphibolian); comp. Matt. v. 23, 24. ↩

  6. [See Mal. i. 11. See Irenaeus, cap. xvii. 5, vol. i. [264]p. 484.] ↩

  7. Mal. i. 11, 14. Quoted in Apostolic Constitutions and by several Ante-Nicene Fathers, with the same reference to the Eucharist. ↩

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