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INTRODUCTION
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It remains to trace chronologically the various sources from which the Didache seems to have been compiled. The doctrine of the Two Ways is first found in Christian literature at the conclusion of the Epistle of Barnabas, which may date perhaps as early as 79 a.d., though the majority of critics place it about the beginning of the second century. "Let us pass on," he says, "to another method of knowledge and teaching. There are two paths

    i.e. Petri), e quibus unus Actorum eius inscribitur, alius Evangelii, tertius Prædicationis, quartus Apocalypseos, quintus Iudicii, inter apocryphas scripturas repudiantur."

    The former, the Teaching or Teachings of the Apostles, is mentioned in the following passages in Eusebius and Athanasius:—

    Euseb., HE. iii. 25, 4, 5. ἐν τοῖς νόθοις κατατετάχθω καὶ τὡν Παύλου πράξεων ἡ γραφή, ὅ τε λεγόμενος Ποιμὴν καὶ ἡ ἀποκάλυψις Πέτρου καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ἡ φερομένη Βαρνάβα ἐπιστολὴ καὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων αἱ λεγόμεναι Διδαχὰι· ἔτι τε, ὡς ἔφην, ἡ Ἰωάννου ἀποκάλυψις, εἰ φανείη, ἥν τινες, ὡς ἔφην, ἀθετοῦσιν, ἕτεροι δὲ ἐγκρίνουσι τοῖς ὁμολογουμένοις. ἤδη δ’ ἐν τούτοις τινὲς καὶ τὸ καθ’ Ἑβραίους εὐαγγέλιον κατέλεξαν, ᾧ μάλιστα Ἑβραίων οἱ τὸν Χριστον παραδεξάμενοι χαίρουσι. ταῦτα μὲν πάντα τῶν ἀντιλεγομένων ἂν εἴη.

    Athanasius, Opp. i. 2, 963. ἕνεκά γε πλείονος ἀκριβείας προστίθημι καὶ τοῦτο γράφων ἀναγκαίως, ὡς ὅτι ἔστι καὶ ἕτερα βιβλία τούτων ἕξωθεν, οὐ κανονιζόμενα μέν, τετυπωμένα δὲ παρὰ τῶν πατέρων αναγινώσκεσθαι τοῖς ἄρτι προσερχομέντος καὶ βουλομένους κατηχεῖσθαι τὸν τῆς εὐσεβείας λόγον· Σοφία Σολομῶντος καὶ Σοφία Σιράχ καὶ Εσθὴρ καὶ Ιουδὶθ καὶ Τοβίας καὶ Διδαχὴ καλουμένη τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ Ποιμήν.

    Anastasius Sinaiticus, Quæst. et Respon. Περίοδοι καὶ διδαχὰι τῶν ἀποστόλων.

    Nicephori Stichometria. Διδαχὴ ἀποστόλων στίχοι ςʹ.

    Zonaras (Sæc. xii.). τὴν διδαχὴν δὲ τῶν ἀποστολων τινὲς λέγουσιν εἶναι τὰς διὰ το͂υ Κλήμεντος γραφείσας διατάξεις.

    Matthæus Blastares. ἔξωθεν δὲ τῶν κανονιζομένων εἶναί φησιν (Ἀθανάσιος) τὴν Σοφίαν Σολομῶντος—καὶ τὴν διδαχὴν τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστολων.—Coteler, i. 193.

    Cyprian de Aleatoribus, c. Et in Doctrinis Apostolorum, Si quis frater delinquit in Ecclesia, &c.