Editing Didache (section)

==Early references==
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[[File:Filoteos Bryennios.JPG|upright|thumb|[[Philotheos Bryennios]], who re-discovered the ''Didache'']]
The ''Didache'' is mentioned by [[Eusebius]] ({{c.|324}}) as the Teachings of the Apostles along with other books he considered [[Development of the New Testament canon#Eusebius|non-canonical]]:<ref>''[[Church History (Eusebius)|Historia Ecclesiastica]]'' III, 25.</ref>

{{quote|Let there be placed among the spurious works the [[Acts of Paul]], the so-called ''[[The Shepherd of Hermas|Shepherd]]'' and the [[Apocalypse of Peter]], and besides these the [[Epistle of Barnabas]], and what are called the Teachings of the Apostles, and also the [[Book of Revelation|Apocalypse of John]], if this be thought proper; for as I wrote before, some reject it, and others place it in the canon.}}

[[Athanasius of Alexandria]] (367) and [[Tyrannius Rufinus]] ({{c.|380}}) list the ''Didache'' among apocrypha. Rufinus gives the curious alternative title {{lang|la|Judicium Petri}} "Judgment of Peter." It is rejected by [[Nikephoros I of Constantinople]] ({{c.|810}}), pseudo-Anastasius,{{who|date=January 2025}} and the ''[[Synopsis of Holy Scripture]]'' and the ''[[Catalogue of the Sixty Canonical Books]]''. It is accepted by the [[Apostolic Constitutions]], Canon 85, [[John of Damascus]], and in [[Orthodox Tewahedo]] churches. The  {{lang|la|Adversus Aleatores}} by an imitator of [[Cyprian]] quotes it by name. Unacknowledged citations are widespread, if less certain. The section ''Two Ways'' shares the same language with the [[Epistle of Barnabas]], chapters 18–20, sometimes word for word, added to, dislocated, or abridged, and ''Barnabas'' iv, 9 either derives from ''Didache'', 16, 2–3, or vice versa. There can also be seen many similarities to the Epistles of both [[Polycarp]] and [[Ignatius of Antioch]]. ''[[The Shepherd of Hermas]]'' seems to reflect it, and [[Irenaeus]], [[Clement of Alexandria]],{{Efn
| Clement quotes the ''Didache'' as scripture.{{Refn
| {{Cite book
| author-link = Will Durant
| last = Durant
| first = Will
| title = Caesar and Christ
| place = New York
| publisher = Simon & Schuster
| year = 1972}}.}}{{Page needed |date=December 2015}}}} and [[Origen]] also seem to use the work, and so in the West do [[Optatus]] and the "Gesta apud Zenophilum".{{Efn
| "Proceedings Before Zenophilus" is the second of sixteen appendices to Optatus' (Bishop of [[Mila, Algeria|Milevis, Numidia]]) seven-book treatise ''Against the Donatists''<ref>{{cite book
|last1=Vassall-Phillips
|first1=O. R.
|title=The Work of St. Optatus, Bishop of Milevis, Against The Donatists
|date=1917
|pages=346–381
|publisher=Longmans, Green, And Co.
|location=London
|url=http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/optatus_10_appendix2.htm
|access-date=17 December 2016
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113190250/http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/optatus_10_appendix2.htm
|archive-date=13 November 2016
|language=en
}}</ref> by [[Optatus]], {{c.|370}}.}} The {{lang|la|[[Didascalia Apostolorum]]}} are founded upon the ''Didache''. The ''[[Apostolic Church-Ordinance]]'' used a part and the [[Apostolic Constitutions]] embody the {{lang|la|Didascalia}}. There are echoes in [[Justin Martyr]], [[Tatian]], [[Theophilus of Antioch]], [[Cyprian]], and [[Lactantius]].