The second feature of the Didache which is of interest to us here has to do with the relationship between travelling and local ministers. While discussing the question of officeholders and “the old free men of the Spirit” in the Church of the second century in general, Hans von Campenhausen states that they were both there and then goes on to say: The coexistence of these various kinds of authority is not felt to be a problem. To start in every case from a supposed opposition between two separate