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The Didache: The Teaching of the Lord to the Gentiles through the Twelve Apostles. is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Didache is, in all probability, the oldest surviving extant piece of non-canonical literature. It is not so much a letter as a handbook for new Christian converts, consisting of instructions derived directly from the teachings of Jesus. The Greek word didache means "teaching." The Didache is the short title of an ancient document that contains some very early Christian doctrines. Although a...

thou shalt not kill a child by abortion, neither shalt thou slay it when born; thou shalt not covet the goods of thy neighbour; 3 thou shalt not commit perjury; thou shalt not bear false witness; thou shalt not speak evil; thou shalt not bear malice; 4 thou shalt not be double-minded or double-tongued, for to be double tongued is the snare of death. 5 Thy speech shall not be false or empty, but concerned with action. 6 Thou shalt not be covetous, or rapacious, or hypocritical, or malicious, or