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The Didache thanks God for the Holy Name dwelling in believers. 3 John uses this same early Christian language of the Name when it says traveling teachers went out as its representatives.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Didache 10:2
Early Christian
1 After you are satisfied with food, give thanks in this way: 2 'We thank You, Holy Father, for Your Holy Name that You have allowed to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge, faith, and immortality that You revealed to us through Jesus Your Child. May You be glorified forever.' 3 'You, Lord Almighty, created all things for the sake of Your Name and provided food and drink for people to enjoy, so they might thank You. But You have blessed us with spiritual food and drink and eternal light through Your Child.'
3 John 1:7
New Testament
6 They have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. 7 For they have gone forth on behalf of “The Name,” accepting nothing from the pagans. 8 Therefore we ought to support such people so that we become coworkers in cooperation with the truth.
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Notes and References
... For it was for the sake of ‘the Name.’ Early Christian writings often use ‘the Name’ without explanatory clarification (Barnabas 16:8; Ignatius, Philadelphians 10:1); and in the NOTE on 1 John 2:12b I discussed the ambiguous ‘his name’ in light of the Johannine thesis that God gave His name to Jesus. First-century B.C. Pharisee thought is found in the address to God in the Psalms of Solomon 7:5(6): ‘While your name dwells in our midst, we shall find mercy.’ Christian usage at the end of the first century A.D. is found in Didache 10:2: ‘We thank you, Father most holy, for the sake of [hyper] your holy name which you made to dwell in our hearts.’ Ignatius, Philadelphians 10:2, speaks of sending emissaries to a church ‘for the sake of [hyper] the name of God.’ In 3 John such an interpretation establishes a good sequence from the phrase that has just preceded: ‘…in a way worthy of God — since it was for the sake of [His] name that they set out.’ ...
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