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Didache

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Prayer After the Meal

Chapter 10

1 After you have eaten your fill, 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.' 4 'Above all, we thank You because You are mighty. May You be glorified forever.' 5 'Remember, Lord, Your Church, and protect it from all evil. Perfect it in Your love, and gather it together in holiness from the four winds into Your kingdom that You have prepared.⁠ Yours is the power and the glory forever.' 6 'Let grace come, and let this world pass away. Hosanna to the God of David. If anyone is holy, let him come; if anyone is not, let him repent. Our Lord, Come!⁠ Amen.' 7 Allow the prophets to conduct the Eucharist as they choose.

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Compare Didache 10:2 and 3 John 1:7

Early Christian · New Testament

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Summary

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.

Passages

Didache 10:2

Early Christian
1 After you have eaten your fill, 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.'
90–120 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in the Didache

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.
100 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in 3 John

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.’ ...
Raymond E. Brown, The Epistles of John (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982), 711.

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