spel lies behind the
eucharistic prayers which the writer has embodied in his work. There are
no indications of any form of doctrinal heresy as needing rebuke; the
warnings against false teaching are quite general. While the first part
must be dated before the Epistle of Barnabas, i.e. before A.D. 90, it
seems wisest not to place the complete work much earlier than A.D. 120,
and there are passages which may well be later.

A large literature has sprung up round The _Didach[=e]_ since 1884.
Harnack's edition in _Texte u. Unters._ vol. ii. (1884) is
indispensable to the student; and his discussions in _Altchristl.
Litteratur_ and _Chronologie_ give clear summaries of his work. Other
editions of the text are those of F. X. Funk, _Patres Apostolici_,
vol. i. (Tubingen, 1901); H. Lietzmann (Bonn, 1903; with Latin
version). Dr J. E. Odgers has published an English translation with
introduction and notes (London, 1906). Dr C. Taylor in 1886 drew
attention to some important parallels in Jewish literature; his
edition contains an English translation. Dr Rendel Harris published in
1887 a complete facsimile, and gathered a great store of patristic
illustration. Text and translation will also be found in Lightfoot's
_Apostolic Fathers_ (ed. min.) The fullest critical treatment in
English is by Dr Vernon Bartlet in the extra volume of Hastings's
_Dictionary of the Bible_; the most complete commentary on the text is
by P. Drews in Hennecke's _Handbuch zu den N.T. Apocryphen_ (1904).
Other references to the literature may be found by consulting
Harnack's _Altchristl. Litteratur_.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The MS. was found in the Library of the Jerusalem Monastery of
the Most Holy Sepulchre, in Phanar, the Greek quarter of
Constantinople. It is a small octavo volume of 120 parchment leaves,
written throughout by Leo, "notary and sinner," who finished his task
on the 11th of June 1156. Besides The _Didach[=e]_ and the Epistles
of Clement it contains several spurious Ignatian epistles.

[2] The word _twelve_ had no place in the original title and was
inserted when the original _Didach[=e]_ or _Teaching_ (e.g. _The Two
Ways_) was combined with the church manual which mentions apostles
outside of the twelve. It may be noted that the division of the
_Didach[=e]_ into chapters is due to Bryennius, that into verses to
A. Harnack.

DIDACTIC POETRY, that form