Apostolic Era Documents

(Updated June 26, 2025)

This Quote Archive collects pertinent quotes from Apostolic Era Documents, which are from the period of the Apostolic Fathers (roughly until the end of the 100s) but have no specific author ascribed to them.

Next to each quote are the topic-based Quote Archives in which they are included.

This Quote Archive is being continuously updated as research continues.

Didache (c. 50)

QUOTE ARCHIVES | The Canon of Scripture

(Ch. 4)¹

Do not hold your hands open for receiving and closed for giving [Sir. 4:31]…Do not turn away from the needy [Sir. 4:5], but share all with your brother and do not claim that it is your own [Acts 4:32]

Footnotes

1. Francis X. Glimm, Joseph M.F. Marique, SJ, Gerald G. Walsh, SJ, trans., The Fathers of the Church, Vol. 1: The Apostolic Fathers (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1947), 174. ↩︎