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# Appendix C: Biblical and Early-Christian Source Spine

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The practical voice of this book rests on a definite source order. The following map lets readers see the spine without carrying the full DDF research apparatus.

- Book movement | Governing biblical field | Early continuity witness
- Household formation | Deuteronomy 6; Psalm 78; Psalm 127; Hebrew bayit, derek, shama, lev/levav; Greek oikos, paideia. | The Didache's Two Ways and repeated communal practice; Polycarp's household exhortation.
- Whole child and fitting authority | Mark 10; Matthew 18; Luke 2; Ephesians 6; Greek paidion, teknon, paideia, parorgizo. | Irenaeus on Christ's assumption and sanctification of embodied human life; Clement of Alexandria used carefully on formation and discipline.
- Church and wider household | Acts 2 and 16; Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12; Titus 2; Greek ekklesia, koinonia, adelphoi, diakonia. | The Didache on worship and community order; Ignatius on ordered Church unity; Justin on public Christian worship and care.
- Repair and truthful mercy | Psalms of confession; Matthew 5 and 18; Luke 15; Ephesians 4; Greek metanoia, homologeo, aphesis, karpos. | The Didache and 1 Clement on confession, repentance, moral paths, and restoration of fractured life.
- Body and sexual holiness | Genesis 1--2; Matthew 19; 1 Corinthians 6--7; Greek soma, gamos, porneia, enkrateia, hagiasmos. | The Didache's bodily moral boundaries; Justin, Irenaeus, and Polycarp on embodied holiness and refusal of pagan sexual practice.
- Protection and accountable power | Psalm 82; Ezekiel 34; Matthew 18; 1 Peter 5; Hebrew mishpat, emet; Greek phylasso, aletheia, poimen. | The early Church's care of the vulnerable and discipline of moral life; no patristic office or household custom outranks Scripture's judgment of abusive power.
- Vocation and hope | Genesis 1--2; Colossians 3; 1 Thessalonians 4; 1 Corinthians 15; Revelation 21--22; Hebrew avodah, shalom; Greek ergon, klesis, anastasis. | Polycarp on ordinary endurance and work; Irenaeus on embodied recapitulation; Athanasius as later support for resurrection and incorruption.

DDF joins these sources into one systems account. Households are created channels, not final causes. Repetition forms body, attention, desire, memory, and responsibility without mechanically determining a person. Sin bends these channels toward fear, secrecy, domination, and false worship. Christ remains source, judge, healer, and end; the Spirit forms persons in the Church; resurrection keeps bodily life, work, family, singleness, grief, protection, and hope inside one reality.