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There shall be no curse any more (pan katathema ouk estai eti). No other example of katathema has been found outside of the Didache XVI. 5, though the verb katathematizō occurs in Mat 26:74, meaning to curse, while we have anathematizō in Mar 14:71 in the same sense. It may be a syncopated form of katanathema. The usual anathema (curse) occurs in 1Co 16:22; Gal 1:8; Rom 9:3. For pan with ouk = ouden see Rev 21:27.
Shall do him service (latreusousin autōi). Future active of latreuō, linear idea, “shall keep on serving.” See Rev 7:15 for present active indicative of this same verb with the dative autōi as here, picturing the worship of God in heaven. See Rev 22:1 for “the throne of God and of the Lamb.”