To Diognetus 10.8

Anonymous · To Diognetus · ca. 150–200 (disputed) · place unknown · Read in context

Summary: You will call blessed those who endure the fire of martyrdom.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:372–374

τότε τοὺς ὑπομένοντας ὑπὲρ δικαιοσύνης θαυμάσεις τὸ πῦρ τὸ πρόσκαιρον καὶ μακαρίσεις, ὅταν ἐκεῖνο τὸ πῦρ ἐπιγνῷς.

Then you will admire those who endure the temporary fire for righteousness' sake, and you will call them blessed, when you come to know that fire.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:372–374 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 350–379 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 25, 1913); made independently of existing English translations.
Topics: Martyrdom

Diogn. 10.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/10/8/).

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Diogn. 10.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/10/8/).