To Diognetus 11.5

Summary: Through the eternal Son the church is enriched with grace.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:374–376

οὗτος ὁ ἀεί, ὁ σήμερον υἱὸς λογισθείς, διʼ οὗ πλουτίζεται ἡ ἐκκλησία καὶ χάρις ἁπλουμένη ἐν ἁγίοις πληθύνεται, παρέχουσα νοῦν, φανεροῦσα μυστήρια, διαγγέλλουσα καιρούς, χαίρουσα ἐπὶ πιστοῖς, ἐπιζητοῦσι δωρουμένη, οἷς ὅρκια πίστεως οὐ θραύεται οὐδὲ ὅρια πατέρων παρορίζεται.

English · Claude translation

This is he who is eternal, who today is reckoned Son, through whom the church is enriched and grace, unfolded, is multiplied among the saints, giving understanding, revealing mysteries, announcing seasons, rejoicing over the faithful, given to those who seek, by whom the pledges of faith are not broken nor the boundaries of the fathers overstepped.

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Lake, LCL 25:374–376 · 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
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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.
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  • “Today is reckoned Son”: an echo of Ps 2:7 (“You are my Son; today I have begotten you”).

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Diogn. 11.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/11/5/).

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Diogn. 11.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/11/5/).

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