Sophia Scriptura

To Diognetus 12.1

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

Summary: Those who love God become a paradise bearing every fruit.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:376

Οἷς ἐντυχόντες καὶ ἀκούσαντες μετὰ σπουδῆς εἴσεσθε, ὅσα παρέχει ὁ θεὸς τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν ὀρθῶς, οἱ γενόμενοι παράδεισος τρυφῆς, πάγκαρπον ξύλον εὐθαλοῦν ἀνατείλαντες ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, ποικίλοις καρποῖς κεκοσμημένοι.

English · Claude translation

When you have read and listened to these things with eagerness, you will know what God provides for those who love him rightly, who become a paradise of delight, raising up within themselves a flourishing tree bearing every fruit, adorned with various fruits.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:376 · 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
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.
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Diogn. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/12/1/).

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Diogn. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/12/1/).

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