Sophia Scriptura

To Diognetus 12.5

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

Summary: Paul: knowledge puffs up, love builds up.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:376–378

ἣν δύναμιν ἐνιδὼν ὁ ἀπόστολος τήν τε ἄνευ ἀληθείας προστάγματος εἰς ζωὴν ἀσκουμένην γνῶσιν μεμφόμενος λέγει· Ἡ γνῶσις φυσιοῖ, ἡ δὲ ἀγάπη οἰκοδομεῖ.

English · Claude translation

Seeing this power, the apostle, finding fault with knowledge that is practiced without the truth of the commandment that leads to life, says, “Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.”

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Lake, LCL 25:376–378 · 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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Scripture and canon

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Diogn. 12.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/12/5/).

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Diogn. 12.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/12/5/).

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