To Diognetus 2.5

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

Summary: Worshipers become like their idols.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:352

ταῦτα θεοὺς καλεῖτε; τούτοις δουλεύετε; τούτοις προσκυνεῖτε, τέλεον δʼ αὐτοῖς ἐξομοιοῦσθε.

English · Claude translation

These you call gods? These you serve? These you worship, and in the end you become like them.

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Source

Lake, LCL 25:352 · 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.

Scripture

Ps 115:8 (113:16 LXX) · allusion, medium confidence

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Diogn. 2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/2/5/).

Plain text

Diogn. 2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/2/5/).

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