To Diognetus 2.8

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

Summary: Sacrifices either torment the gods or prove them senseless.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:354

αἷς δὲ δοκεῖτε τιμαῖς προσφέρειν, εἰ μὲν αἰσθάνονται, κολάζετε μᾶλλον αὐτούς· εἰ δὲ ἀναισθητοῦσιν, ἐλέγχοντες αἵματι καὶ κνίσαις αὐτοὺς θρησκεύετε.

English · Claude translation

And with the honors you think you offer them, if they have sense, you rather punish them; but if they are senseless, you expose them when you worship them with blood and the smoke of fat.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:354 · 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. 2.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/2/8/).

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Diogn. 2.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/2/8/).

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