To Diognetus 2.9

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

Summary: No human would endure what idols endure; this shows they are senseless.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:354

ταῦθʼ ὑμῶν τις ὑπομεινάτω, ταῦτα ἀνασχέσθω τις ἑαυτῷ γενέσθαι. ἀλλὰ ἄνθρωπος μὲν οὐδὲ εἷς ταύτης τῆς κολάσεως ἑκὼν ἀνέξεται, αἴσθησιν γὰρ ἔχει καὶ λογισμόν· ὁ δὲ λίθος ἀνέχεται, ἀναισθητεῖ γάρ. οὐκ οὖν τὴν αἴσθησιν αὐτοῦ ἐλέγχετε;

English · Claude translation

Let one of you undergo these things; let him endure to have these things done to himself. But not a single man will willingly endure this punishment, for he has sense and reason; but the stone endures it, for it is senseless. Do you not, then, expose its senselessness?

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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. 2.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/2/9/).

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Diogn. 2.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/2/9/).

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