To Diognetus 3.2

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

Summary: The Jews rightly worship one God but err in offering sacrifice.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:354

Ἰουδαῖοι τοίνυν, εἰ μὲν ἀπέχονται ταύτης τῆς προειρημένης λατρείας, καλῶς θεὸν ἕνα τῶν πάντων σέβειν καὶ δεσπότην ἀξιοῦσι φρονεῖν· εἰ δὲ τοῖς προειρημένοις ὁμοιοτρόπως τὴν θρησκείαν προσάγουσιν αὐτῷ ταύτην, διαμαρτάνουσιν.

English · Claude translation

The Jews, then, insofar as they abstain from the worship described above, rightly claim to reverence one God of all and to regard him as Master; but insofar as they offer this worship to him in the same way as those already mentioned, they are in error.

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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. 3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/3/2/).

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Diogn. 3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/3/2/).

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