Sophia Scriptura

To Diognetus 3.4

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

Summary: The Creator needs nothing from us.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:356

ὁ γὰρ ποιήσας τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ πᾶσιν ἡμῖν χορηγῶν, ὧν προσδεόμεθα, οὐδενὸς ἂν αὐτὸς προσδέοιτο τούτων ὧν τοῖς οἰομένοις διδόναι παρέχει αὐτός.

English · Claude translation

For he who made heaven and earth and all that is in them, and who supplies all of us with what we need, would himself need none of the things that he himself provides to those who think they are giving them.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:356 · 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. 3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/3/4/).

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Diogn. 3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/3/4/).

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