Sophia Scriptura

To Diognetus 4.2

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

Summary: Rejecting some foods God made is wrong.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:356

τό τε γὰρ τῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ κτισθέντων εἰς χρῆσιν ἀνθρώπων ἃ μὲν ὡς καλῶς κτισθέντα παραδέχεσθαι, ἃ δʼ ὡς ἄχρηστα καὶ περισσὰ παραιτεῖσθαι, πῶς οὐκ ἀθέμιστον;

English · Claude translation

For to accept some of the things created by God for human use as well created, and to refuse others as useless and superfluous, how is that not unlawful?

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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. 4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/4/2/).

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Diogn. 4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/4/2/).

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