Sophia Scriptura

To Diognetus 4.3

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

Summary: God does not forbid doing good on the Sabbath.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:356

τὸ δὲ καταψεύδεσθαι θεοῦ ὡς κωλύοντος ἐν τῇ τῶν σαββάτων ἡμέρᾳ καλόν τι ποιεῖν, πῶς οὐκ ἀσεβές;

English · Claude translation

And to lie against God as though he forbade doing anything good on the Sabbath day, how is that not impious?

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

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Diogn. 4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/4/3/).

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