To Diognetus 5.1

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

Summary: Christians are not set apart by country, language, or customs.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:358

Χριστιανοὶ γὰρ οὔτε γῇ οὔτε φωνῇ οὔτε ἔθεσι διακεκριμένοι τῶν λοιπῶν εἰσιν ἀνθρώπων.

For Christians are distinguished from other people neither by country nor by language nor by customs.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:358 · 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.

Chapters 5–6 are the most famous passage of the work, a description of Christians in the world.

Diogn. 5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/1/).

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Diogn. 5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/1/).