Sophia Scriptura

To Diognetus 5.13

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

Summary: Poor, yet making many rich.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:360

πτωχεύουσι, καὶ πλουτίζουσι πολλούς· πάντων ὑστεροῦνται, καὶ ἐν πᾶσι περισσεύουσιν.

English · Claude translation

They are poor, and they make many rich; they lack everything, and they abound in everything.

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Lake, LCL 25:360 · 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. 5.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/13/).

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Diogn. 5.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/13/).

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