To Diognetus 5.17

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

Summary: Jews and Greeks oppose them without being able to say why.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:360

ὑπὸ Ἰουδαίων ὡς ἀλλόφυλοι πολεμοῦνται καὶ ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων διώκονται· καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν τῆς ἔχθρας εἰπεῖν οἱ μισοῦντες οὐκ ἔχουσιν.

They are warred against by the Jews as foreigners, and persecuted by the Greeks; and those who hate them cannot state the cause of their hostility.

Source: 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.
Topics: Persecution

Diogn. 5.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/17/).

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Diogn. 5.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/17/).