To Diognetus 5.3

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

Summary: Their teaching is not a human invention.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:358

οὐ μὴν ἐπινοίᾳ τινὶ καὶ φροντίδι πολυπραγμόνων ἀνθρώπων μάθημα τοῦτʼ αὐτοῖς ἐστιν εὑρημένον, οὐδὲ δόγματος ἀνθρωπίνου προεστᾶσιν, ὥσπερ ἔνιοι.

This teaching of theirs was not discovered by some thought or reflection of busy-minded men, nor do they champion a human doctrine, as some do.

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.

Diogn. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/3/).

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Diogn. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/3/).