Sophia Scriptura

To Diognetus 6.3

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

Summary: In the world but not of it.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:360–362

οἰκεῖ μὲν ἐν τῷ σώματι ψυχή, οὐκ ἔστι δὲ ἐκ τοῦ σώματος· καὶ Χριστιανοὶ ἐν κόσμῳ οἰκοῦσιν, οὐκ εἰσὶ δὲ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου.

English · Claude translation

The soul dwells in the body, but is not of the body; and Christians dwell in the world, but are not of the world.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:360–362 · 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. 6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/6/3/).

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Diogn. 6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/6/3/).

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