To Diognetus 6.4

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

Summary: Their faith is invisible, like the soul.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:362

ἀόρατος ἡ ψυχὴ ἐν ὁρατῷ φρουρεῖται τῷ σώματι· καὶ Χριστιανοὶ γινώσκονται μὲν ὄντες ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ, ἀόρατος δὲ αὐτῶν ἡ θεοσέβεια μένει.

The invisible soul is guarded in the visible body; and Christians are known to be in the world, but their religion remains invisible.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:362 · 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.

Diogn. 6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/6/4/).

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Diogn. 6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/6/4/).