Sophia Scriptura

To Diognetus 6.5

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

Summary: As the flesh hates the soul, the world hates Christians.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:362

μισεῖ τὴν ψυχὴν ἡ σὰρξ καὶ πολεμεῖ μηδὲν ἀδικουμένη, διότι ταῖς ἡδοναῖς κωλύεται χρῆσθαι· μισεῖ καὶ Χριστιανοὺς ὁ κόσμος μηδὲν ἀδικούμενος, ὅτι ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ἀντιτάσσονται.

English · Claude translation

The flesh hates the soul and wars against it, though it has suffered no wrong, because it is prevented from indulging in pleasures; the world also hates the Christians, though it has suffered no wrong, because they oppose its pleasures.

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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.
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Persecution

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Diogn. 6.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/6/5/).

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