To Diognetus 7.1

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

Summary: Christian faith is not a human discovery.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:362

Οὐ γὰρ ἐπίγειον, ὡς ἔφην, εὕρημα τοῦτʼ αὐτοῖς παρεδόθη, οὐδὲ θνητὴν ἐπίνοιαν φυλάσσειν οὕτως ἀξιοῦσιν ἐπιμελῶς, οὐδὲ ἀνθρωπίνων οἰκονομίαν μυστηρίων πεπίστευνται.

English · Claude translation

For it is not, as I said, an earthly discovery that was handed down to them, nor is it a mortal idea that they think it right to guard so carefully, nor have they been entrusted with the administration of human mysteries.

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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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Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent)): ἐπιγειον → ἐπίγειον.

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Diogn. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/7/1/).

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Diogn. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/7/1/).

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