To Diognetus 8.3

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

Summary: By that logic anything created could be called God.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:366

καίτοι γε, εἴ τις τούτων τῶν λόγων ἀποδεκτός ἐστι, δύναιτʼ ἂν καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν κτισμάτων ἓν ἕκαστον ὁμοίως ἀποφαίνεσθαι θεόν.

And yet, if any of these words is acceptable, each of the other created things could likewise be declared God.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:366 · 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. 8.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/8/3/).

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Diogn. 8.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/8/3/).