Sophia Scriptura

To Diognetus 9.5

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

Summary: The sweet exchange: our sin hidden in him, his righteousness justifying us.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:370

ὢ τῆς γλυκείας ἀνταλλαγῆς, ὢ τῆς ἀνεξιχνιάστου δημιουργίας, ὢ τῶν ἀπροσδοκήτων εὐεργεσιῶν· ἵνα ἀνομία μὲν πολλῶν ἐν δικαίῳ ἑνὶ κρυβῇ, δικαιοσύνη δὲ ἑνὸς πολλοὺς ἀνόμους δικαιώσῃ.

English · Claude translation

O the sweet exchange, O the inscrutable work, O the unexpected benefits: that the lawlessness of many should be hidden in one righteous man, and the righteousness of one should justify many lawless people!

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:370 · 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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Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Exchange” (ἀνταλλαγή): the exchange of our sin for Christ's righteousness.

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Diogn. 9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/9/5/).

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Diogn. 9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/9/5/).

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