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The Letter to Diognetus
An early Christian · 2nd century
An unknown Christian writes to a curious pagan about who the Christians are. They live in their own countries as strangers, they obey the laws and go beyond them in their lives, and they are to the world what the soul is to the body.
It takes about twenty minutes to read and stays with you much longer.
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About this edition
Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885).
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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