Epistle to Diognetus
Anonymous
Chapter 5
About this work
An elegant anonymous defense of Christianity explaining Christian worship, moral life, social belonging, and God’s saving action in Christ to an otherwise unknown inquirer named Diognetus.
- Author
- Anonymous
- Traditional attribution
- Justin Martyr (by manuscript transmission)
- Date
- c. AD 130–200
- Origin
- Unknown
- Genre
- Apology
Neither the author nor the recipient can be securely identified, and the work’s date remains debated.
Chapter V.—The manners of the Christians.
For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by