Epistle to Diognetus
Anonymous
Chapter 8
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 VIII.—The miserable state of men before the coming of the Word.
For, who of men at all understood before His