Greeks, Chapter 1
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Since I see, most excellent Diognetus, that you are exceedingly eager to learn the godliness of the Christians, and are inquiring concerning them very clearly and diligently: In what God do they trust, and in what way do they worship him, that they all scorn the world and despise death? Why do they neither esteem those gods regarded by the Greeks, nor keep the superstition of the Jews? What tender affection do they bear to one another, and why did this new race or practice enter into life now and not before?[fn]
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I welcome your readiness. I ask of God, who supplies to us both speaking and hearing, that it may be granted to me to speak so that you may become better for having heard, and to you to hear so that he who speaks may not be grieved.
Footnotes
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This epistle is known in scholarship as Πρὸς Διόγνητον ('To Diognetus'). The UPDV includes chapters 1-10; see The Epistle to the Greeks for more information.
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