{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">For the Christians are distinguished from other men\r\nneither by country, nor language, nor the customs which\r\nthey observe. For they neither inhabit cities of their own,\r\nnor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which\r\nis marked out by any singularity. The course of conduct\r\nwhich they follow has not been devised by any speculation\r\nor deliberation of inquisitive men; nor do they, like some,\r\nproclaim themselves the advocates of any merely human doctrines.\r\nBut, inhabiting Greek as well as barbarian cities,\r\naccording as the lot of each of them has determined, and\r\nfollowing the customs of the natives in respect to clothing,\r\nfood, and the rest of their ordinary conduct, they display to\r\nus their wonderful and confessedly striking<a id=\"r1480\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1480\"><sup>[1480]</sup></a> method of life.\r\nThey dwell in their own countries, but simply as sojourners.\r\nAs citizens, they share in all things with others, and yet\r\nendure all things as if foreigners. Every foreign land is to\r\nthem as their native country, and every land of their birth as\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_308\">308</span>a land of strangers. They marry, as do all [others]; they\r\nbeget children; but they do not destroy their offspring.<a id=\"r1481\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1481\"><sup>[1481]</sup></a>\r\nThey have a common table, but not a common bed.<a id=\"r1482\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1482\"><sup>[1482]</sup></a> They\r\nare in the flesh, but they do not live after the flesh.<a id=\"r1483\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1483\"><sup>[1483]</sup></a> They\r\npass their days on earth, but they are citizens of heaven.<a id=\"r1484\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1484\"><sup>[1484]</sup></a>\r\nThey obey the prescribed laws, and at the same time surpass\r\nthe laws by their lives. They love all men, and are persecuted\r\nby all. They are unknown and condemned; they are\r\nput to death, and restored to life.<a id=\"r1485\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1485\"><sup>[1485]</sup></a> They are poor, yet make\r\nmany rich;<a id=\"r1486\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1486\"><sup>[1486]</sup></a> they are in lack of all things, and yet abound\r\nin all; they are dishonoured, and yet in their very dishonour\r\nare glorified. They are evil spoken of, and yet are justified;\r\nthey are reviled, and bless;<a id=\"r1487\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1487\"><sup>[1487]</sup></a> they are insulted, and repay\r\nthe insult with honour; they do good, yet are punished as\r\nevil-doers. When punished, they rejoice as if quickened\r\ninto life; they are assailed by the Jews as foreigners, and\r\nare persecuted by the Greeks; yet those who hate them are\r\nunable to assign any reason for their hatred.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS.","THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS.","Chap. v.—The manners of the Christians."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-638"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3acca2737df2fce4858ffb74689db6f7ea66464f6ba20223921514599a6152a9","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PHP","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Phil. iii. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1484","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1484","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1484\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1484\">1484</a>. </span>Comp. <abbr title=\"Philippians\">Phil.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 20.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1484","text_sha256":"3bd818a589bb5a50d9f959960560bd24fa349765fdadc5cd74a6c986bbe46ab6","verified":false,"work_id":null}