Editing Epistle to Diognetus (section)

== Possible identification ==
In 1947 Paulus Andriessen suggested that the ''Epistle to Diognetus'' is to be identified with the ''Apology'' of [[Quadratus of Athens]], mentioned by [[Eusebius]] in his ''[[Church History (Eusebius)|Church History.]]''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Andriessen |first=Dom P. |date=1947 |title=The Authorship of the Epistula ad Diognetum |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1582642 |journal=[[Vigiliae Christianae]] |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=129–136 |doi=10.2307/1582642 |jstor=1582642 |issn=0042-6032|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":1">Eusebius, ''Historia Ecclesiae'', Book IV, Chapter 3</ref> Eusebius not only mentions this ''Apology'', but also provides a fragment of its contents. This fragment is not present in the text of the ''Epistle'' which has survived. The manuscript containing this text, however, does not contain the full text but features a gap. In 1966 [[Edgar J. Goodspeed]] wrote that the identification of the ''Epistle'' with the ''Apology'' mentioned by Eusebius is an ingenious theory. Goodspeed considered it improbable however, also stating that the fragment does not fit the gap.<ref>Goodspeed, Edgar J. (1966). ''A History of Early Christian Literature''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp.&nbsp;97. {{ISBN|0226303861}}.</ref> 

More recently, [[Michael W. Holmes]] has called Andriessen's proposal "intriguing": while admitting that ''Epistle to Diognetus'' does not contain the only quotation known from Quadratus's work, Holmes defends this identification by noting "there is a gap between 7.6 and 7.7 into which it would fit very well."<ref>Michael W. Holmes, ''The Apostolic Fathers in English'' (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006), p. 290</ref>