He was just there to buy his dinner.
In a Constantinople fish shop in 1436, a young theology student notices and rescues some papers set aside for wrapping fish. It’s a hitherto unknown and anonymous letter which we now know as “The Letter to Diognetus”.
Written in the second century, the letter describes the Christian way of life. In one section the author notes that while Christians are no different from others in terms of country, language, or clothing they are able to display “their wonderful and confessedly striking message of life”. A little later he continues: “They marry, as do all [others]; they beget children; but they do not destroy their offspring. They have a common table, but not a common bed.”
