About
About Logia
A free, open library of Christian commentary, set verse by verse beside Scripture.
What it is
Logia sets each verse of the Bible beside what the church has said about it, from the early church to the 1800s. It is free to read, free to share, and its data is open for anyone to build on, in the spirit of Sefaria's library of Jewish texts.
The name comes from ta logia tou theou, “the oracles of God” (Romans 3:2), and from Papias's lost Exposition of the Logia of the Lord, one of the first Christian commentaries.
How excerpts are checked
Every excerpt is copied from a public-domain edition, never rewritten, and the source text it came from is kept beside it. A script checks each excerpt against its source on every change: word for word for a transcription, and in runs of six words for a page scan, whose lines carry margin notes and running heads. Where a scan misread a letter (“Let ns” for “Let us”), the correction is listed openly and applied when the site is built.
The Bible text
Logia reads the Open Word Bible, a CC0 translation from Hebrew and Greek with the reasoning behind every sentence. Logia never edits it: it is imported at a pinned version from the Open Word Bible's own repository.
Languages
Logia starts in English. Each new language is translated from the best public-domain source, the original Greek, Latin or German where that is better than the English, and reviewed by native speakers before it is marked reviewed.
Open
Logia's data and writing are CC0, its code is MIT, and everything is on GitHub.