Epistles

Ignatius of Antioch

Ignatius of Antioch. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1912.

ἐστὲ οὖν καὶ σύνοδοι πάντες, θεοφόροι καὶ ναοφόροι, χριστοφόροι, ἁγιοφόροι, κατὰ πάντα κεκοσμημένοι ἐντολαῖς Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ: οἶς

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καὶ ἀγαλλιώμενος ἠξιώθην δἰ ὦν γράφω προσομιλῆσαι ὑμῖν καὶ συγχαρῆναι, ὅτι κατ̓ ἀνθρώπων [*](This is Lightfoot's emondation: GL read pat) a)/llon bi/on. A seems to imply the same reading, but it gives no good meaning and g reads ou)de\ kata\ sa/rka a)gapa=te a)lla\ kata\ qeo/n (you do not love according to the flesh but according to God), a paraphrase shich may be taken to imply Lightfoot's reading.) βίον οὐδὲν ἀγαπᾶτε εἰ μὴ μόνον τὸν θεόν.

[*](Thess. 5, 17)

Καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἄλλων δὲ ἀνθρώπων ἀδιαλείπτως προσεύχεσθε, ἔστιν γὰρ ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐλπὶς μετανοίας, ἵνα θεοῦ τύχωσιν. ἐπιτρέψατε οὖν αὐτοῖς κἂν ἐκ τῶν ἔργων ὑμῖν μαθητευθῆναι.