To the Ephesians 11.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:186

χωρὶς τούτου μηδὲν ὑμῖν πρεπέτω, ἐν ᾧ τὰ δεσμὰ περιφέρω, τοὺς πνευματικοὺς μαργαρίτας, ἐν οἷς γένοιτό μοι ἀναστῆναι τῇ προσευχῇ ὑμῶν, ἧς γένοιτό μοι ἀεὶ μέτοχον εἶναι, ἵνα ἐν κλήρῳ Ἐφεσίων εὑρεθῶ τῶν Χριστιανῶν, οἳ καὶ τοῖς ἀποστόλοις πάντοτε συνῄνεσαν ἐν δυνάμει Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

English · Claude translation

Apart from him let nothing seem fitting to you. In him I carry my chains, my spiritual pearls, in which may I rise again through your prayer, in which may I always share, so that I may be found in the company of the Christians of Ephesus, who have always been in agreement with the apostles by the power of Jesus Christ.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:186 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 172–277 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Also in

PG 5:653b–653c (found by text match)

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.

Topics

Martyrdom, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

“Rise again” (ἀναστῆναι): the resurrection; Ignatius hopes to rise still wearing his chains as a badge of honor.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing iota subscript); digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing); final full stop missing in the digital text): τῆ προσευχῇ → τῇ προσευχῇ; ἦς γένοιτό → ἧς γένοιτό; δυνάμει Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ → δυνάμει Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ..

Cite this passage

Ign. Eph. 11.2 (PG 5:653b–653c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/11/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Eph. 11.2 (PG 5:653b–653c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/11/2/).