Sophia Scriptura

To the Ephesians 14.2

Ignatius of Antioch · To the Ephesians · ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135) · Smyrna · Read in context

Summary: Christians are known by their deeds, not their words.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:188

οὐδεὶς πίστιν ἐπαγγελλόμενος ἁμαρτάνει, οὐδὲ ἀγάπην κεκτημένος μισεῖ. φανερὸν τὸ δένδρον ἀπὸ τοῦ καρποῦ αὐτοῦ. οὕτως οἱ ἐπαγγελλόμενοι Χριστοῦ εἶναι διʼ ὧν πράσσουσιν ὀφθήσονται. οὐ γὰρ νῦν ἐπαγγελίας τὸ ἔργον, ἀλλʼ ἐν δυνάμει πίστεως ἐάν τις εὑρεθῇ εἰς τέλος.

English · Claude translation

No one who professes faith sins, nor does anyone who possesses love hate. “The tree is known by its fruit.” So those who profess to be Christ's will be seen by what they do. For the work is not a matter of profession now, but of whether one is found in the power of faith to the end.

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Lake, LCL 24:188 · 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
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PG 5:656b (found by text match)
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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.
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Ethics

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Ign. Eph. 14.2 (PG 5:656b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/14/2/).

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Ign. Eph. 14.2 (PG 5:656b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/14/2/).

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