To the Ephesians 19.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: A brilliant star announced Christ's coming to the universe.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:192

πῶς οὖν ἐφανερώθη τοῖς αἰῶσιν; ἀστὴρ ἐν οὐρανῷ ἔλαμψεν ὑπὲρ πάντας τοὺς ἀστέρας, καὶ τὸ φῶς αὐτοῦ ἀνεκλάλητον ἦν καὶ ξενισμὸν παρεῖχεν ἡ καινότης αὐτοῦ, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ πάντα ἄστρα ἅμα ἡλίῳ καὶ σελήνῃ χορὸς ἐγένετο τῷ ἀστέρι, αὐτὸς δὲ ἦν ὑπερβάλλων τὸ φῶς αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ πάντα· ταραχή τε ἦν, πόθεν ἡ καινότης ἡ ἀνόμοιος αὐτοῖς.

English · Claude translation

How, then, were they revealed to the ages? A star shone in heaven brighter than all the stars; its light was indescribable and its newness caused amazement. All the other stars, together with the sun and moon, formed a chorus around the star, yet it outshone them all with its light. And there was bewilderment over where this new thing, so unlike them, came from.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:192 · 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 5:660a–660b (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.

Scripture

Matt 2:2 · allusion, medium confidence
Gen 37:9 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Ign. Eph. 19.2 (PG 5:660a–660b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/19/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Eph. 19.2 (PG 5:660a–660b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/19/2/).