Sophia Scriptura

To the Ephesians 2.2

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

Summary: United in obedience to the bishop and presbyters, the church will be holy.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:174–176

ὀναίμην ὑμῶν διὰ παντός, ἐάνπερ ἄξιος ὦ. πρέπον οὖν ἐστὶν κατὰ πάντα τρόπον δοξάζειν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν τὸν δοξάσαντα ὑμᾶς, ἵνα ἐν μιᾷ ὑποταγῇ κατηρτισμένοι, ὑποτασσόμενοι τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ καὶ τῷ πρεσβυτερίῳ, κατὰ πάντα ἦτε ἡγιασμένοι.

English · Claude translation

May I have joy of you always, if indeed I am worthy. It is fitting, then, in every way to glorify Jesus Christ, who has glorified you, so that, made complete in one obedience and subject to the bishop and the council of presbyters, you may be sanctified in all things.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:174–176 · 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 5:645b (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.
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Church office

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): οὗν ἐστὶν → οὖν ἐστὶν.

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Ign. Eph. 2.2 (PG 5:645b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/2/2/).

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Ign. Eph. 2.2 (PG 5:645b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/2/2/).

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