To the Ephesians 20.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:194

μάλιστα ἐὰν ὁ κύριός μοι ἀποκαλύψῃ, ὅτι οἱ κατʼ ἄνδρα κοινῇ πάντες ἐν χάριτι ἐξ ὀνόματος συνέρχεσθε ἐν μιᾷ πίστει καὶ ἐν Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ, τῷ κατὰ σάρκα ἐκ γένους Δαυείδ, τῷ υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου καὶ υἱῷ θεοῦ, εἰς τὸ ὑπακούειν ὑμᾶς τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ καὶ τῷ πρεσβυτερίῳ ἀπερισπάστῳ διανοίᾳ, ἕνα ἄρτον κλῶντες, ὅς ἐστιν φάρμακον ἀθανασίας, ἀντίδοτος τοῦ μὴ ἀποθανεῖν, ἀλλὰ ζῆν ἐν Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ διὰ παντός.

English · Claude translation

Especially if the Lord reveals to me that you are all, each one of you by name, coming together in common in grace, in one faith and in Jesus Christ, who according to the flesh is of David's line, the Son of Man and Son of God, so that you obey the bishop and the council of presbyters with undivided mind, breaking one bread, which is the medicine of immortality, the antidote against dying, so that we may live in Jesus Christ forever.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:194 · 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 5:661a (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

Rom 1:3 · allusion, medium confidence
John 6:51 · echo, medium confidence
1 Cor 10:17 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Eucharist, Church office, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“Medicine of immortality” (φάρμακον ἀθανασίας): among the most quoted early descriptions of the Eucharist.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): Χριστῷ. τῷ κατὰ → Χριστῷ, τῷ κατὰ.

Cite this passage

Ign. Eph. 20.2 (PG 5:661a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/20/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Eph. 20.2 (PG 5:661a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/20/2/).