To the Ephesians 3.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:176

ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ ἡ ἀγάπη οὐκ ἐᾷ με σιωπᾶν περὶ ὑμῶν, διὰ τοῦτο προέλαβον παρακαλεῖν ὑμᾶς, ὅπως συντρέχητε τῇ γνώμῃ τοῦ θεοῦ. καὶ γὰρ Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, τὸ ἀδιάκριτον ἡμῶν ζῆν, τοῦ πατρὸς ἡ γνώμη, ὡς καὶ οἱ ἐπίσκοποι, οἱ κατὰ τὰ πέρατα ὁρισθέντες, ἐν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ γνώμῃ εἰσίν.

English · Claude translation

But since love does not let me be silent about you, I have taken it on myself to urge you to run in harmony with the mind of God. For Jesus Christ, our inseparable life, is the mind of the Father, just as the bishops, who have been appointed throughout the ends of the earth, are in the mind of Jesus Christ.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:176 · 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

Also in

PG 5:648b (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

Church office, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“Mind” (γνώμη): also “purpose, will.”
“Inseparable life” (τὸ ἀδιάκριτον ἡμῶν ζῆν): the life from which we cannot be separated; perhaps “unwavering.”

Cite this passage

Ign. Eph. 3.2 (PG 5:648b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/3/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Eph. 3.2 (PG 5:648b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/3/2/).