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To the Ephesians 7.1

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

Summary: Beware of false teachers who bear Christ's name but act unworthily.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:180

Εἰώθασιν γάρ τινες δόλῳ πονηρῷ τὸ ὄνομα περιφέρειν, ἄλλα τινὰ πράσσοντες ἀνάξια θεοῦ· οὓς δεῖ ὑμᾶς ὡς θηρία ἐκκλίνειν· εἰσὶν γὰρ κύνες λυσσῶντες, λαθροδῆκται· οὓς δεῖ ὑμᾶς φυλάσσεσθαι ὄντας δυσθεραπεύτους.

English · Claude translation

For some are accustomed to carry the Name about with wicked deceit, while doing other things unworthy of God. You must shun them as wild beasts, for they are mad dogs that bite by stealth. You must be on your guard against them, for they are hard to cure.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:180 · 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
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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Heresy

Notes

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  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): οὕς δεῖ → οὓς δεῖ.

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Ign. Eph. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/7/1/).

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Ign. Eph. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/7/1/).

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