To the Ephesians 8.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:180–182

Μὴ οὖν τις ὑμᾶς ἐξαπατάτω, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ ἐξαπατᾶσθε, ὅλοι ὄντες θεοῦ. ὅταν γὰρ μηδεμία ἔρις ἐνήρεισται ἐν ὑμῖν ἡ δυναμένη ὑμᾶς βασανίσαι ἄρα κατὰ θεὸν ζῆτε. περίψημα ὑμῶν καὶ ἁγνίζομαι ὑμῶν Ἐφεσίων, ἐκκλησίας τῆς διαβοήτου τοῖς αἰῶσιν.

English · Claude translation

Let no one deceive you, then, as indeed you are not deceived, since you belong wholly to God. For when no strife that could torment you has taken root among you, then you are living according to God. I am your humble servant, and I offer myself for you Ephesians, a church famous throughout the ages.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:180–182 · 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 5:652a (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

1 Cor 4:13 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

“Humble servant” (περίψημα): literally “scrapings, offscouring” (1 Cor 4:13), a conventional expression of self-giving devotion.
“I offer myself for you” (ἁγνίζομαι ὑμῶν): literally “I am purified for you,” as an offering on another's behalf.
Older translations take these words differently (the Ante-Nicene Fathers, 1885: “I am far inferior to you, and require to be sanctified by your Church”); the rendering here follows the sense the same words have in 18.1 and in 1 Cor 4:13.

Cite this passage

Ign. Eph. 8.1 (PG 5:652a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/8/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Eph. 8.1 (PG 5:652a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/8/1/).