To the Magnesians 1.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:196–198

καταξιωθεὶς γὰρ ὀνόματος θεοπρεπεστάτου, ἐν οἷς περιφέρω δεσμοῖς ᾅδω τὰς ἐκκλησίας, ἐν αἷς ἕνωσιν εὔχομαι σαρκὸς καὶ πνεύματος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, τοῦ διὰ παντὸς ἡμῶν ζῆν, πίστεώς τε καὶ ἀγάπης, ἧς οὐδὲν προκέκριται, τὸ δὲ κυριώτερον Ἰησοῦ καὶ πατρός· ἐν ᾧ ὑπομένοντες τὴν πᾶσαν ἐπήρειαν τοῦ ἄρχοντος τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου καὶ διαφυγόντες θεοῦ τευξόμεθα.

English · Claude translation

For having been counted worthy of a most godly name, in the chains that I bear I sing the praises of the churches, and I pray that in them there may be union with the flesh and spirit of Jesus Christ, our constant life, a union of faith and love, to which nothing is preferred, and, what is more important, a union with Jesus and the Father. If in him we endure all the abuse of the ruler of this age and escape it, we shall attain to God.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:196–198 · 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 5:664b (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

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“A most godly name”: probably the name of a prisoner for Christ.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (stray punctuation); digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): ἕνωσιν· εὔχομαι → ἕνωσιν εὔχομαι; ἡς οὐδὲν → ἧς οὐδὲν.

Cite this passage

Ign. Magn. 1.2 (PG 5:664b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/1/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Magn. 1.2 (PG 5:664b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/1/2/).