To the Magnesians 13.2

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

Summary: Submit to the bishop and to one another, as Christ did to the Father.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:208–210

ὑποτάγητε τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ καὶ ἀλλήλοις, ὡς Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς τῷ πατρὶ καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι τῷ Χριστῷ καὶ τῷ πατρὶ ἵνα ἕνωσις ᾖ σαρκική τε καὶ πνευματική.

English · Claude translation

Be subject to the bishop and to one another, as Jesus Christ was to the Father and the apostles were to Christ and to the Father, so that there may be a union both of flesh and of spirit.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:208–210 · 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.
Topics: Church office

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Translation notes

Other editions add “according to the flesh” after “to the Father.”

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Ign. Magn. 13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/13/2/).

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Ign. Magn. 13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/13/2/).

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