Sophia Scriptura

To the Magnesians 5.1

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

Summary: Life and death lie before everyone, and each goes to his own place.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:200

Ἐπεὶ οὖν τέλος τὰ πράγματα ἔχει καὶ πρόκειται τὰ δύο ὁμοῦ, ὅ τε θάνατος καὶ ἡ ζωή, καὶ ἕκαστος εἰς τὸν ἴδιον τόπον μέλλει χωρεῖν·

English · Claude translation

Since, then, things are coming to an end, and the two lie before us together, death and life, and each is going to go to his own place;

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Lake, LCL 24:200 · 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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  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong letter)): πρώγματα → πράγματα.

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Ign. Magn. 5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/5/1/).

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