To the Magnesians 7.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:202

Ὥσπερ οὖν ὁ κύριος ἄνευ τοῦ πατρὸς οὐδὲν ἐποίησεν, ἡνωμένος ὤν, οὔτε διʼ ἑαυτοῦ οὔτε διὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων· οὕτως μηδὲ ὑμεῖς ἄνευ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου καὶ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων μηδὲν πράσσετε· μηδὲ πειράσητε εὔλογόν τι φαίνεσθαι ἰδίᾳ ὑμῖν, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ μία προσευχή, μία δέησις, εἷς νοῦς, μία ἐλπὶς ἐν ἀγάπῃ, ἐν τῇ χαρᾷ τῇ ἀμώμῳ, ὅ ἐστιν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, οὗ ἄμεινον οὐδέν ἐστιν.

English · Claude translation

So, just as the Lord did nothing without the Father, being united with him, either by himself or through the apostles, so you must do nothing without the bishop and the presbyters. Do not try to make anything appear right to you on your own; but let there be, in common, one prayer, one petition, one mind, one hope, in love, in blameless joy, which is Jesus Christ, than whom nothing is better.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:202 · 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 5:668b–668c (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

John 5:19 · allusion, medium confidence
John 8:28 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Church office, Prayer

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): οὖ ἄμεινον → οὗ ἄμεινον.

Cite this passage

Ign. Magn. 7.1 (PG 5:668b–668c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/7/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Magn. 7.1 (PG 5:668b–668c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/7/1/).