To the Magnesians 9.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:204

Εἰ οὖν οἱ ἐν παλαιοῖς πράγμασιν ἀναστραφέντες εἰς καινότητα ἐλπίδος ἦλθον, μηκέτι σαββατίζοντες, ἀλλὰ κατὰ κυριακὴν ζῶντες, ἐν ᾗ καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἡμῶν ἀνέτειλεν διʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ, ὅν τινες ἀρνοῦνται, διʼ οὗ μυστηρίου ἐλάβομεν τὸ πιστεύειν, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὑπομένομεν, ἵνα εὑρεθῶμεν μαθηταὶ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ μόνου διδασκάλου ἡμῶν·

English · Claude translation

If, then, those who lived in ancient ways came to a new hope, no longer keeping the Sabbath but living according to the Lord's day, on which our life also rose through him and his death (which some deny), the mystery through which we received faith, and because of which we endure, so that we may be found disciples of Jesus Christ, our only teacher,

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:204 · 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 5:669a–669b (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

Matt 23:8 · echo, medium confidence
Rev 1:10 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“The Lord's day” (κυριακήν): Sunday; among the earliest uses of the term. Some manuscripts add “life” (“the Lord's life”).
“Which some deny”: the reality of Christ's death, denied by the docetists.

Cite this passage

Ign. Magn. 9.1 (PG 5:669a–669b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/9/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Magn. 9.1 (PG 5:669a–669b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/9/1/).