Sophia Scriptura

To the Magnesians 9.2

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

Summary: The prophets awaited Christ as their teacher, and he raised them from the dead.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:204–206

πῶς ἡμεῖς δυνησόμεθα ζῆσαι χωρὶς αὐτοῦ, οὗ καὶ οἱ προφῆται μαθηταὶ ὄντες τῷ πνεύματι ὡς διδάσκαλον αὐτὸν προσεδόκων; καὶ διὰ τοῦτο, ὃν δικαίως ἀνέμενον, παρὼν ἤγειρεν αὐτοὺς ἐκ νεκρῶν.

English · Claude translation

how shall we be able to live apart from him, whom even the prophets, being his disciples in the Spirit, awaited as their teacher? And for this reason he whom they rightly awaited, when he came, raised them from the dead.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:204–206 · 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
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PG 5:669b (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
Topics
Christology, Eschatology

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Ign. Magn. 9.2 (PG 5:669b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/9/2/).

Plain text
Ign. Magn. 9.2 (PG 5:669b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/9/2/).

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