To the Philadelphians 10.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The church at Antioch is at peace; Philadelphia should send a deacon as envoy.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:248

Ἐπειδὴ κατὰ τὴν προσευχὴν ὑμῶν καὶ κατὰ τὰ σπλάγχνα, ἃ ἔχετε ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, ἀπηγγέλη μοι εἰρηνεύειν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τὴν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῆς Συρίας, πρέπον ἐστὶν ὑμῖν ὡς ἐκκλησίᾳ θεοῦ, χειροτονῆσαι διάκονον εἰς τὸ πρεσβεῦσαι ἐκεῖ θεοῦ πρεσβείαν, εἰς τὸ συγχαρῆναι αὐτοῖς ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ γενομένοις καὶ δοξάσαι τὸ ὄνομα.

English · Claude translation

Since, in answer to your prayer and to the compassion that you have in Christ Jesus, it has been reported to me that the church in Antioch of Syria is at peace, it is fitting for you, as a church of God, to appoint a deacon to go there as God's ambassador, to rejoice with them when they are assembled together and to glorify the Name.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:248 · 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 5:705a–705b (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.

Topics

Church office

Cite this passage

Ign. Phld. 10.1 (PG 5:705a–705b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-philadelphians/10/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Phld. 10.1 (PG 5:705a–705b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-philadelphians/10/1/).