To the Philadelphians 5.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:242

Ἀδελφοί μου, λίαν ἐκκέχυμαι ἀγαπῶν ὑμᾶς καὶ ὑπεραγαλλόμενος ἀσφαλίζομαι ὑμᾶς· οὐκ ἐγὼ δέ, ἀλλʼ Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ἐν ᾧ δεδεμένος φοβοῦμαι μᾶλλον, ὡς ἔτι ὢν ἀναπάρτιστος· ἀλλʼ ἡ προσευχὴ ὑμῶν εἰς θεόν με ἀπαρτίσει, ἵνα ἐν ᾧ κλήρῳ ἠλεήθην ἐπιτύχω, προσφυγὼν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ ὡς σαρκὶ Ἰησοῦ, καὶ τοῖς ἀποστόλοις ὡς πρεσβυτερίῳ ἐκκλησίας.

English · Claude translation

My brothers, I am overflowing with love for you, and rejoicing greatly I try to make you secure; not I, but Jesus Christ, in whom I am in chains and am the more afraid, since I am not yet perfected. But your prayer to God will make me perfect, so that I may attain the lot in which I have received mercy, taking refuge in the gospel as in the flesh of Jesus, and in the apostles as in the council of presbyters of the church.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:242 · 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 5:700b (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

Prayer, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

“The gospel as … the flesh of Jesus”: whether “the gospel” here means a written Gospel or the preached message is debated.

Cite this passage

Ign. Phld. 5.1 (PG 5:700b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-philadelphians/5/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Phld. 5.1 (PG 5:700b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-philadelphians/5/1/).