To the Philadelphians 6.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:244

Ἐὰν δέ τις ἰουδαϊσμὸν ἑρμηνεύῃ ὑμῖν, μὴ ἀκούετε αὐτοῦ. ἄμεινον γάρ ἐστιν παρὰ ἀνδρὸς περιτομὴν ἔχοντος χριστιανισμὸν ἀκούειν, ἢ παρὰ ἀκροβύστου ἰουδαϊσμόν. ἐὰν δὲ ἀμφότεροι περὶ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μὴ λαλῶσιν, οὗτοι ἐμοὶ στῆλαί εἰσιν καὶ τάφοι νεκρῶν, ἐφʼ οἷς γέγραπται μόνον ὀνόματα ἀνθρώπων.

English · Claude translation

But if anyone expounds Judaism to you, do not listen to him. For it is better to hear Christianity from a man who is circumcised than Judaism from one who is uncircumcised. But if either of them does not speak about Jesus Christ, they are to me tombstones and graves of the dead, on which only the names of men are written.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:244 · 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 5:701a–701b (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

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

“Judaism … from one who is uncircumcised”: apparently Gentile Christians urging Jewish practices.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing diaeresis)): ἀκροβύστου ἰουδαῖσμόν → ἀκροβύστου ἰουδαϊσμόν.

Cite this passage

Ign. Phld. 6.1 (PG 5:701a–701b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-philadelphians/6/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Phld. 6.1 (PG 5:701a–701b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-philadelphians/6/1/).