To Polycarp 8.2

Ignatius of Antioch · To Polycarp · ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135) · Troas · Read in context

Summary: Ignatius greets members of the church at Smyrna by name.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:276

ἀσπάζομαι πάντας ἐξ ὀνόματος καὶ τὴν τοῦ Ἐπιτρόπου σὺν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτῆς καὶ τῶν τέκνων. ἀσπάζομαι Ἄτταλον τὸν ἀγαπητόν μου. ἀσπάζομαι τὸν μέλλοντα καταξιοῦσθαι τοῦ εἰς Συρίαν πορεύεσθαι. ἔσται ἡ χάρις μετʼ αὐτοῦ διὰ παντὸς καὶ τοῦ πέμποντος αὐτὸν Πολυκάρπου.

English · Claude translation

I greet all by name, and the wife of Epitropus, with her whole household and her children. I greet Attalus, my beloved. I greet the one who is to be counted worthy to go to Syria. Grace will be with him always, and with Polycarp who sends him.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:276 · 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 5:728a–728b (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.

Notes

Translation notes

“The wife of Epitropus” (τὴν τοῦ Ἐπιτρόπου): or “of the procurator,” since ἐπίτροπος was also a title; she may have been a widow.

Cite this passage

Ign. Pol. 8.2 (PG 5:728a–728b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-polycarp/8/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Pol. 8.2 (PG 5:728a–728b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-polycarp/8/2/).

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