To the Romans 5.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Ignatius welcomes every torture, if only he may reach Christ.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:232

συγγνώμην μοι ἔχετε· τί μοι συμφέρει, ἐγὼ γινώσκω, νῦν ἄρχομαι μαθητὴς εἶναι. μηθέν με ζηλώσαι τῶν ὁρατῶν καὶ ἀοράτων, ἵνα Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐπιτύχω. πῦρ καὶ σταυρὸς θηρίων τε συστάσεις, ἀνατομαί, διαιρέσεις, σκορπισμοὶ ὀστέων, συγκοπὴ μελῶν, ἀλεσμοὶ ὅλου τοῦ σώματος, κακαὶ κολάσεις τοῦ διαβόλου ἐπʼ ἐμὲ ἐρχέσθωσαν, μόνον ἵνα Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐπιτύχω.

English · Claude translation

Forgive me; I know what is to my advantage. Now I am beginning to be a disciple. May nothing visible or invisible envy me, so that I may attain to Jesus Christ. Fire and cross and encounters with wild beasts, cuttings and tearings, scattering of bones, mangling of limbs, grinding of the whole body, the cruel tortures of the devil: let them come upon me, only let me attain to Jesus Christ.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:232 · 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 5:692a (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

Martyrdom

Cite this passage

Ign. Rom. 5.3 (PG 5:692a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-romans/5/3/).

Plain text

Ign. Rom. 5.3 (PG 5:692a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-romans/5/3/).