To the Romans 7.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:234

βασκανία ἐν ὑμῖν μὴ κατοικείτω. μηδʼ ἂν ἐγὼ παρὼν παρακαλῶ ὑμᾶς, πείσθητέ μοι· τούτοις δὲ μᾶλλον πείσθητε, οἷς γράφω ὑμῖν. ζῶν γὰρ γράφω ὑμῖν, ἐρῶν τοῦ ἀποθανεῖν. ὁ ἐμὸς ἔρως ἐσταύρωται, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ἐμοὶ πῦρ φιλόυλον· ὕδωρ δὲ ζῶν καὶ λαλοῦν ἐν ἐμοί, ἔσωθέν μοι λέγον· Δεῦρο πρὸς τὸν πατέρα.

English · Claude translation

Let no envy dwell among you. Even if I myself, when I am with you, should plead with you, do not obey me; obey rather what I am writing to you now. For I am writing to you while alive, yet longing to die. My passionate love has been crucified, and there is no fire in me that loves material things, but living water, speaking in me and saying within me, “Come to the Father.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:234 · 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 5:693a–693b (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.

Scripture

Gal 6:14 · echo, medium confidence
John 4:10 · allusion, medium confidence
John 7:38 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

“My passionate love has been crucified” (ὁ ἐμὸς ἔρως ἐσταύρωται): his earthly desire has been put to death (compare Gal 6:14). From Origen on, many read it as “my Love (that is, Christ) has been crucified.”

Cite this passage

Ign. Rom. 7.2 (PG 5:693a–693b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-romans/7/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Rom. 7.2 (PG 5:693a–693b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-romans/7/2/).