To the Romans 9.3

Ignatius of Antioch · To the Romans · ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135) · Smyrna · Read in context

Summary: Churches along the way welcomed Ignatius and sent people ahead of him.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:236

ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς τὸ ἐμὸν πνεῦμα καὶ ἡ ἀγάπη τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν τῶν δεξαμένων με εἰς ὄνομα Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, οὐχ ὡς παροδεύοντα. καὶ γὰρ αἱ μὴ προσήκουσαί μοι τῇ ὁδῷ τῇ κατὰ σάρκα, κατὰ πόλιν με προῆγον.

English · Claude translation

My spirit greets you, and so does the love of the churches that received me in the name of Jesus Christ, not as a passer-by. For even the churches that did not lie on my route in the flesh went before me from city to city.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:236 · 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 5:696b (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.

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Ign. Rom. 9.3 (PG 5:696b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-romans/9/3/).

Plain text

Ign. Rom. 9.3 (PG 5:696b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-romans/9/3/).

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