To the Smyrnaeans 12.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:264

Ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς ἡ ἀγάπη τῶν ἀδελφῶν τῶν ἐν Τρωάδι, ὅθεν καὶ γράφω ὑμῖν διὰ Βούρρου, ὃν ἀπεστείλατε μετʼ ἐμοῦ ἅμα Ἐφεσίοις, τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς ὑμῶν, ὃς κατὰ πάντα με ἀνέπαυσεν. καὶ ὄφελον πάντες αὐτὸν ἐμιμοῦντο, ὄντα ἐξεμπλάριον θεοῦ διακονίας. ἀμείψεται αὐτὸν ἡ χάρις κατὰ πάντα.

English · Claude translation

The love of the brothers in Troas greets you; from there I am also writing to you through Burrhus, whom you sent with me together with the Ephesians, your brothers, and who has refreshed me in every way. I wish everyone imitated him, for he is a model of the ministry of God. Grace will reward him in every way.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:264 · 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 5:717a (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

Church office

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): ὅν ἀπεστείλατε → ὃν ἀπεστείλατε.

Cite this passage

Ign. Smyrn. 12.1 (PG 5:717a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/12/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Smyrn. 12.1 (PG 5:717a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/12/1/).