To the Smyrnaeans 7.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:258

Εὐχαριστίας καὶ προσευχῆς ἀπέχονται, διὰ τὸ μὴ ὁμολογεῖν τὴν εὐχαριστίαν σάρκα εἶναι τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τὴν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν παθοῦσαν, ἣν τῇ χρηστότητι ὁ πατὴρ ἤγειρεν. οἱ οὖν ἀντιλέγοντες τῇ δωρεᾷ τοῦ θεοῦ συζητοῦντες ἀποθνήσκουσιν· συνέφερεν δὲ αὐτοῖς ἀγαπᾶν, ἵνα καὶ ἀναστῶσιν.

English · Claude translation

They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins and which the Father raised in his goodness. So those who speak against the gift of God die in their disputing. It would be better for them to love, so that they might also rise.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:258 · 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 5:713a (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

Eucharist, Heresy, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“To love” (ἀγαπᾶν): perhaps also “to take part in the love feast” (see 8.2).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent); digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong letter)): πρυσευχῆς → προσευχῆς; συνέφερεν δε → συνέφερεν δὲ.

Cite this passage

Ign. Smyrn. 7.1 (PG 5:713a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/7/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Smyrn. 7.1 (PG 5:713a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/7/1/).