To the Trallians 12.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Stay united in prayer and support your bishop.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:222

παρακαλεῖ ὑμᾶς τὰ δεσμά μου, ἃ ἕνεκεν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ περιφέρω, αἰτούμενος θεοῦ ἐπιτυχεῖν· διαμένετε ἐν τῇ ὁμονοίᾳ ὑμῶν καὶ τῇ μετʼ ἀλλήλων προσευχῇ. πρέπει γὰρ ὑμῖν τοῖς καθʼ ἕνα, ἐξαιρέτως καὶ τοῖς πρεσβυτέροις, ἀναψύχειν τὸν ἐπίσκοπον εἰς τιμὴν πατρός, Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων.

English · Claude translation

My chains, which I carry about for the sake of Jesus Christ, asking to attain to God, exhort you: remain in your concord and in prayer with one another. For it is fitting for each of you, and especially the presbyters, to refresh the bishop, to the honor of the Father, of Jesus Christ, and of the apostles.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:222 · 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 5:684a–684b (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, Prayer

Cite this passage

Ign. Trall. 12.2 (PG 5:684a–684b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-trallians/12/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Trall. 12.2 (PG 5:684a–684b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-trallians/12/2/).