Ignatius of Antioch, Epistles, ed. Kirsopp Lake, 1.5

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[1] Εἰ γὰρ ἐγὼ ἐν μικρῷ χρόνῳ τοιαύτην συνήθειαν ἔσχον πρὸς τὸν ἐπίσκοπον ὑμῶν, οὐκ ἀνθρωπίνην οὖσαν, ἀλλὰ πνευματικήν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὑμᾶς μακαρίζω τοὺς ἐγκεκραμένους ¹ οὕτως, ὡς ἡ ἐκκλησία Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ, καὶ ὡς Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς τῷ πατρί, ἵνα πάντα ἐν ἑνότητι σύμφωνα ᾖ;

[2] μηδεὶς πλανάσθω: ἑὰν μή τις ᾖ ἐντὸς τοῦ ² θυσιαστηρίου, ὑστερεῖται τοῦ ἄρτου τοῦ θεοῦ. εἰ γὰρ ἑνὸς καὶ δευτέρου προσευχὴ τοσαύτην ἰσχὺν ἔχει, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ἥ τε τοῦ ἐπισκόπου καὶ πάσης τῆς ἐκκλησίας;

[3] ὁ οὖν μὴ ἐρχόμενος ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ οὗτος ἤδη ὑπερηφανεῖ καὶ ἑαυτὸν διέκρινεν. ³ γέγραπται γάρ: Ὑπερηφάνοις ὁ θεὸς ἀντιτάσσεται, σπουδάσωμεν οὖν μὴ ἀντιτάσσεσθαι τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ, ἵνα ὦμεν θεῷ ⁴ ὑποτασσόμενοι.

Epistles. Ignatius of Antioch. ed. Kirsopp Lake. Medford, MA. .

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Epistulae vii genuinae (Greek) (Ignatius of Antioch. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1912.)

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The Epistles of Saint Ignatius Perseus (Ignatius of Antioch. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1912.) — 1.5 focus

[1] For if I in a short time gained such fellowship¹ with your bishop as was not human but spiritual, how much more do I count you blessed who are so united with him as the Church is with Jesus Christ, and as Jesus Christ is with the Father, that all things may sound together in unison!

[2] Let no man be deceived: unless a man be within the sanctuary he lacks the bread of God, for if the prayer of one or two has such might, how much more has that of the bishop and of the whole Church?

[3] So then he who does not join in the common assembly, is already haughty, and has separated himself.² For it is written God resisteth the proud: let us then be careful not to oppose the bishop, that we may be subject to God.³

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Epistles

1. a)nakekrame/nous g, shich Lightfoot prefers.

2. Juh 6, 38

3. Prov. 3, 84; James 4, 6; *i Pet. 5, 6

4. qeou= is found in G and Lightfoot prefers it for transcriptional probability, but qew=| is eupported by LS and some patristic #3uotations.

Ignatius of Antioch Epistles 1.5

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