Ignatius of Antioch, Epistles, ed. Kirsopp Lake, 4.7

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[1] Ὁ ἄρχων τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου διαρπάσαι με βούλεται καὶ τὴν εἰς θεόν μου γνώμην διαφθεῖραι. μηδεὶς οὖν τῶν παρόντων ὑμῶν βοηθείτω αὐτῷ: μᾶλλον ἐμοῦ γίνεσθε, τουτέστιν τοῦ θεοῦ. μὴ λαλεῖτε Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, κόσμον δὲ ἐπιθυμεῖτε.

[2] βασκανία ἐν ὑμῖν μὴ κατοικείτω. μηδ̓ ἂν ἐγὼ παρὼν παρακαλῶ ὑμᾶς, πείσθητέ μοι: τούτοις δὲ μᾶλλον πείσθητε, οἷς γράφω ὑμῖν. ζῶν γὰρ γράφω ὑμῖν, ἐρῶν τοῦ ἀποθανεῖν. ὁ ἐμὸς ἔρως ἐσταύρωται, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ἐμοὶ πῦρ φιλόυλον: ¹ ὕδωρ δὲ ζῶν καὶ λαλοῦν ² ἐν ἐμοί, ἔσωθέν μοι λέγον: Δεῦρο πρὸς τὸν πατέρα.

[3] οὐχ ἥδομαι τροφῇ ³ φθορᾶς οὐδὲ ἡδοναῖς τοῦ βίου τούτου. ἄρτον θεοῦ ⁴ θέλω, ὅ ἐστιν σὰρξ Ἰησοῦ ⁵ Χριστοῦ, τοῦ ἐκ σπέρματος Δαυείδ, καὶ πόμα θέλω τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ, ὅ ἐστιν ἀγάπη ἄφθαρτος.

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.) — 4.7 focus

[1] The Prince of this world wishes to tear me in¹ pieces, and to corrupt my mind towards God. Let none of you who are present help him. Be rather on my side, that is on God’s. Do not speak of Jesus Christ, and yet desire the world.

[2] Let no envy dwell among you. Even though when I come I beseech you myself, do not be persuaded by me, but rather obey this, which I write to you: for in the midst of life I write to you desiring death. My lust has been crucified, and there is in me no fire of love for material things; but only water living and speaking in me, and saying to me from within, Come to the Father.

[3] I have no pleasure in the food of corruption or in the delights of this life, I desire the bread of God, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire his blood, which is incorruptible love.²

Notes on the current edition

Epistles

1. Joh. 4, 10; 7, 38

2. The text is much exranded in the later authorities: Lightfoot is inclined to emend kai\ lalou=n to a(llo/menon, shich is found in g, as a referenes to Joh. 4, 14.

3. Joh. 6, 33

4. Joh. 7, 42; Rom. 1, 3; II Tim, 2, 8

5. *)ihsou= GLA, om. *sg.

Ignatius of Antioch Epistles 4.7

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