Sophia Scriptura

To the Ephesians 10.2

Ignatius of Antioch · To the Ephesians · ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135) · Smyrna · Read in context

Summary: Answer hostility with gentleness, humility, and prayer.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:184

πρὸς τὰς ὀργὰς αὐτῶν ὑμεῖς πραεῖς, πρὸς τὰς μεγαλορημοσύνας αὐτῶν ὑμεῖς ταπεινόφρονες, πρὸς τὰς βλασφημίας αὐτῶν ὑμεῖς τὰς προσευχάς, πρὸς τὴν πλάνην αὐτῶν ὑμεῖς ἑδραῖοι τῇ πίστει, πρὸς τὸ ἄγριον αὐτῶν ὑμεῖς ἥμεροι, μὴ σπουδάζοντες ἀντιμιμήσασθαι αὐτούς,

English · Claude translation

Answer their anger with gentleness, their boasting with humility, their slanders with prayers, their error with steadfastness in the faith, their savagery with gentleness of manners, not eager to retaliate against them.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:184 · 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 5:653a (found by text match)
Text
As printed in Lake, LCL 24. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
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.
Compare
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
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Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent); digitization slip: word repeated): αὐτῶν αὐτῶν → αὐτῶν; μῆ σπουδάζοντες → μὴ σπουδάζοντες.

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Ign. Eph. 10.2 (PG 5:653a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/10/2/).

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Ign. Eph. 10.2 (PG 5:653a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/10/2/).

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