To the Ephesians 14.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:188

Ὦν οὐδὲν λανθάνει ὑμᾶς, ἐὰν τελείως εἰς Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἔχητε τὴν πίστιν καὶ τὴν ἀγάπην, ἥτις ἐστὶν ἀρχὴ ζωῆς καὶ τέλος· ἀρχὴ μὲν πίστις, τέλος δὲ ἀγάπη. τὰ δὲ δύο ἐν ἑνότητι γενόμενα θεός ἐστιν, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα πάντα εἰς καλοκἀγαθίαν ἀκόλουθά ἐστιν.

English · Claude translation

None of these things escapes you if you have perfect faith and love toward Jesus Christ, which are the beginning and the end of life: faith is the beginning and love is the end. And the two, when they are joined in unity, are God; and all the other things that belong to noble goodness follow from them.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:188 · 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 5:656b (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)

Scripture

1 Tim 1:5 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

“Are God”: a bold phrase; the union of faith and love is God's own life in the believer (some translate “are of God”).

Cite this passage

Ign. Eph. 14.1 (PG 5:656b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/14/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Eph. 14.1 (PG 5:656b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/14/1/).