To the Ephesians 17.2

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

Summary: Jesus Christ is the knowledge of God; why perish by ignoring him?

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:190

διὰ τί δὲ οὐ πάντες φρόνιμοι γινόμεθα λαβόντες θεοῦ γνῶσιν, ὅ ἐστιν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός; τί μωρῶς ἀπολλύμεθα, ἀγνοοῦντες τὸ χάρισμα, ὃ πέπομφεν ἀληθῶς ὁ κύριος;

English · Claude translation

Why do we not all become wise, having received the knowledge of God, which is Jesus Christ? Why do we perish in folly, not recognizing the gift that the Lord has truly sent?

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:190 · 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 5:657b–657c (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)
Topics: Christology

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Ign. Eph. 17.2 (PG 5:657b–657c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/17/2/).

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Ign. Eph. 17.2 (PG 5:657b–657c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/17/2/).

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