To the Ephesians 19.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christ's coming broke the power of magic and evil and began the defeat of death.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:192–194

ὅθεν ἐλύετο πᾶσα μαγεία καὶ πᾶς δεσμὸς ἠφανίζετο κακίας· ἄγνοια καθῃρεῖτο, παλαιὰ βασιλεία διεφθείρετο θεοῦ ἀνθρωπίνως φανερουμένου εἰς καινότητα ἀϊδίου ζωῆς· ἀρχὴν δὲ ἐλάμβανεν τὸ παρὰ θεῷ ἀπηρτισμένον. ἔνθεν τὰ πάντα συνεκινεῖτο διὰ τὸ μελετᾶσθαι θανάτου κατάλυσιν.

English · Claude translation

From then on all magic was dissolved and every bond of wickedness vanished; ignorance was abolished, and the ancient kingdom was destroyed, when God appeared in human form to bring the newness of eternal life; and what had been prepared by God began to take effect. Hence all things were thrown into commotion, because the abolition of death was being prepared.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:192–194 · 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 5:660b (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

Rom 6:4 · allusion, medium confidence
2 Tim 1:10 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Ign. Eph. 19.3 (PG 5:660b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/19/3/).

Plain text

Ign. Eph. 19.3 (PG 5:660b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/19/3/).