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To the Ephesians 21.2

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

Summary: Ignatius asks prayer for the church in Syria and says farewell.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:194–196

προσεύχεσθε ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐκκλησίας τῆς ἐν Συρίᾳ, ὅθεν δεδεμένος εἰς Ῥώμην ἀπάγομαι, ἔσχατος ὢν τῶν ἐκεῖ πιστῶν, ὥσπερ ἠξιώθην εἰς τιμὴν θεοῦ εὑρεθῆναι. ἔρρωσθε ἐν θεῷ πατρὶ καὶ ἐν Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ, τῇ κοινῇ ἐλπίδι ἡμῶν.

English · Claude translation

Pray for the church in Syria, from where I am being led in chains to Rome, the least of the faithful there, as I have been counted worthy to be found for the honor of God. Farewell in God the Father and in Jesus Christ, our common hope.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:194–196 · 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
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
Topics
Prayer, Martyrdom

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Ign. Eph. 21.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/21/2/).

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Ign. Eph. 21.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/21/2/).

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