To the Magnesians 11.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Hold firmly to the real birth, death, and resurrection of Christ under Pontius Pilate.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:208

Ταῦτα δέ, ἀγαπητοί μου, οὐκ ἐπεὶ ἔγνων τινὰς ἐξ ὑμῶν οὕτως ἔχοντας, ἀλλʼ ὡς μικρότερος ὑμῶν θέλω προφυλάσσεσθαι ὑμᾶς, μὴ ἐμπεσεῖν εἰς τὰ ἄγκιστρα τῆς κενοδοξίας, ἀλλὰ πεπληροφορῆσθαι ἐν τῇ γεννήσει καὶ τῷ πάθει καὶ τῇ ἀναστάσει τῇ γενομένῃ ἐν καιρῷ τῆς ἡγεμονίας Ποντίου Πιλάτου· πραχθέντα ἀληθῶς καὶ βεβαίως ὑπὸ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, τῆς ἐλπίδος ἡμῶν, ἧς ἐκτραπῆναι μηδενὶ ὑμῶν γένοιτο.

English · Claude translation

I write these things, my beloved, not because I have learned that any of you are like this, but, as one less than you, I want to warn you in advance not to fall into the hooks of vain opinion, but to be fully convinced of the birth and the suffering and the resurrection that took place in the time of the governorship of Pontius Pilate. These things were truly and certainly done by Jesus Christ, our hope, from which may none of you be turned aside.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:208 · 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

1 Tim 1:1 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Christology, Heresy

Cite this passage

Ign. Magn. 11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/11/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Magn. 11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/11/1/).