To the Magnesians 12.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:208

Ὀναίμην ὑμῶν κατὰ πάντα, ἐάνπερ ἄξιος ὦ. εἰ γὰρ καὶ δέδεμαι, πρὸς ἕνα τῶν λελυμένων ὑμῶν οὐκ εἰμί. οἶδα ὅτι οὐ φυσιοῦσθε· Ἰησοῦν γὰρ Χριστὸν ἔχετε ἐν ἑαυτοῖς· καὶ μᾶλλον, ὅταν ἐπαινῶ ὑμᾶς, οἶδα, ὅτι ἐντρέπεσθε, ὡς γέγραπται, ὅτι ὁ δίκαιος ἑαυτοῦ κατήγορος.

English · Claude translation

May I have joy of you in every way, if indeed I am worthy. For even if I am in chains, I am not comparable to one of you who are free. I know that you are not puffed up, for you have Jesus Christ in yourselves; and more than that, when I praise you, I know that you feel ashamed, as it is written, “The righteous is his own accuser.”

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

Prov 18:17 · quotation, medium confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): ὀ δίκαιος → ὁ δίκαιος.

Cite this passage

Ign. Magn. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/12/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Magn. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/12/1/).