To the Magnesians 5.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Like coins, people bear the stamp of either the world or God; Christ's life is in those willing to share his death.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:200

ὥσπερ γάρ ἐστιν νομίσματα δύο, ὃ μὲν θεοῦ, ὃ δὲ κόσμου, καὶ ἕκαστον αὐτῶν ἴδιον χαρακτῆρα ἐπικείμενον ἔχει, οἱ ἄπιστοι τοῦ κόσμου τούτου, οἱ δὲ πιστοὶ ἐν ἀγάπῃ χαρακτῆρα θεοῦ πατρὸς διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, διʼ οὗ ἐὰν μὴ αὐθαιρέτως ἔχωμεν τὸ ἀποθανεῖν εἰς τὸ αὐτοῦ πάθος, τὸ ζῆν αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ἡμῖν.

English · Claude translation

for just as there are two coinages, one of God and one of the world, and each has its own stamp impressed on it, so the unbelievers bear the stamp of this world, and the believers in love bear the stamp of God the Father through Jesus Christ. Unless we willingly choose to die through him into his suffering, his life is not in us.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:200 · 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 5:665b–668a (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 6:5 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Eschatology, Martyrdom

Cite this passage

Ign. Magn. 5.2 (PG 5:665b–668a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/5/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Magn. 5.2 (PG 5:665b–668a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/5/2/).