To the Magnesians 6.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:200–202

Ἐπεὶ οὖν ἐν τοῖς προγεγραμμένοις προσώποις τὸ πᾶν πλῆθος ἐθεώρησα ἐν πίστει καὶ ἠγάπησα, παραινῶ, ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ θεοῦ σπουδάζετε πάντα πράσσειν, προκαθημένου τοῦ ἐπισκόπου εἰς τόπον θεοῦ καὶ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων εἰς τόπον συνεδρίου τῶν ἀποστόλων, καὶ τῶν διακόνων τῶν ἐμοὶ γλυκυτάτων πεπιστευμένων διακονίαν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὃς πρὸ αἰώνων παρὰ πατρὶ ἦν καὶ ἐν τέλει ἐφάνη.

English · Claude translation

Since, then, in the persons mentioned above I have seen your whole congregation in faith and have loved it, I urge you: be eager to do all things in godly concord, with the bishop presiding in the place of God and the presbyters in the place of the council of the apostles, and the deacons, most dear to me, entrusted with the service of Jesus Christ, who was with the Father before the ages and appeared at the end.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:200–202 · 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 5:668a–668b (found by text match)

Text

As printed in Lake, LCL 24. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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

John 1:1 · echo, medium confidence
Heb 1:2 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Church office, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“In the place of God” (εἰς τόπον θεοῦ): some manuscripts read “as a type (τύπον) of God.”

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing breathing and accent)): δς πρὸ → ὃς πρὸ.

Cite this passage

Ign. Magn. 6.1 (PG 5:668a–668b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/6/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Magn. 6.1 (PG 5:668a–668b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/6/1/).