To the Philadelphians 6.3

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

Summary: Ignatius has a clear conscience toward the Philadelphians.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:244

εὐχαριστῶ δὲ τῷ θεῷ μου, ὅτι εὐσυνείδητός εἰμι ἐν ὑμῖν καὶ οὐκ ἔχει τις καυχήσασθαι οὔτε λάθρα οὔτε φανερῶς, ὅτι ἐβάρησά τινα ἐν μικρῷ ἢ ἐν μεγάλῳ. καὶ πᾶσι δέ, ἐν οἷς ἐλάλησα, εὔχομαι, ἵνα μὴ εἰς μαρτύριον αὐτὸ κτήσωνται.

English · Claude translation

I thank my God that I have a good conscience about you, and no one can boast, either in secret or openly, that I burdened anyone in small matters or in great. And I pray for all among whom I spoke, that they may not have it as a testimony against them.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:244 · 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 5:701b (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)

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Ign. Phld. 6.3 (PG 5:701b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-philadelphians/6/3/).

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Ign. Phld. 6.3 (PG 5:701b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-philadelphians/6/3/).

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