To Polycarp 7.1

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

Summary: News that the church at Antioch is at peace has cheered Ignatius as he goes to martyrdom.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:274

Ἐπειδὴ ἡ ἐκκλησία ἡ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῆς Συρίας εἰρηνεύει, ὡς ἐδηλώθη μοι, διὰ τὴν προσευχὴν ὑμῶν, κἀγὼ εὐθυμότερος ἐγενόμην ἐν ἀμεριμνίᾳ θεοῦ, ἐάνπερ διὰ τοῦ παθεῖν θεοῦ ἐπιτύχω, εἰς τὸ εὑρεθῆναί με ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει ὑμῶν μαθητήν.

English · Claude translation

Since the church in Antioch of Syria is at peace, as has been made known to me, through your prayer, I too have become more cheerful, in a freedom from care that comes from God, if indeed through suffering I may attain to God, so that I may be found a disciple at your resurrection.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:274 · 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 5:725a (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)
Topics: Martyrdom, Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

“At your resurrection” (ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει ὑμῶν): so Lake's text. Some manuscripts read “through your intercession” (ἐν τῇ αἰτήσει ὑμῶν), which many editors prefer.
“Is at peace”: the trouble in the church at Antioch that Ignatius mentions in several letters had ended.

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Ign. Pol. 7.1 (PG 5:725a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-polycarp/7/1/).

Plain text

Ign. Pol. 7.1 (PG 5:725a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-polycarp/7/1/).

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