Sophia Scriptura

To the Romans 10.3

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

Summary: The letter is dated 24 August.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:238

ἔγραψα δὲ ὑμῖν ταῦτα τῇ πρὸ ἐννέα καλανδῶν Σεπτεμβρίων. ἔρρωσθε εἰς τέλος ἐν ὑπομονῇ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

English · Claude translation

I have written these things to you on the ninth day before the Kalends of September. Farewell to the end, in the endurance of Jesus Christ.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:238 · 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 5:696c (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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Notes

Translation notes

  • “The ninth day before the Kalends of September”: 24 August. The only date given in Ignatius's letters; the year is not stated.
  • Some translations give 23 August, counting the Roman date differently.

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Ign. Rom. 10.3 (PG 5:696c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-romans/10/3/).

Plain text
Ign. Rom. 10.3 (PG 5:696c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-romans/10/3/).

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