To the Romans 7.1

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

Summary: The devil wants to turn Ignatius from God; the Romans must not help him.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:234

Ὁ ἄρχων τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου διαρπάσαι με βούλεται καὶ τὴν εἰς θεόν μου γνώμην διαφθεῖραι. μηδεὶς οὖν τῶν παρόντων ὑμῶν βοηθείτω αὐτῷ· μᾶλλον ἐμοῦ γίνεσθε, τουτέστιν τοῦ θεοῦ. μὴ λαλεῖτε Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, κόσμον δὲ ἐπιθυμεῖτε.

English · Claude translation

The ruler of this age wants to snatch me away and to corrupt my purpose toward God. Let none of you who are there help him; rather be on my side, that is, on God's. Do not speak of Jesus Christ while you desire the world.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:234 · 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 5:693a (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)
Topics: Martyrdom

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Ign. Rom. 7.1 (PG 5:693a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-romans/7/1/).

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Ign. Rom. 7.1 (PG 5:693a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-romans/7/1/).

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