Sophia Scriptura

To the Smyrnaeans 10.1

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

Summary: Ignatius thanks them for welcoming his companions.

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

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:262

Φίλωνα καὶ Ῥέον Ἀγαθόπουν, οἳ ἐπηκολούθησάν μοι εἰς λόγον θεοῦ, καλῶς ἐποιήσατε ὑποδεξάμενοι ὡς διακόνους θεοῦ· οἳ καὶ εὐχαριστοῦσιν τῷ κυρίῳ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, ὅτι αὐτοὺς ἀνεπαύσατε κατὰ πάντα τρόπον. οὐδὲν ὑμῖν οὐ μὴ ἀπολεῖται.

English · Claude translation

Philo and Rheus Agathopus, who followed me for the word of God, you did well to receive as servants of God. They also give thanks to the Lord for you, because you refreshed them in every way. Nothing will be lost to you.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:262 · 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 5:716a–716b (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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • “Servants of God” (διακόνους θεοῦ): Philo was a deacon (Ign. Phld. 11.1), but the phrase here is probably general.
  • Other manuscripts read “servants of Christ God”; the Ante-Nicene Fathers translation (1885) follows them (“servants of Christ our God”).

Cite this passage

Ign. Smyrn. 10.1 (PG 5:716a–716b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/10/1/).

Plain text
Ign. Smyrn. 10.1 (PG 5:716a–716b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/10/1/).

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