Sophia Scriptura

To the Smyrnaeans 10.2

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

Summary: The Smyrnaeans were not ashamed of Ignatius's chains, nor will Christ be ashamed of them.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:262

ἀντίψυχον ὑμῶν τὸ πνεῦμά μου καὶ τὰ δεσμά μου, ἃ οὐχ ὑπερηφανήσατε οὐδὲ ἐπῃσχύνθητε. οὐδὲ ὑμᾶς ἐπαισχυνθήσεται ἡ τελεία ἐλπίς, Ἰησοῦς Χριστός.

English · Claude translation

My spirit is a ransom for you, and so are my chains, which you did not look down on and were not ashamed of. Nor will the perfect hope, Jesus Christ, be ashamed of you.

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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 5:716b (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)
Scripture
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • “A ransom” (ἀντίψυχον): see Ign. Pol. 2.3.

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Ign. Smyrn. 10.2 (PG 5:716b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/10/2/).

Plain text
Ign. Smyrn. 10.2 (PG 5:716b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/10/2/).

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