Sophia Scriptura

To the Smyrnaeans 13.1

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

Summary: Greetings to families and to the consecrated women.

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

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:266

Ἀσπάζομαι τοὺς οἴκους τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ τέκνοις καὶ τὰς παρθένους τὰς λεγομένας χήρας. ἔρρωσθέ μοι ἐν δυνάμει πατρός. ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς Φίλων σὺν ἐμοὶ ὤν.

English · Claude translation

I greet the households of my brothers with their wives and children, and the virgins who are called widows. Farewell in the power of the Father. Philo, who is with me, greets you.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:266 · 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
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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Topics
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Notes

Translation notes

  • “The virgins who are called widows”: apparently unmarried women enrolled with the widows supported by the church (compare 1 Tim 5:3–16).
  • Some manuscripts read “in the power of the Spirit”; the Ante-Nicene Fathers translation (1885) has “the power of the Holy Ghost.”

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Ign. Smyrn. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/13/1/).

Plain text
Ign. Smyrn. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/13/1/).

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