To the Smyrnaeans 13.2

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

Summary: Final personal greetings.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:266

ἀσπάζομαι τὸν οἶκον Ταουΐας, ἣν εὔχομαι ἑδρᾶσθαι πίστει καὶ ἀγάπῃ σαρκικῇ τε καὶ πνευματικῇ. ἀσπάζομαι Ἄλκην, τὸ ποθητόν μοι ὄνομα, καὶ Δάφνον τὸν ἀσύγκριτον καὶ Εὔτεκνον καὶ πάντας κατʼ ὄνομα. ἔρρωσθε ἐν χάριτι θεοῦ.

English · Claude translation

I greet the household of Tavia, whom I pray may be established in faith and love, both of flesh and of spirit. I greet Alce, a name dear to me, and the incomparable Daphnus and Eutecnus and everyone by name. Farewell in the grace of God.

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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; 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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Ign. Smyrn. 13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/13/2/).

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Ign. Smyrn. 13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/13/2/).

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