Sophia Scriptura

To the Smyrnaeans 5.1

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

Summary: Those who deny Christ's real suffering are themselves denied by him.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:256

Ὅν τινες ἀγνοοῦντες ἀρνοῦνται, μᾶλλον δὲ ἠρνήθησαν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, ὄντες συνήγοροι τοῦ θανάτου μᾶλλον ἢ τῆς ἀληθείας· οὓς οὐκ ἔπεισαν αἱ προφητεῖαι οὐδὲ ὁ νόμος Μωύσεως, ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ μέχρι νῦν τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, οὐδὲ τὰ ἡμέτερα τῶν κατʼ ἄνδρα παθήματα.

English · Claude translation

Some deny him in ignorance, or rather have been denied by him, being advocates of death rather than of the truth. The prophecies have not persuaded them, nor the law of Moses, nor even to this day the gospel, nor the sufferings of each of us.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:256 · 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
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PG 5:712a (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
Heresy

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Ign. Smyrn. 5.1 (PG 5:712a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/5/1/).

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Ign. Smyrn. 5.1 (PG 5:712a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/5/1/).

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