To the Smyrnaeans 6.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The false teachers show no love or care for those in need.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:258

καταμάθετε δὲ τοὺς ἑτεροδοξοῦντας εἰς τὴν χάριν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τὴν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐλθοῦσαν, πῶς ἐναντίοι εἰσὶν τῇ γνώμῃ τοῦ θεοῦ. περὶ ἀγάπης οὐ μέλει αὐτοῖς, οὐ περὶ χήρας, οὐ περὶ ὀρφανοῦ, οὐ περὶ θλιβομένου, οὐ περὶ δεδεμένου ἢ λελυμένου, οὐ περὶ πεινῶντος ἢ διψῶντος.

English · Claude translation

But notice those who hold other opinions about the grace of Jesus Christ that came to us, how contrary they are to the mind of God. They have no concern for love, none for the widow, none for the orphan, none for the oppressed, none for the prisoner or the one released, none for the hungry or the thirsty.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:258 · 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 5:712b–712c (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

Jas 1:27 · echo, medium confidence
Matt 25:35 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy, Ethics

Cite this passage

Ign. Smyrn. 6.2 (PG 5:712b–712c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/6/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Smyrn. 6.2 (PG 5:712b–712c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/6/2/).