To the Smyrnaeans 7.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Avoid the false teachers and attend to the prophets and the gospel.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:258–260

πρέπον ἐστὶν ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν τοιούτων καὶ μήτε κατʼ ἰδίαν περὶ αὐτῶν λαλεῖν μήτε κοινῇ, προσέχειν δὲ τοῖς προφήταις, ἐξαιρέτως δὲ τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ, ἐν ᾧ τὸ πάθος ἡμῖν δεδήλωται καὶ ἡ ἀνάστασις τετελείωται. τοὺς δὲ μερισμοὺς φεύγετε ὡς ἀρχὴν κακῶν.

English · Claude translation

It is fitting to keep away from such people and not to speak about them either in private or in public, but to pay attention to the prophets, and especially to the gospel, in which the Passion has been made clear to us and the resurrection has been accomplished. Flee divisions as the beginning of evils.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:258–260 · 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 5:713a (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)

Topics

Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite this passage

Ign. Smyrn. 7.2 (PG 5:713a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/7/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Smyrn. 7.2 (PG 5:713a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/7/2/).