Sophia Scriptura

To the Smyrnaeans 9.2

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

Summary: Ignatius thanks the Smyrnaeans for their love.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:262

πάντα οὖν ὑμῖν ἐν χάριτι περισσευέτω· ἄξιοι γάρ ἐστε. κατὰ πάντα με ἀνεπαύσατε, καὶ ὑμᾶς Ἰησοῦς Χριστός. ἀπόντα με καὶ παρόντα ἠγαπήσατε. ἀμοιβὴ ὑμῖν ὁ θεός, διʼ ὃν πάντα ὑπομένοντες αὐτοῦ τεύξεσθε.

English · Claude translation

May all things, then, abound for you in grace, for you are worthy. You have refreshed me in every way, and Jesus Christ will refresh you. You loved me both when I was absent and when I was present. God is your reward; if you endure all things for his sake, you will attain to him.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:262 · 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 5:716a (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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): καὶ πάροντα → καὶ παρόντα.

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Ign. Smyrn. 9.2 (PG 5:716a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/9/2/).

Plain text
Ign. Smyrn. 9.2 (PG 5:716a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/9/2/).

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