Sophia Scriptura

To the Trallians 8.2

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

Summary: Avoid quarrels that give outsiders reason to blaspheme God's name.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:218–220

μηδεὶς ὑμῶν κατὰ τοῦ πλησίον ἐχέτω. μὴ ἀφορμὰς δίδοτε τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, ἵνα μὴ διʼ ὀλίγους ἄφρονας τὸ ἐν θεῷ πλῆθος βλασφημῆται. Οὐαὶ γάρ, διʼ οὗ ἐπὶ ματαιότητι τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐπί τινων βλασφημεῖται.

English · Claude translation

Let none of you hold anything against his neighbor. Do not give the Gentiles occasions for offense, so that the godly multitude may not be blasphemed because of a few fools. For “Woe to him through whom my name is blasphemed in vain among some.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:218–220 · 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 5:681a (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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is a free form of Isa 52:5 (compare Rom 2:24).

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Ign. Trall. 8.2 (PG 5:681a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-trallians/8/2/).

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Ign. Trall. 8.2 (PG 5:681a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-trallians/8/2/).

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