To the Ephesians 10.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:184

ἀδελφοὶ αὐτῶν εὑρεθῶμεν τῇ ἐπιεικείᾳ· μιμηταὶ δὲ τοῦ κυρίου σπουδάζωμεν εἶναι, τίς πλέον ἀδικηθῇ, τίς ἀποστερηθῇ, τίς ἀθετηθῇ· ἵνα μὴ τοῦ διαβόλου βοτάνη τις εὑρεθῇ ἐν ὑμῖν, ἀλλʼ ἐν πάσῃ ἁγνείᾳ καὶ σωφροσύνῃ μένητε ἐν Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ σαρκικῶς καὶ πνευματικῶς.

English · Claude translation

Let us be found their brothers by our forbearance, and let us be eager to be imitators of the Lord (who was more wronged, who more defrauded, who more rejected?), so that no weed of the devil may be found among you, but that in all purity and self-control you may remain in Jesus Christ, in flesh and in spirit.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:184 · 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 5:653a–653b (found by text match)

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.

Scripture

1 Cor 6:7 · echo, medium confidence
Matt 13:25 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

“Who was more wronged … ?”: or “(vying to see) who can be more wronged,” that is, competing in bearing injury.

Cite this passage

Ign. Eph. 10.3 (PG 5:653a–653b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/10/3/).

Plain text

Ign. Eph. 10.3 (PG 5:653a–653b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/10/3/).