Sophia Scriptura

To the Ephesians 12.2

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

Summary: Martyrs pass through Ephesus on their way to death, as Paul did.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:186

πάροδός ἐστε τῶν εἰς θεὸν ἀναιρουμένων, Παύλου συμμύσται τοῦ ἡγιασμένου, τοῦ μεμαρτυρημένου, ἀξιομακαρίστου, οὗ γένοιτό μοι ὑπὸ τὰ ἴχνη εὑρεθῆναι, ὅταν θεοῦ ἐπιτύχω, ὃς ἐν πάσῃ ἐπιστολῇ μνημονεύει ὑμῶν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ.

English · Claude translation

You are the highway for those who are being killed for God's sake; fellow initiates with Paul, who was sanctified, who was martyred, worthy of all blessing, in whose footsteps may I be found when I attain to God, who in every letter remembers you in Christ Jesus.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:186 · 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 5:656a (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
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Highway” (πάροδος): martyrs from the East passed through Ephesus on the way to Rome, as Paul had (Acts 20).
  • “Who was martyred” (τοῦ μεμαρτυρημένου): or “who was well attested.”
  • “In every letter”: an overstatement; or perhaps “in all his letter,” meaning Paul's letter to the Ephesians.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing); punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): ἡγιασμένου. τοῦ → ἡγιασμένου, τοῦ; οὖ γένοιτό → οὗ γένοιτό.

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Ign. Eph. 12.2 (PG 5:656a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/12/2/).

Plain text
Ign. Eph. 12.2 (PG 5:656a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/12/2/).

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