Sophia Scriptura

To the Ephesians 15.3

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

Summary: Live as temples in which God dwells.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:188–190

οὐδὲν λανθάνει τὸν κύριον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ κρυπτὰ ἡμῶν ἐγγὺς αὐτῷ ἐστιν. πάντα οὖν ποιῶμεν ὡς αὐτοῦ ἐν ἡμῖν κατοικοῦντος, ἵνα ὦμεν αὐτοῦ ναοὶ καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν ἡμῖν θεὸς ἡμῶν· ὅπερ καὶ ἔστιν καὶ φανήσεται πρὸ προσώπου ἡμῶν, ἐξ ὧν δικαίως ἀγαπῶμεν αὐτόν.

English · Claude translation

Nothing is hidden from the Lord; even our secrets are near him. So let us do all things as though he were dwelling in us, so that we may be his temples and he may be our God within us, as indeed he is, and as he will be made manifest before our face; for which reason we rightly love him.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:188–190 · 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 5:657a (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.
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Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): ἐξ ὦν → ἐξ ὧν.

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Ign. Eph. 15.3 (PG 5:657a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/15/3/).

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Ign. Eph. 15.3 (PG 5:657a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/15/3/).

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