Sophia Scriptura

To the Ephesians 16.1

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

Summary: Those who destroy households will not inherit God's kingdom.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:190

Μὴ πλανᾶσθε, ἀδελφοί μου· οἱ οἰκοφθόροι βασιλείαν θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσιν.

English · Claude translation

Do not be deceived, my brothers: those who corrupt households will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:190 · 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
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

Translation notes

  • “Those who corrupt households” (οἱ οἰκοφθόροι): usually adulterers, who ruin families; here perhaps also those who ruin God's house by false teaching (16.2).

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Ign. Eph. 16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/16/1/).

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Ign. Eph. 16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/16/1/).

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