# To the Ephesians 2.1

- Author: [Ignatius of Antioch](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/ignatius-of-antioch/)
- Work: [To the Ephesians](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/) (*Ad Ephesios*)
- Date: ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135) (disputed)
- Source: Lake, LCL 24:174; 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 5:645a–645b (found by text match)
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/2/1/

Summary: Ignatius thanks the Ephesian delegates who came to him, especially the deacon Burrhus.

## Greek text

Περὶ δὲ τοῦ συνδούλου μου Βούρρου, τοῦ κατὰ θεὸν διακόνου ὑμῶν ἐν πᾶσιν εὐλογημένου, εὔχομαι παραμεῖναι αὐτὸν εἰς τιμὴν ὑμῶν καὶ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου· καὶ Κρόκος δέ, ὁ θεοῦ ἄξιος καὶ ὑμῶν, ὃν ἐξεμπλάριον τῆς ἀφʼ ὑμῶν ἀγάπης ἀπέλαβον, κατὰ πάντα με ἀνέπαυσεν, ὡς καὶ αὐτὸν ὁ πατὴρ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀναψύξαι, ἅμα Ὀνησίμῳ καὶ Βούρρῳ καὶ Εὔπλῳ καὶ Φρόντωνι, διʼ ὧν πάντας ὑμᾶς κατὰ ἀγάπην εἶδον.

## English translation (Claude)

As for my fellow servant Burrhus, your deacon by God's will, blessed in all things, I pray that he may stay with me, to the honor of you and of the bishop. And Crocus too, worthy of God and of you, whom I received as a living example of your love, has refreshed me in every way (may the Father of Jesus Christ likewise refresh him), together with Onesimus and Burrhus and Euplus and Fronto, in whom I saw all of you in love.

## Translation notes

- “Stay with me” (παραμεῖναι): Burrhus did stay; he later helped Ignatius write (Ign. Phld. 11.2; Ign. Smyrn. 12.1).
- “Living example” (ἐξεμπλάριον): a Latin word (exemplarium) in Greek letters.

## Citation (SBL)

Ign. Eph. 2.1 (PG 5:645a–645b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/2/1/).