To the Ephesians 4.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:176–178

καὶ οἱ κατʼ ἄνδρα δὲ χορὸς γίνεσθε, ἵνα σύμφωνοι ὄντες ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ, χρῶμα θεοῦ λαβόντες ἐν ἑνότητι, ᾅδητε ἐν φωνῇ μιᾷ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τῷ πατρί, ἵνα ὑμῶν καὶ ἀκούσῃ καὶ ἐπιγινώσκῃ, διʼ ὧν εὖ πράσσετε, μέλη ὄντας τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ. χρήσιμον οὖν ἐστὶν ὑμᾶς ἐν ἀμώμῳ ἑνότητι εἶναι, ἵνα καὶ θεοῦ πάντοτε μετέχητε.

English · Claude translation

Each one of you, join the choir, so that, harmonious in concord and taking up God's key in unity, you may sing with one voice through Jesus Christ to the Father, so that he may both hear you and recognize, through your good deeds, that you are members of his Son. It is profitable, then, for you to be in blameless unity, so that you may always share in God.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:176–178 · 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 5:648b (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

Rom 15:6 · echo, medium confidence
1 Cor 12:27 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

“God's key” (χρῶμα θεοῦ): a musical term for the mode or pitch of a melody.

Notes on the original text

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

Cite this passage

Ign. Eph. 4.2 (PG 5:648b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/4/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Eph. 4.2 (PG 5:648b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/4/2/).