Sophia Scriptura

To the Ephesians 6.1

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

Summary: The bishop is to be received as the Lord who sent him.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:178–180

Καὶ ὅσον βλέπει τις σιγῶντα ἐπίσκοπον, πλειόνως αὐτὸν φοβείσθω· πάντα γάρ, ὃν πέμπει ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης εἰς ἰδίαν οἰκονομίαν, οὕτως δεῖ ἡμᾶς αὐτὸν δέχεσθαι, ὡς αὐτὸν τὸν πέμψαντα, τὸν οὖν ἐπίσκοπον δῆλον ὅτι ὡς αὐτὸν κύριον δεῖ προσβλέπειν.

English · Claude translation

And the more anyone sees the bishop keeping silent, the more he should fear him. For everyone whom the master of the house sends to manage his own household we must receive as we would the one who sent him. It is clear, then, that we must regard the bishop as the Lord himself.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:178–180 · 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 5:649a–649b (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
Church office

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Keeping silent”: perhaps the bishop Onesimus was a quiet man; silence has a positive value for Ignatius (15.1–2; 19.1).

Cite this passage

Ign. Eph. 6.1 (PG 5:649a–649b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/6/1/).

Plain text
Ign. Eph. 6.1 (PG 5:649a–649b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/6/1/).

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