To the Ephesians 7.2

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

Summary: Christ is the one physician, both human and divine.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:180

εἷς ἰατρός ἐστιν, σαρκικός τε καὶ πνευματικός, γεννητὸς καὶ ἀγέννητος, ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ θεός, ἐν θανάτῳ ζωὴ ἀληθινή, καὶ ἐκ Μαρίας καὶ ἐκ θεοῦ, πρῶτον παθητὸς καὶ τότε ἀπαθής. Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν.

English · Claude translation

There is one physician, both fleshly and spiritual, born and unborn, God in man, true life in death, both from Mary and from God, first subject to suffering and then beyond suffering: Jesus Christ our Lord.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:180 · 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
Also in: PG 5:649b–652a (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.
Topics: Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“Born and unborn” (γεννητὸς καὶ ἀγέννητος): born as man, unbegotten as God. Some manuscripts spell the words γενητὸς καὶ ἀγένητος (“come into being and not come into being”), a difference that later became important in the Arian controversy.
“God in man” (ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ θεός): other witnesses, including Athanasius's quotation, read “God come in the flesh.”

Cite this passage

Ign. Eph. 7.2 (PG 5:649b–652a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/7/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Eph. 7.2 (PG 5:649b–652a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/7/2/).

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