To the Magnesians 8.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:204

οἱ γὰρ θειότατοι προφῆται κατὰ Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν ἔζησαν. διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἐδιώχθησαν, ἐμπνεόμενοι ὑπὸ τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ, εἰς τὸ πληροφορηθῆναι τοὺς ἀπειθοῦντας, ὅτι εἶς θεός ἐστιν, ὁ φανερώσας ἑαυτὸν διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, ὅς ἐστιν αὐτοῦ λόγος ἀπὸ σιγῆς προελθών, ὃς κατὰ πάντα εὐηρέστησεν τῷ πέμψαντι αὐτόν.

English · Claude translation

For the most godly prophets lived according to Christ Jesus. That is why they were persecuted, being inspired by his grace, so that the disobedient might be fully convinced that there is one God, who revealed himself through Jesus Christ his Son, who is his Word that came forth from silence, who in every way pleased the one who sent him.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:204 · 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 5:669a (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

John 8:29 · echo, medium confidence
John 1:1 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“His Word that came forth from silence” (αὐτοῦ λόγος ἀπὸ σιγῆς προελθών): some later manuscripts read “his eternal Word, not coming forth from silence,” probably altered to avoid the language of later Gnostic teachers. The Ante-Nicene Fathers translation (1885) follows that later reading.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing); digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong letter)): ἐνπνεόμενοι → ἐμπνεόμενοι; ἁπὸ σιγῆς → ἀπὸ σιγῆς.

Cite this passage

Ign. Magn. 8.2 (PG 5:669a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/8/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Magn. 8.2 (PG 5:669a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/8/2/).