# To the Magnesians 9.2

- Author: [Ignatius of Antioch](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/ignatius-of-antioch/)
- Work: [To the Magnesians](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/) (*Ad Magnesios*)
- Date: ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135) (disputed)
- Source: Lake, LCL 24:204–206; 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 5:669b (found by text match)
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/9/2/

Summary: The prophets awaited Christ as their teacher, and he raised them from the dead.

## Greek text

πῶς ἡμεῖς δυνησόμεθα ζῆσαι χωρὶς αὐτοῦ, οὗ καὶ οἱ προφῆται μαθηταὶ ὄντες τῷ πνεύματι ὡς διδάσκαλον αὐτὸν προσεδόκων; καὶ διὰ τοῦτο, ὃν δικαίως ἀνέμενον, παρὼν ἤγειρεν αὐτοὺς ἐκ νεκρῶν.

## English translation (Claude)

how shall we be able to live apart from him, whom even the prophets, being his disciples in the Spirit, awaited as their teacher? And for this reason he whom they rightly awaited, when he came, raised them from the dead.

## Scripture references

- Matt 27:52: allusion, medium confidence
- 1 Pet 1:11: echo, low confidence
- 1 Pet 3:19: echo, low confidence

## Citation (SBL)

Ign. Magn. 9.2 (PG 5:669b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/9/2/).