Sophia Scriptura

To the Philadelphians 3.1

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

Summary: Avoid false teachers; Ignatius found the church purified, not divided.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:240

Ἀπέχεσθε τῶν κακῶν βοτανῶν, ἅστινας οὐ γεωργεῖ Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, διὰ τὸ μὴ εἶναι αὐτοὺς φυτείαν πατρός· οὐχ ὅτι παρʼ ὑμῖν μερισμὸν εὗρον, ἀλλʼ ἀποδιυλισμόν.

English · Claude translation

Keep away from evil plants, which Jesus Christ does not cultivate, because they are not the Father's planting. Not that I found division among you, but rather a filtering.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:240 · 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 5:700a (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
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • “A filtering” (ἀποδιυλισμόν): the church had strained out the troublemakers (compare Ign. Rom. 0).

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing; stray mark)): ὰποδιῡλισμόν → ἀποδιυλισμόν.

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Ign. Phld. 3.1 (PG 5:700a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-philadelphians/3/1/).

Plain text
Ign. Phld. 3.1 (PG 5:700a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-philadelphians/3/1/).

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