To the Smyrnaeans 1.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:252

ἀληθῶς ἐπὶ Ποντίου Πιλάτου καὶ Ἡρώδου τετράρχου καθηλωμένον ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἐν σαρκί, ἀφʼ οὗ καρποῦ ἡμεῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ θεομακαρίστου αὐτοῦ πάθους, ἵνα ἄρῃ σύσσημον εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας διὰ τῆς ἀναστάσεως εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους καὶ πιστοὺς αὐτοῦ, εἴτε ἐν Ἰουδαίοις εἴτε ἐν ἔθνεσιν, ἐν ἑνὶ σώματι τῆς ἐκκλησίας αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

truly nailed for us in the flesh under Pontius Pilate and Herod the tetrarch (we are of its fruit, of his divinely blessed suffering), so that through his resurrection he might raise a standard for the ages for his saints and believers, whether among Jews or among Gentiles, in the one body of his church.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:252 · 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 5:708b (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

Isa 5:26 · allusion, medium confidence
Isa 49:22 · echo, low confidence
Eph 2:16 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“We are of its fruit”: believers are the fruit of the cross, pictured as a tree.
“Raise a standard” (ἄρῃ σύσσημον): a signal raised to gather the nations (Isa 5:26; 49:22).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): ἀφʼ οὖ καρποῦ → ἀφʼ οὗ καρποῦ.

Cite this passage

Ign. Smyrn. 1.2 (PG 5:708b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/1/2/).

Plain text

Ign. Smyrn. 1.2 (PG 5:708b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/1/2/).