# To the Smyrnaeans 1.2

- Author: [Ignatius of Antioch](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/ignatius-of-antioch/)
- Work: [To the Smyrnaeans](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/) (*Ad Smyrnaeos*)
- Date: ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135) (disputed)
- 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 (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/1/2/

Summary: Christ was truly crucified; through his resurrection he gathers Jews and Gentiles into one church.

## Greek text

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 translation (Claude)

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.

## Scripture references

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

## 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).

## Citation (SBL)

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