Sophia Scriptura

To the Smyrnaeans 11.2

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

Summary: Smyrna should send an envoy to congratulate the church at Antioch on its peace.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:264

ἵνα οὖν ὑμῶν τέλειον γένηται τὸ ἔργον καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ ἐν οὐρανῷ, πρέπει εἰς τιμὴν θεοῦ χειροτονῆσαι τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ὑμῶν θεοπρεσβεύτην, εἰς τὸ γενόμενον ἐν Συρίᾳ συγχαρῆναι αὐτοῖς, ὅτι εἰρηνεύουσιν καὶ ἀπέλαβον τὸ ἴδιον μέγεθος καὶ ἀπεκατεστάθη αὐτοῖς τὸ ἴδιον σωματεῖον.

English · Claude translation

So that your work may be complete both on earth and in heaven, it is fitting for your church, for the honor of God, to appoint a godly ambassador to go to Syria and rejoice with them because they are at peace and have recovered their proper greatness, and their proper body has been restored to them.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:264 · 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
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.
Topics
Church office

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Their proper body” (τὸ ἴδιον σωματεῖον): the church's corporate life, now restored.

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Ign. Smyrn. 11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/11/2/).

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Ign. Smyrn. 11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/11/2/).

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