Sophia Scriptura

To the Smyrnaeans 13.1

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

Summary: Greetings to families and to the consecrated women.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:266

Ἀσπάζομαι τοὺς οἴκους τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ τέκνοις καὶ τὰς παρθένους τὰς λεγομένας χήρας. ἔρρωσθέ μοι ἐν δυνάμει πατρός. ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς Φίλων σὺν ἐμοὶ ὤν.

English · Claude translation

I greet the households of my brothers with their wives and children, and the virgins who are called widows. Farewell in the power of the Father. Philo, who is with me, greets you.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:266 · 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.
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Notes

Translation notes

  • “The virgins who are called widows”: apparently unmarried women enrolled with the widows supported by the church (compare 1 Tim 5:3–16).
  • Some manuscripts read “in the power of the Spirit”; the Ante-Nicene Fathers translation (1885) has “the power of the Holy Ghost.”

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Ign. Smyrn. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/13/1/).

Plain text
Ign. Smyrn. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/13/1/).

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