# To the Smyrnaeans 6.1

- 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 24:258; 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 5:712b (found by text match)
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/6/1/

Summary: Even heavenly powers are judged if they do not believe in Christ's blood; faith and love are everything.

## Greek text

Μηδεὶς πλανάσθω· καὶ τὰ ἐπουράνια καὶ ἡ δόξα τῶν ἀγγέλων καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες ὁρατοί τε καὶ ἀόρατοι, ἐὰν μὴ πιστεύσωσιν εἰς τὸ αἷμα Χριστοῦ, κἀκείνοις κρίσις ἐστίν· ὁ χωρῶν χωρείτω. τόπος μηδένα φυσιούτω· τὸ γὰρ ὅλον ἐστὶν πίστις καὶ ἀγάπη, ὧν οὐδὲν προκέκριται.

## English translation (Claude)

Let no one be deceived: even the heavenly beings and the glory of the angels and the rulers, visible and invisible, if they do not believe in the blood of Christ, face judgment too. “Let the one who can accept it accept it.” Let no one be puffed up by position; for faith and love are everything, and nothing is preferred to them.

## Scripture references

- Matt 19:12: quotation, high confidence
- Col 1:16: echo, medium confidence

## Citation (SBL)

Ign. Smyrn. 6.1 (PG 5:712b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/6/1/).