# To the Smyrnaeans 7.2

- 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 24:258–260; 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 5:713a (found by text match)
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/7/2/

Summary: Avoid the false teachers and attend to the prophets and the gospel.

## Greek text

πρέπον ἐστὶν ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν τοιούτων καὶ μήτε κατʼ ἰδίαν περὶ αὐτῶν λαλεῖν μήτε κοινῇ, προσέχειν δὲ τοῖς προφήταις, ἐξαιρέτως δὲ τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ, ἐν ᾧ τὸ πάθος ἡμῖν δεδήλωται καὶ ἡ ἀνάστασις τετελείωται. τοὺς δὲ μερισμοὺς φεύγετε ὡς ἀρχὴν κακῶν.

## English translation (Claude)

It is fitting to keep away from such people and not to speak about them either in private or in public, but to pay attention to the prophets, and especially to the gospel, in which the Passion has been made clear to us and the resurrection has been accomplished. Flee divisions as the beginning of evils.

## Citation (SBL)

Ign. Smyrn. 7.2 (PG 5:713a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/7/2/).