Sophia Scriptura

To the Trallians 8.1

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

Summary: Renew yourselves in faith and love, which are Christ's flesh and blood.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:218

Οὐκ ἐπεὶ ἔγνων τοιοῦτόν τι ἐν ὑμῖν, ἀλλὰ προφυλάσσω ὑμᾶς ὄντας μου ἀγαπητούς, προορῶν τὰς ἐνέδρας τοῦ διαβόλου. ὑμεῖς οὖν τὴν πραϋπάθειαν ἀναλαβόντες ἀνακτήσασθε ἑαυτοὺς ἐν πίστει, ὅ ἐστιν σὰρξ τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ ἐν ἀγάπῃ, ὅ ἐστιν αἷμα Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

English · Claude translation

Not that I have learned of any such thing among you; but I am guarding you in advance, since you are my beloved, foreseeing the snares of the devil. So take up gentleness and renew yourselves in faith, which is the flesh of the Lord, and in love, which is the blood of Jesus Christ.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:218 · 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 5:681a (found by text match)
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
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Faith … the flesh of the Lord … love … the blood of Jesus Christ”: faith and love are pictured as the believer's nourishment, perhaps with a Eucharistic overtone.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (missing comma); punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): ἀγαπητούς. προορῶν → ἀγαπητούς, προορῶν; ἐν πίστει ὅ ἐστιν → ἐν πίστει, ὅ ἐστιν.

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Ign. Trall. 8.1 (PG 5:681a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-trallians/8/1/).

Plain text
Ign. Trall. 8.1 (PG 5:681a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-trallians/8/1/).

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