Sophia Scriptura

To the Trallians 9.1

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

Summary: Christ was truly born, truly suffered, and truly died.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:220

Κωφώθητε οὖν, ὅταν ὑμῖν χωρὶς Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ λαλῇ τις, τοῦ ἐκ γένους Δαυείδ, τοῦ ἐκ Μαρίας, ὃς ἀληθῶς ἐγεννήθη, ἔφαγέν τε καὶ ἔπιεν, ἀληθῶς ἐδιώχθη ἐπὶ Ποντίου Πιλάτου, ἀληθῶς ἐσταυρώθη καὶ ἀπέθανεν, βλεπόντων τῶν ἐπουρανίων καὶ ἐπιγείων καὶ ὑποχθονίων.

English · Claude translation

Be deaf, then, when anyone speaks to you apart from Jesus Christ, who was of the family of David, who was of Mary, who was truly born, who ate and drank, who was truly persecuted under Pontius Pilate, was truly crucified and died, while those in heaven and on earth and under the earth looked on;

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:220 · 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 5:681b (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.
Scripture
Topics
Christology, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The repeated “truly” (ἀληθῶς) answers the docetists, who said Christ only seemed to suffer (10.1).

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong ending)): Ποντίου Πιλάτον → Ποντίου Πιλάτου.

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Ign. Trall. 9.1 (PG 5:681b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-trallians/9/1/).

Plain text
Ign. Trall. 9.1 (PG 5:681b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-trallians/9/1/).

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