The Letters

by Ignatius of Antioch

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Published January 26, 2015

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"Ignatius of Antioch (Ancient Greek: Ἰγνάτιος Ἀντιοχείας, Ignátios Antiokheías; ad c. 35 or 50 – 98 to 117), also known as Ignatius Theophorus (Ιγνάτιος ὁ Θεοφόρος, Ignátios ho Theophóros, lit. "the God-bearing"), was an Apostolic Father and the third bishop of Antioch. He was reputedly a student of John the Apostle. En route to Rome, where he met his martyrdom by being fed to wild beasts, he wrote a series of letters which have been preserved as an example of very early Christian theology. Important topics addressed in these letters include ecclesiology, the sacraments, and the role of bishops."

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Published by SVS press.

Contains the 7 authentic Ignatian letters as well as the later c. 4th century extensions created by an unknown person.

"It is this fitting that you should run together in accordance with the mind of your bishop, as indeed you do. For your justly renowned presbytery, worthy of God, is so attuned to the bishop as the strings are to the harp. Therefore Jesus Christ is sung in your concord and harmonious love. And each of you should join the chorus, so that in a harmonious concord, and taking up God's note in unity, you may sing to the Father with a single voice through Jesus Christ, so that he may both hear you, and acknowledge you, through what you do well, as limbs of his own Son. It is profitable, therefore, that you should enjoy blameless unity, so that you may participate in God always."
- St. Ignatius of Antioch to the Ephesians