THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE
ANTIOCHIANS.
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GNATIUS, who is also called Theophorus, to the church sojourning in Syria, which has obtained mercy from God, and been elected by Christ, and which first[1] received the name of Christ, [wishes] happiness in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Chap. i.—Cautions against error.
The Lord has rendered my bonds light and easy since I learnt that you are in peace, and that you live in all harmony both of the flesh and spirit. "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,[2] beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,"[3] guarding against those heresies of the wicked one which have broken in upon us, to the deceiving and destruction of those that accept of them; but that ye give heed to the doctrine of the apostles, and believe both the law and the prophets: that ye reject every Jewish and Gentile error, and neither introduce a multiplicity of gods, nor yet deny Christ under the pretence of [maintaining] the unity of God.
Chap. ii.—The true doctrine respecting God and Christ.
For Moses, the faithful servant of God, when he said, "The Lord thy God is one Lord,"[4] and thus proclaimed
- ↑ Comp. Acts xi. 26.
- ↑ Literally, "in the Lord."
- ↑ Eph. iv. 1.
- ↑ Deut. vi. 4; Mark xii. 29.