Epistles

Ignatius of Antioch

Ignatius of Antioch. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1912.

Ὃν ἐπίσκοπον ἔγνων οὐκ ἀφ̓ ἑαυτοῦ οὐδὲ δἰ ἀνθρώπων κεκτῆσθαι τὴν διακονίαν τὴν εἰς τὸ

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κοινὸν ἀνήκουσαν οὐδὲ κατὰ κενοδοξίαν, ἀλλ̓ ἐν ἀγάπῃ θεοῦ πατρὸς καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ: οὗ καταπέπληγμαι τὴν ἐπιείκειαν, ὃς σιγῶν πλείονα δύναται τῶν μάταια [*](ma/taia GL, om. A, ple/on g. Lightfoot favours the reading of A.) λαλούντων.