Epistles

Ignatius of Antioch

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

Seek, then, to come together more frequently[*](Exhortation to more frequent assemblies) to give thanks[*](It is probable that there is here an allusion to the Eucharist.) and glory to God. For when you gather together frequently the powers of Satan are destroyed, and his mischief is brought to nothing, by the concord of your faith.

There is nothing better than peace, by which every war in heaven and on earth is abolished.