Epistles

The Ephesians greet you from Smyrna,[*](Final greetings) whence also I am writing to you; they, like yourselves, are here for the glory of God and have in all things given me comfort, together with Polycarp the bishop of the Smyrnaeans. And the other Churches also greet you in honour of Jesus Christ. Farewell in godly concord and may you possess an unhesitating[*](The translation a spirit that knows no division is possible, and perhaps suits the context here better than unhesitating, but the latter rendering seems to be justified by Trallians i,1. A somewhat different shade of meaning is found in Ignatius, Ephesians iii, 2.) spirit, for this is Jesus Christ.

Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the[*](Greetings) Holy Church which is at Tralles in Asia, beloved of God the Father of Jesus Christ, elect and worthy of God, having peace in the flesh and in the Spirit through the passion of Jesus Christ, who is our hope through our resurrection unto him. Which Church I also greet in the Divine fulness after the apostolic fashion, and I bid her abundant greeting.