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.

Seeing then that there is an end to all, that the[*](The fate of unbelievers) choice is between two things, death and life, and that each is to go to his own place;

for, just as there are two coinages,[*](This is perhaps a reference to Mt. xxii. 19.) the one of God, the other of the world, and each has its own stamp impressed on it, so the unbelievers bear the stamp of this world, and the believers the stamp of God the Father in love through Jesus Christ, and unless we willingly choose to die through him in his passion, his life is not in us.