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.

I received therefore your godly benevolence through him, and gave God glory that I found you, as I had learnt, imitators of God.

For when you are in subjection to the bishop as[*](Submission to the bishop, presbyters and deacons) to Jesus Christ it is clear to me that you are living not after men, but after Jesus Christ, who died for

our sake, that by believing on his death you may escape death.