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.

For as many as belong to God and Jesus Christ,—these are with the bishop. And as many as repent and come to the unity of the Church,—these also shall be of God, to be living according to

Jesus Christ.

Be not deceived, my brethren, if any one follow a maker of schism, he does not inherit the kingdom of God; if any man walk in strange doctrine he has no part in the Passion.

Be careful therefore to use one Eucharist (for[*](The one Eucharist) there is one flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one cup for union with his blood, one altar, as there is one bishop with the presbytery and the deacons my fellow servants), in order that whatever you do you may do it according unto God.