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.

May my spirit be for your life, and my bonds, which you treated neither with haughtiness nor shame. And he who is perfect hope, Jesus Christ, shall not be ashamed of you.

Your prayer reached the Church which is in[*](The Church in Syria) Antioch in Syria, and I greet all men as one who comes thence in bonds which are most seemly in God’s sight, though I am not worthy to be from thence, for I am the least of them; but by the will of God I have been thought worthy, not that I am conscious of deserts,[*](Or, possibly, by my own complicity.) but by the grace of God, and

I pray that this may be given to me to the end, and that by your prayers I may attain to God.