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.

Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to Polycarp,[*](Greeting) who is bishop of the Church of the Smyrnaeans, or rather has for his bishop God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, abundant greeting.

Welcoming your godly mind which is fixed as[*](Salutation and exhortation to diligence) if on immovable rock, I glory exceedingly that it was granted me to see your blameless face wherein I would fain have pleasure in God.