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 became acquainted through God with your[*](The fame of the Ephesians) much beloved name, which you have obtained by your righteous nature, according to faith and love in Christ Jesus our Saviour, You are imitators of God, and, having kindled your brotherly [*](Or natural, congenial, as Lightfoot suggests: the translation given is that of Zahn.) task by the blood of God, you completed it perfectly.