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.

If Jesus Christ permit me through your prayers.[*](Promise of future doctrinal exposition) and it be his will, in the second book,[*](This second book was either never written, or at all events is not extant in the genuine recension: but a later editor has supplied a second epistle to the Ephesians which is undoubtedly not genuine.) which I propose to write to you, I will show you concerning the dispensation of the new man Jesus Christ, which I have begun to discuss, dealing with his faith and his love, his suffering and his resurrection;