Epistles

Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus,[*](i.e. The God-bearer. In the 3rd century Acts of Ignatius the Emperor asks And who is Theophorus? and Ignatius replied He who has Christ in his heart.) to[*](Greeting) the Church, worthy of all felicitation, which is at Ephesus in Asia,—blessed with greatness by the fulness of God the Father, predestined from eternity for abiding and unchangeable glory, united and chosen through true suffering by the will of the Father and Jesus Christ our God,—abundant greeting in Jesus Christ and in blameless joy.