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 entreat you to listen to me in love, that I become not by my writing a witness against you. And pray for me also, for· I have need of your love in the mercy of God, that I may be granted the lot which I am set to obtain, that I be not found reprobate.

The love of the Smyrnaeans and Ephesians greet[*](Final greetings) you: remember in your prayers the Church in Syria, in which I am not worthy to be reckoned, being the least of its members.