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.

Am I not able to write to you heavenly things?[*](Reason for simple teaching) Yes, but I am afraid that I should do you harm seeing you are babes. Pardon me, for I refrain lest you be choked by what you cannot receive.

For I myself, though I am in bonds and can understand heavenly things, and the places of the angels and the gatherings of principalities, and things seen and unseen, not for this am I a disciple even now, for much is lacking to us, that we may not lack God.