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.

Pray for me that I may attain. I write to you not according to the flesh, but according to the mind of God. If I suffer, it was your favour: if I be rejected, it was your hatred.

Remember in your prayers the Church in Syria[*](The Church in Syria) which has God for its Shepherd in my room. Its bishop shall be Jesus Christ alone,—and your love.

But for myself I am ashamed to be called one of them, for I am not worthy; for I am the least of them, and born out of time; but I have obtained mercy to be someone, if I may attain to God.