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BOOK 6  (from: _Apostolic Fathers,_ Charles H. Hoole, 1885 translation)

                         Ignatius to the Magnesians

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CHAPTER 0
 0:1  |Ignatius, who is also Theophorus, to her that is
blessed in the grace of God the Father, in Jesus
Christ our Saviour, in whom I salute the Church that
is in Magnesia by the Maeander, and pray in God the
Father and in Jesus Christ that they may rejoice
greatly.

CHAPTER 1
 1:1  |Having heard of the abundant good order of your
love which is according to God, I have with gladness
chosen to address you in the faith of Jesus Christ;
 1:2  for having been deemed worthy of the most
Godlike name in the bonds I bear about, I celebrate
the Churches, in which I pray that there may be the
union of the body and spirit of Jesus Christ, our
everlasting life, and of faith and love, to which
there is nothing preferable, but above all of Jesus
and the Father, in whom abiding and escaping all the
insults of the ruler of this world, we shall attain
unto God.

CHAPTER 2
 2:1  |Since, therefore, I have been deemed worthy to
behold you through Damas, your bishop, who is worthy of
God, and your worthy presbyters Bassus and Apollonius,
and my fellow-servant the Deacon Sotion, of whom may I
have joy, because he is subject to the bishop as to
the grace of God, and to the presbytery as to the law
of Jesus Christ.

CHAPTER 3
 3:1  |And you it beseemeth not to despise the youth of
your bishop, but to award all reverence unto him,
respecting the power of God the Father which is in
him, even as I have known the sacred presbyters to do,
not having regard to his apparently youthful position,
but as wise men in God yielding unto him: yet not unto
him but unto the Father of Jesus Christ, who is bishop
of all.
 3:2  It is therefore right that we should obey
without any hypocrisy, to the honour of him who hath
willed that we should do so; since not only doth a man
deceive the visible bishop, but he also sets at nought
the invisible one. But he who doeth such things has to
give an account not unto the flesh, but unto God, who
knoweth the secret things.

CHAPTER 4
 4:1  |It is therefore fitting not only to be called
Christians, but also to be so, and not to be as some
who acknowledge the bishop, but do all things apart
from him; but such appear to me not to be of good
conscience, since they do not steadfastly assemble
themselves together according to the commandment.

CHAPTER 5
 5:1  |Since, therefore, things have an end, the choice
of two things, death and life, is placed at once
before us, and each is about to depart to his own
place.
 5:2  For as there are two kinds of coins, the one of
God, the other of the world, and each hath its own
impression, the unbelieving the impress of the world,
the believers in love the impress of God the Father
through Jesus Christ, through whom unless we attain
voluntarily to die unto his passion, his life is not
in us.

CHAPTER 6
 6:1  |Since, then, I have in the persons of those
above mentioned beheld as it were your whole multitude
in faith and have loved you, I exhort you to be
careful to do all things in the unity of God, since
the bishop sits in the place of God, and the
presbyters in the place of the synod of the Apostles,
and the deacons, who are most dear to me, have been
entrusted with the ministry of Jesus Christ, who was
with the Father before the world began, and was
manifested in the end.
 6:2  Do ye all then, having put on the same divine
disposition, have respect one to another, and let no
one behold his neighbour according to the flesh, but
love each other continuously in Jesus Christ. Let
there be nothing in you that shall be able to divide
you, but be ye united to the bishop and to those who
preside, after the form and doctrine of incorruption.

CHAPTER 7
 7:1  |As, therefore, the Lord did nothing apart from
the Father, being united to him, neither by himself
nor by the Apostles, so neither do ye anything without
the bishop and the elders; neither try that anything
should appear reasonable to yourselves separately; but
let there be in unison one prayer, one supplication,
one mind, one hope, in love, and in blameless joy.
There is one Jesus Christ, than which there is nothing
better.
 7:2  Do ye therefore all come together as unto the
temple of God, as unto one altar, as unto one Jesus
Christ, who came forth from one Father, and lived in
one, and departed unto one.

CHAPTER 8
 8:1  |Be not deceived by heretical opinions, nor by
ancient fables, which are unprofitable. For if we live
until this present, according to the religion of the
Jews, we acknowledge that we have not received grace.
 8:2  For the divine prophets lived according to
Christ Jesus. On this account were they also
persecuted, who by his grace were inspired, to the end
that the disobedient might be fully persuaded that
there is one God who manifested himself through Jesus
Christ, his Son, who is his eternal Word, who came not
forth from Silence, who in all things was well
pleasing to him that sent him.

CHAPTER 9
 9:1  |If, therefore, they who were under the older
dispensation came into a new hope, no longer keeping
the Sabbath, but living in observance of the Lord's
day, on which day also our life rose through him and
through his death, which certain deny, through which
mystery we have received faith (and through this
abide, that we may be found disciples of Jesus Christ,
our only teacher),
 9:2  how shall we be able to live apart from him, of
whom even the prophets were disciples, and waited for
him in the spirit as their teacher? And on this
account, he whom they rightly expected, when he came,
raised them from the dead.

CHAPTER 10
 10:1  |Let us, therefore, not be insensible to his
goodness. For if God should imitate our actions, we
are undone. On this account, becoming his disciples,
let us learn to live according to the religion of
Christ. For he who is called by any other name than
this is not of God.
 10:2  Lay aside, therefore, the evil leaven, which
hath waxed old and become sour, and be ye changed into
a new leaven, which is Jesus Christ. Be ye salted in
him, to the end that none of you become corrupt, since
by your savour shall ye be tried.
 10:3  It is inconsistent to name the name of Christ
Jesus, and to live after the manner of the Jews. For
Christianity did not believe upon Judaism, but Judaism
upon Christianity, so that every tongue which believed
might be gathered together unto God.

CHAPTER 11
 11:1  |Concerning those things, my beloved, I wish you
to be warned beforehand (not because I knew that any
of you were so disposed, but as being less than you),
so that you fall not into the snares of vainglory, but
may be fully persuaded of the birth, the passion, and
the resurrection which happened in the time of the
governorship of Pontius Pilate, which things were
truly and surely done by Jesus Christ, our hope, from
which hope may it happen to none of you to be turned
away.

CHAPTER 12
 12:1  |May I have joy of you in all things, if at
least I am worthy. For even though I be in bonds, yet
I am not to be compared to one of you who are free. I
know that ye are not puffed up, for ye have Jesus
Christ in yourselves; and still more when I praise
you, I know that ye are put to shame, as it is
written, The just is his own accuser.

CHAPTER 13
 13:1  |Be diligent, therefore, to be confirmed in the
doctrine of the Lord and of his Apostles, that ye may
be prosperous in all things, whatsoever ye do, both in
flesh and spirit, in faith and love, in the Son and the
Father and the Spirit, in the beginning and the end,
together with your most worthily-distinguished bishop,
and the nobly woven spiritual crown of your
presbytery, and of your deacons, who walk according to
God.
 13:2  Submit yourselves to your bishop and to each
other, as Jesus Christ to his Father according to the
flesh, and the Apostles to Christ, and to the Father,
and to the Spirit; that there may be a union both
fleshly and spiritual.

CHAPTER 14
 14:1  |Knowing that ye are full of God, I have
exhorted you briefly. Remember me in your prayers that
I may attain unto God; and the Church in Syria, whence
I am not worthy to be called. For I need your united
faith and love in God, that the Church in Syria may be
deemed worthy to be refreshed by your Church.

CHAPTER 15
 15:1  |The Ephesians from Smyrna, from which place
also I write unto you, salute you; they have in all
things refreshed me, being present for the glory of
God, as also are ye, who have in all things refreshed
me, together with Polycarp the bishop of the
Smyrnaeans. And the rest of the Churches in the honour
of Jesus Christ salute you. Be strong in the unity of
God, possessing his inseparable Spirit, which is Jesus
Christ.