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BOOK 7 (from: _Apostolic Fathers,_ Kirsopp Lake, 1912 (Loeb Classical Library))
IGNATIUS to the Trallians
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CHAPTER 0
0:0 Greetings
0:1 |Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the
Holy Church which is at Tralles in Asia, beloved of God
the Father of Jesus Christ, elect and worthy of God,
having peace in the flesh and in the Spirit through the
passion of Jesus Christ, who is our hope through our
resurrection unto him. Which Church I also greet in the
Divine fulness after the apostolic fashion, and I bid
her abundant greeting.
CHAPTER 1
1:0 The virtue of the Trallians
1:1 |I have learned that you possess a mind free from
blame and unhesitating in endurance, not from habit,
but by nature, as Polybius your bishop showed me, when
he visited me in Smyrna by the will of God and of Jesus
Christ, and so greatly rejoiced with me, prisoner for
Jesus Christ as I was, that I saw your whole
congregation in his person.
1:2 I received therefore your godly benevolence
through him, and gave God glory that I found you, as I
had learnt, imitators of God.
CHAPTER 2
2:0 Submission to the Bishop, presbyters and deacons
2:1 |For when you are in subjection to the bishop as
to Jesus Christ it is clear to me that you are living
not after men, but after Jesus Christ, who died for our
sake, that by believing on his death you may escape
death.
2:2 Therefore it is necessary (as is your practice)
that you should do nothing without the bishop, but be
also in subjection to the presbytery, as to the
Apostles of Jesus Christ, our hope, for if we live in
him we shall be found in him.
2:3 And they also who are deacons of the mysteries of
Jesus Christ must be in every way pleasing to all men.
For they are not the ministers of food and drink, but
servants of the Church of God; they must therefore
guard against blame as against fire.
CHAPTER 3
3:0 The reverence due to them
3:1 |Likewise let all respect the deacons as Jesus
Christ, even as the bishop is also a type of the
Father, and the presbyters as the council of God and
the college of Apostles. Without these the name of
"Church" is not given.
3:2 I am confident that you accept this. For I have
received the example of your love, and I have it with
me in the person of your bishop, whose very demeanour
is a great lesson, and whose meekness is a miracle, ^1
and I believe that even the godless pay respect to him.
3:3 I am sparing you in my love, though I might write
more sharply on his behalf: I did not think myself
competent, as a convict, to give you orders like an
Apostle.
== small type on ==
^1 Or, possibly, "is his power."
== small type off ==
CHAPTER 4
4:0 Ignatius's need of humility
4:1 |I have many thoughts in God, but I take the
measure of myself that I perish not through boasting,
for at present it is far better for me to be timid, and
not to give heed to them who puff me up. For they who
speak thus are a scourge to me.
4:2 For I desire to suffer, but I know not if I am
worthy, for the jealousy of the devil ^1 is to many not
obvious, but against me it fights the more. I have need
therefore of meekness, by which the prince of this
world is brought to nothing.
== small type on ==
^1 This is probably the meaning: an alternative translation would
be: "Ambition is not obvious, etc." But compare _Ignatius to the
Romans_ 5:3.
== small type off ==
CHAPTER 5
5:0 Reason for simple teaching
5:1 |Am I not able to write to you heavenly things?
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.
5:2 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.
CHAPTER 6
6:0 Warning against heresy
6:1 |I beseech you therefore (yet not I but the love
of Jesus Christ) live only on Christian fare, and
refrain from strange food, which is heresy.
6:2 For these men mingle Jesus Christ with themselves
in specious honesty, mixing as it were a deadly poison
with honeyed wine, which the ignorant takes gladly in
his baneful pleasure, and it is his death.
CHAPTER 7
7:0 The need of remaining loyal to the bishop
7:1 |Beware therefore of such men; and this will be
possible for you, if you are not puffed up, and are
inseparable from God, from Jesus Christ ^1 and from the
bishop and the ordinances of the Apostles.
7:2 He who is within the sanctuary is pure, but he
who is without the sanctuary is not pure; that is to
say whoever does anything apart from the bishop and the
presbytery and the deacons is not pure in his
conscience.
== small type on ==
^1 Or possibly "from our God Jesus Christ."
== small type off ==
CHAPTER 8
8:0 Warning against the snares of the devil
8:1 |It is not that I know that there is anything of
this kind among you, but I warn you because you are
dear to me, and I foresee the snares of the devil.
Therefore adopt meekness and be renewed in faith, which
is the flesh of the Lord, and in love, which is the
blood of Jesus Christ.
8:2 Let none of you have a grudge against his
neighbour. Give no occasion to the heathen, in order
that the congregation of God may not be blasphemed for
a few foolish persons. For "Woe unto him through whom
my name is vainly blasphemed among any."
CHAPTER 9
9:0 The history of Jesus Christ
9:1 |Be deaf therefore when anyone speaks to you
apart from Jesus Christ, who was of the family of
David, and of Mary, who was truly born, both ate and
drank, was truly persecuted under Pontius Pilate, was
truly crucified and died in the sight of those in
heaven and on earth and under the earth;
9:2 who also was truly raised from the dead, when his
Father raised him up, as in the same manner his Father
shall raise up in Christ Jesus us who believe in him,
without whom we have no true life.
CHAPTER 10
10:0 Against Docetism
10:1 |But if, as some affirm who are without God,
-- that is, are unbelievers -- his suffering was only a
semblance (but it is they who are merely a semblance),
why am I a prisoner, and why do I even long to fight
with the beasts? In that case I am dying in vain. Then
indeed am I lying concerning the Lord.
CHAPTER 11
11:0 Against heresy
11:1 |Fly from these wicked offshoots, which bear
deadly fruit, which if a man eat he presently dies. For
these are not the planting of the Father.
11:2 For if they were they would appear as branches
of the Cross (and their fruit would be incorruptible)
by which through his Passion he calls you who are his
members. The head therefore cannot be borne without
limbs, since God promises union, that is himself.
CHAPTER 12
12:0 Exhortation to unity and love
12:1 |I greet you from Smyrna together with the
Churches of God that are present with me, men who in
all things have given me rest in the flesh and in the
spirit.
12:2 My bonds exhort you, which I carry about for the
sake of Jesus Christ, praying that I may attain to God;
continue in your present harmony and in prayer with one
another. For it is right that each of you, and
especially the presbyters, should refresh the bishop,
to the honour of the Father, of Jesus Christ, and of
the Apostles.
12:3 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.
CHAPTER 13
13:0 Final greetings
13:1 |The love of the Smyrnaeans and Ephesians greet
you: remember in your prayers the Church in Syria, in
which I am not worthy to be reckoned, being the least
of its members.
13:2 Farewell in Jesus Christ. Submit yourselves to
the bishop as to the commandment, and likewise to the
presbytery. Let each of you individually love one
another with an undivided heart.
13:3 My spirit is consecrated to you not only now,
but also when I attain to God. For I am still in peril,
but the Father is faithful in Jesus Christ to fulfil
both your and my prayer, in which may you be found
blameless.