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The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians

Chapter 16

2 sections

Ignatius of Antioch

Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes

Do not err, my brethren; they who corrupt families shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

If then those who do this according to the flesh suffer death, how much more if a man corrupt by false teaching the faith of God for the sake of which Jesus Christ was crucified ? Such a one shall go in his foulness to the unquenchable fire, as also shall he who listens to him.

Trans. Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers, Volume I (Loeb Classical Library), 1912. Public domain.

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