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Catecharium

The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians

Chapter 8

2 sections

Ignatius of Antioch

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

Let none therefore deceive you, and indeed you have not been deceived, but belong wholly to God. For since no strife is fixed among you which might torture you, you do indeed live according to God. I am dedicated and devoted to you Ephesians, and your Church, which is famous to eternity.

They who are carnal cannot do spiritual things, neither ean they who are spiritual do carnal things, just as faith is incapable of the deeds of infidelity, and infidelity of the deeds of faith. But even what you do according to the flesh is spiritual, for you do all things in Jesus Christ.

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

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