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Catecharium

The Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians

Chapter 5

2 sections

Ignatius of Antioch

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

Seeing then that there is an end to all, that the choice is between two things, death and life, and that each is to go to his own place;

for, just as there are two coinages, the one of God, the other of the world, and each has its own stamp impressed on it, so the unbelievers bear the stamp of this world, and the believers the stamp of God the Father in love through Jesus Christ, and unless we willingly choose to die through him in his passion, his life is not in us,

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

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