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The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans

Chapter 9

Lake 1912 · 3 sections

Ignatius of Antioch

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

Public domain.

Remember in your prayers the Church in Syria which has God for its Shepherd in my room. Its bishop shall be Jesus Christ alone,—and your love.

But for myself I am ashamed to be called one of them, for I am not worthy; for I am the least of them, and “born out of time;” but I have obtained mercy to be someone, if I may attain to God.

My spirit greets you, and the love of the Churches which have received me in the Name of Jesus Christ, not as a mere passer by, for even those which did not lie on my road according to the flesh went before me from city to city.

Trans. Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers, Volume I (Loeb Classical Library), 1912. Public domain; transcribed from a dated scan.

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