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Catecharium

The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians

Chapter 11

2 sections

Ignatius of Antioch

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

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.

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.

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

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