The Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians Shorter and Longer Versions · Chapter II
I Rejoice in Your Messengers
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Since, then, I have had the privilege of seeing you, through Damas your most worthy bishop, and through your worthy presbyters Bassus and Apollonius, and through my fellow-servant the deacon Sotio, whose friendship may I ever enjoy, inasmuch as he is subject to the bishop as to the grace of God, and to the presbytery as to the law of Jesus Christ, [I now write638 to you].
Since, then, I have had the privilege of seeing you, through Damas your most worthy639 bishop, and through your worthy640 presbyters Bassus and Apollonius, and through my fellow-servant the deacon Sotio, whose friendship may I ever enjoy,641 inasmuch as he, by the grace of God, is subject to the bishop and presbytery, in the law of Jesus Christ, [I now write642 to you].
Notes
- 638
The apodosis is here wanting in the original, but must evidently be supplied in some such way as above.
- 639
Literally, "worthy of God."
- 640
Literally, "worthy of God."
- 641
Literally, "whom may I enjoy."
- 642
The apodosis is here wanting in the original, but must evidently be supplied in some such way as above.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.