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Chapter VIII. I Salute Him Who Is Reckoned Worthy to Go to Antioch in My Stead, as I Commanded Thee · The Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians · Chapter VII

Exhortation to Consistency of Conduct

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Ye have been the disciples of Paul and Peter; do not lose what was committed to your trust. Keep in remembrance Euodias,1243 your deservedly-blessed pastor, into whose hands the government over you was first entrusted by the apostles. Let us not bring disgrace upon our Father. Let us prove ourselves His true-born children, and not bastards. Ye know after what manner I have acted among you. The things which, when present, I spoke to you, these same, when absent, I now write to you. "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema."1244 Be ye followers of me.1245 My soul be for yours, when I attain to Jesus. Remember my bonds.1246

Notes

  1. 1243

    Some think that this is the same person as the Euodias referred to by St. Paul, ; but, as appears from the Greek (ver. 3, haitines), the two persons there mentioned were women.

  2. 1244

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  3. 1245

    Comp. .

  4. 1246

    Comp. .

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.