About the text
About this work
This work is the Letter of St. Ignatius of Antioch to the Ephesians, one of the seven letters represented in the Middle Recension.
Historical context
The text is presented according to the seven-letter Middle Recension, using the Greek text represented by Kirsopp Lake’s 1912 edition and a corrected Open Apostolic Fathers digital transcription.
Contents
The letter commends the Ephesian church, urges unity with its bishop and presbyters, warns against false teaching, and reflects on the incarnation, Christian worship, and life in Christ.
Text & source details
- Edition
- Original Greek
- Publication
- Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1 (1912); corrected Open Apostolic Fathers digital transcription.
- Rights
- Open Apostolic Fathers digital transcription: CC BY-SA 4.0. Lake 1912 printed edition is public domain in the United States.
- Edition
- Voices of the Fathers Modern English
- Translator
- Voices of the Fathers
- Edition
- Kirsopp Lake (1912)
- Translator
- Kirsopp Lake
- Publication
- The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1912).
- Rights
- Public domain in the United States; jurisdiction-specific review may be required elsewhere.