The Antient Syriac Version of the Epistles of St. Ignatius to St. Polycarp, the Ephesians, and the Romans: Together with Extracts from His Epistles, Collected from the Writings of Severus of Antioch, Timotheus of Alexandria, and Others : Edited with an English Translation and Notes : Also the Greek Text of These Three Epistles, Corrected According to the Authority of the Syriac Version |
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Page 31 - For the divine prophets lived according to Jesus Christ. Therefore they were also persecuted, being inspired by his grace, to convince the disobedient that there is one God, who manifested himself through Jesus Christ his son, who is his Word proceeding from silence, who in all respects was well-pleasing to him that sent him.
Page 21 - Leave me to be the beasts', that through them I may be accounted worthy of God. I am the wheat of God, and by the teeth of the beasts I am ground, that I may be found the pure bread of God. With provoking provoke ye the beasts, that they may be a grave for me, and may leave nothing of my body, that even after I am fallen asleep I may not be a burden upon any one.
Page 31 - Church' is not given." (Traliians, II 2.3; III 1, p. 215.) 3. "Be zealous to do all things in harmony with God, with the bishop presiding in the place of God and the presbyters in the place of the Council of the Apostles, and the deacons, who are most dear to me, entrusted with the service of Jesus Christ.
Page 13 - Father, and are raised up on high by the engine of Jesus Christ, which is the Cross, and ye are drawn by the rope, which is the Holy Ghost; and your pulley is your faith, and your love is the way that leadeth up on high to God.
Page 13 - For those things which ye have done in the flesh even they are spiritual, because ye have done every thing in Jesus Christ...
Page 35 - For indeed how great are those advantages which we owe to him in relation to our holiness?
Page 15 - There was concealed from the ruler of this world the virginity of Mary, and the birth of our Lord, and the three mysteries of the shout, which were done in the quietness of God from the star.
Page 13 - Lord, and that all of you be like him ; for blessed is He who hath given you such a Bishop, as ye deserve ; but forasmuch as love suffereth me not to be silent respecting you, on this account I have been forward to entreat you to be diligent in the will of God...
Page 35 - Of Clement, the third Bishop of Rome after the Apostles, from the second Epistle to the Corinthians. My brethren, thus is it right for us to think concerning Jesus Christ, as concerning God, as concerning the Judge of the living and the dead, and it is not right for us to think small things concerning our salvation : for if we think small things concerning it, we hope also to receive small things.
Page 21 - ... not approach them ; even should they not be willing to approach me, I will go with violence against them. Know me from myself. What is expedient for me...