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The Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans

Chapter 3

3 sections

Ignatius of Antioch

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

For I know and believe that he was in the flesh even after the Resurrection.

And when he came to those with Peter he said to them: “Take, handle me and see that I am not a phantom without a body.” And they immediately touched him and believed, being mingled both with his flesh and spirit. Therefore they despised even death, and were proved to be above death.

And after his Resurrection he ate and drank with them as a being of flesh, although he was united in spirit to the Father.

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

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