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The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians

Chapter 5

2 sections

Ignatius of Antioch

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

Am I not able to write to you heavenly things? Yes, but I am afraid that I should do you harm “seeing you are babes.’’ Pardon me, for I refrain lest you be choked by what you cannot receive.

For I myself, though I am in bonds and can understand heavenly things, and the places of the angels and the gatherings of principalities, and “things seen and unseen,’ not for this am 1 a disciple even now, for much is lacking to us, that we may not lack God.

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

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