✝️The EPISTLE of IGNATIUS to the MAGNESIANS [Chapter 4]✝️

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✝️The EPISTLE of IGNATIUS to the MAGNESIANS [Chapter 4]✝️

Chapter IV.

Chapter IV.

1 Commends their faith and piety; exhorts them to persevere; 10 desires their prayers for himself and the church at Antioch.

1 MAY I therefore have joy of you in all things, if I shall be worthy of it. For though I am bound, yet I am not worthy to be compared to one of you that are at liberty.

2 I know that ye are not puffed up; for ye have Jesus Christ  [note: In yourselves.] in your hearts.

3 And especially when I commend you, I know that ye are ashamed, as it is written,  [note: Prov. xviii. 17 Sept.] The just man condemneth himself.

4 Study therefore to be confirmed in the doctrine of our Lord, and of his Apostles; that so whatever ye do, ye may prosper both in body and spirit, in faith and charity, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Holy Spirit: in the beginning, and in the end.

5 Together with your most worthy bishop, and the  [note: Worthily complicated.] well-wrought spiritual crown of your presbytery, and your deacons, which are according to God.

6 Be subject to your bishop, and to one another, as Jesus Christ to the Father, according to the flesh: and the Apostles both to Christ, and to the Father, and to the Holy Ghost: that so ye may  [note: There may be a union both fleshly and spiritual.] be united both in body and spirit.

7  [note: Eph. iii. 4.] Knowing you to be full of God, I have the more briefly exhorted you.

8 Be mindful of me in your prayers, that I may  [note: Find, enjoy.] attain unto God, and of the Church that is in Syria, from  [note: Whence.] which I am not worthy to be called.

9 For I stand in need of your joint prayers in God, and of your charity, that the church which is in Syria may be thought worthy to be  [note: Bedewed. Vid. Epist. Inter. in loc.] nourished by your church.

10 The Ephesians  [note: Which came to Smyrna upon my account.] from Smyrna salute you, from which place I write unto you: (being present here to the glory of God, in like manner as you are,) who have in all things refreshed me, together with Polycarp, the bishop of the Smyrnæans.

11 The rest of the churches in the honour of Jesus Christ, salute you.

12  [note: Ἔρρωσθε.] Farewell, and be ye strengthened in the concord of God:  [note: Possessing.] enjoying his inseparable spirit, which is Jesus Christ.

¶ To the Magnesians.

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