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The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans
Salutation
Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church which has obtained mercy, through the
majesty of the Most High Father, and Jesus Christ, His onlybegotten Son; the Church which is
beloved and enlightened by the will of Him that willeth all things which are according to the love
of Jesus Christ our God, which also presides in the place of the region of the Romans, worthy of
God, worthy of honour, worthy of the highest happiness, worthy of praise, worthy of obtaining
her every desire, worthy of being deemed holy, and which presides over love, is named from
Christ, and from the Father, which I also salute in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the
Father: to those who are united, both according to the flesh and spirit, to every one of His
commandments; who are filled inseparably with the grace of God, and are purified from every
strange taint, [I wish] abundance of happiness unblameably, in Jesus Christ our God.
Chapter I.—As a prisoner, I hope to see you.
Through prayer to God I have obtained the privilege of seeing your most worthy faces, and have
even been granted more than I requested; for I hope as a prisoner in Christ Jesus to salute you,
if indeed it be the will of God that I be thought worthy of attaining unto the end. For the
beginning has been well ordered, if I may obtain grace to cling to my lot without hindrance unto
the end. For I am afraid of your love, lest it should do me an injury. For it is easy for you to
accomplish what you please; but it is difficult for me to attain to God, if ye spare me.
Chapter II.—Do not save me from martyrdom.
For it is not my desire to act towards you as a manpleaser, but as pleasing God, even as also
ye please Him. For neither shall I ever have such [another] opportunity of attaining to God; nor
will ye, if ye shall now be silent, ever be entitled to the honour of a better work. For if ye are
silent concerning me, I shall become God’s; but if you show your love to my flesh, I shall again
have to run my race. Pray, then, do not seek to confer any greater favour upon me than that I be
sacrificed to God while the altar is still prepared; that, being gathered together in love, ye may
sing praise to the Father, through Christ Jesus, that God has deemed me, the bishop of Syria,
worthy to be sent for from the east unto the west. It is good to set from the world unto God, that I
may rise
again to Him.
Chapter III.—Pray rather that I may attain to martyrdom.
Ye have never envied any one; ye have taught others. Now I desire that those things may be
confirmed [by your conduct], which in your instructions ye enjoin [on others]. Only request in my
behalf both inward and outward strength, that I may not only speak, but [truly] will; and that I
may not merely be called a Christian, but really be found to be one. For if I be truly found [a
Christian], I may also be called one, and be then deemed faithful, when I shall no longer appear
to the world. Nothing visible is eternal. “For the things which are seen are temporal, but the
things which are not seen are eternal.” For our God, Jesus Christ, now that He is with the
Father, is all the more revealed [in His glory]. Christianity is not a thing of silence only, but also
of [manifest] greatness.
Chapter IV.—Allow me to fall a prey to the wild beasts.
I write to the Churches, and impress on them all, that I shall willingly die for God, unless ye
hinder me. I beseech of you not to show an unseasonable goodwill towards me. Suffer me to
become food for the wild beasts, through whose instrumentality it will be granted me to attain to
God. I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be
found the pure bread of Christ. Rather entice the wild beasts, that they may become my tomb,
and may leave nothing of my body; so that when I have fallen asleep [in death], I may be no
trouble to any one. Then shall I truly be a disciple of Christ, when the world shall not see so
much as my body. Entreat Christ for me, that by these instruments I may be found a sacrifice [to
God]. I do not, as Peter and Paul, issue commandments unto you. They were apostles; I am but
a condemned man: they were free, while I am, even until now, a servant. But when I suffer, I
shall be the freedman of Jesus, and shall rise again
Chapter V.—I desire to die.
From Syria even unto Rome I fight with beasts, both by land and sea, both by night and day,
being bound to ten leopards, I mean a band of soldiers, who, even when they receive benefits,
show themselves all the worse. But I am the more instructed by their injuries [to act as a disciple
of Christ]; “yet am I not thereby justified.” May I enjoy the wild beasts that are prepared for me;
and I pray they may be found eager to rush upon me, which also I will entice to devour me
speedily, and not deal with me as with some, whom, out of fear, they have not touched. But if
they be unwilling to assail me, I will compel them to do so. Pardon me [in this]: I know what is for
my benefit. Now I begin to be a disciple. And let no one, of things visible or invisible, envy me
that I should attain to Jesus Christ. Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let
tearings, breakings, and dislocations of bones; let cutting off of members; let shatterings of the
whole body; and let all the dreadful torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to
Jesus Christ.
Chapter VI.—By death I shall attain true life.
All the pleasures of the world, and all the kingdoms of this earth, shall profit me nothing. It
is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth. “For
what shall a man be profited, if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul?” Him I seek, who
died for us: Him I desire, who rose again for our sake. This is the gain which is laid up for me.
Pardon me, brethren: do not hinder me from living, do not wish to keep me in a state of death;
and while I desire to belong to God, do not ye give me over to the world. Suffer me to obtain
pure light: when I have gone thither, I shall indeed be a man of God. Permit me to be an imitator
of the passion of my God. If any one has Him within himself, let him consider what I desire, and
let him have sympathy with me, as knowing how I am straitened.
Chapter VII.—Reason of desiring to die.
The prince of this world would fain carry me away, and corrupt my disposition towards God.
Let none of you, therefore, who are [in Rome] help him; rather be ye on my side, that is, on the
side of God. Do not speak of Jesus Christ, and yet set your desires on the world. Let not envy
find a dwellingplace among you; nor even should I, when present with you, exhort you to it, be
ye persuaded to listen to me, but rather give credit to those things which I now write to you. For
though I am alive while I write to you, yet I am eager to die. My love has been crucified, and
there is no fire in me desiring to be fed; but there is within me a water that liveth and speaketh,
saying to me inwardly, Come to the Father. I have no delight in corruptible food, nor in the
pleasures of this life. I desire the bread of God, the heavenly bread, the bread of life, which is
the flesh of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who became afterwards of the seed of David and
Abraham; and I desire the drink of God, namely His blood, which is incorruptible love and
eternal life.
Chapter VIII.—Be ye favourable to me.
I no longer wish to live after the manner of men, and my desire shall be fulfilled if ye consent.
Be ye willing, then, that ye also may have your desires fulfilled. I entreat you in this brief letter;
do ye give credit to me. Jesus Christ will reveal these things to you, [so that ye shall know] that I
speak truly. He is the mouth altogether free from falsehood, by which the Father has truly
spoken. Pray ye for me, that I may attain [the object of my desire]. I have not written to you
according to the flesh, but according to the will of God. If I shall suffer, ye have wished [well] to
me; but if I am rejected, ye have hated me.
Chapter IX.—Pray for the church in Syria.
Remember in your prayers the Church in Syria, which now has God for its shepherd, instead
of me. Jesus Christ alone will oversee it, and your love [will also regard it]. But as for me, I am
ashamed to be counted one of them; for indeed I am not worthy, as being the very last of them,
and one born out of due time. But I have obtained mercy to be somebody, if I shall attain to
God. My spirit salutes you, and the love of the Churches that have received me in the name of
Jesus Christ, and not as a mere passerby. For even those Churches which were not near to me
in the way, I mean according to the flesh, have gone before me, city by city, [to meet me.]
Chapter X.—Conclusion.
Now I write these things to you from Smyrna by the Ephesians, who are deservedly most happy.
There is also with me, along with many others, Crocus, one dearly beloved by me. As to those
who have gone before me from Syria to Rome for the glory of God, I believe that you are
acquainted with them; to whom, [then,] do ye make known that I am at hand. For they are all
worthy, both of God and of you; and it is becoming that you should refresh them in all things. I
have written these things unto you, on the day before the ninth of the Kalends of September
(that is, on the twentythird day of August). Fare ye well to the end, in the patience of Jesus
Christ. Amen.
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