Apostolic Father · d. c. AD 107–110 (traditional; exact date debated)
Ignatius of Antioch
Ignatius was the third bishop of Antioch and, according to tradition, a disciple of the Apostle John. On his way to martyrdom in Rome under the emperor Trajan, he wrote seven letters to various churches, including the Letter to the Smyrnaeans, which contains one of the earliest surviving Christian witnesses to belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
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Only the first paragraph of each chapter is imported, on the inference that CCEL orders the shorter (middle, traditionally authentic) recension before the longer (4th-century, traditionally spurious) one. This positional inference has not been independently checked against a critical Greek apparatus and should be treated as provisional pending scholarly review.
Ignatius to the EphesiansOnly the first paragraph of each chapter is imported, on the inference that CCEL orders the shorter (middle, traditionally authentic) recension before the longer (4th-century, traditionally spurious) one — consistent with the page's own title and with the two texts' relative length and content where both are present. This positional inference has not been independently checked against a critical Greek apparatus (e.g. Lightfoot's edition) and should be treated as provisional pending scholarly review, not as settled fact.
Ignatius to the MagnesiansOnly the first paragraph of each chapter is imported, on the inference that CCEL orders the shorter (middle, traditionally authentic) recension before the longer (4th-century, traditionally spurious) one. This positional inference has not been independently checked against a critical Greek apparatus and should be treated as provisional pending scholarly review.
Ignatius to the PhiladelphiansOnly the first paragraph of each chapter is imported, on the inference that CCEL orders the shorter (middle, traditionally authentic) recension before the longer (4th-century, traditionally spurious) one. This positional inference has not been independently checked against a critical Greek apparatus and should be treated as provisional pending scholarly review.
Ignatius to the RomansOnly the first paragraph of each chapter is imported, on the inference that CCEL orders the shorter (middle, traditionally authentic) recension before the longer (4th-century, traditionally spurious) one. This positional inference has not been independently checked against a critical Greek apparatus and should be treated as provisional pending scholarly review.
Ignatius to the SmyrnaeansOnly the first paragraph of each chapter is imported, on the inference that CCEL orders the shorter (middle, traditionally authentic) recension before the longer (4th-century, traditionally spurious) one. This positional inference has not been independently checked against a critical Greek apparatus and should be treated as provisional pending scholarly review.
Ignatius to the TralliansOnly the first paragraph of each chapter is imported, on the inference that CCEL orders the shorter (middle, traditionally authentic) recension before the longer (4th-century, traditionally spurious) one. This positional inference has not been independently checked against a critical Greek apparatus and should be treated as provisional pending scholarly review.