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Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Ephesians: Shorter and Longer Versions
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The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians Shorter and Longer Versions
Chapter I.—Praise of the Ephesians.
Chapter II.—Congratulations and entreaties.
Chapter III.—Exhortations to unity.
Chapter IV.—The same continued.
Chapter V.—The praise of unity.
Chapter VI.—Have respect to the bishop as to Christ Himself.
Chapter VII.—Beware of false teachers.
Chapter VIII.—Renewed praise of the Ephesians.
Chapter IX.—Ye have given no heed to false teachers.
Chapter X.—Exhortations to prayer, humility, etc.
Chapter XI.—An exhortation to fear God, etc.
Chapter XII.—Praise of the Ephesians.
Chapter XIII.—Exhortation to meet together frequently for the worship of God.
Chapter XIV.—Exhortations to faith and love.
Chapter XV.—Exhortation to confess Christ by silence as well as speech.
Chapter XVI.—The fate of false teachers.
Chapter XVII.—Beware of false doctrines.
Chapter XVIII.—The glory of the cross.
Chapter XIX.—Three celebrated mysteries.
Chapter XX.—Promise of another letter.
Stand fast, brethren, in the faith of Jesus Christ, and in His love, in His passion, and in His resurrection. Do ye all come together in common, and individually,141 Literally, “by name.” through grace, in one faith of God the Father, and of Jesus Christ His only-begotten Son, and “the first-born of every creature,”142 Col. i. 15. but of the seed of David according to the flesh, being under the guidance of the Comforter, in obedience to the bishop and the presbytery with an undivided mind, breaking one and the same bread, which is the medicine of immortality, and the antidote which prevents us from dying, but a cleansing remedy driving away evil, [which causes] that we should live in God through Jesus Christ.
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