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Ignatius of Antioch

Epistle to the Trallians

Chapter 7

The same continued.

Be on your guard, therefore, against such persons. And this will be the case with you if you are not puffed up, and continue in intimate union with1 Jesus Christ our God, and the bishop, and the enactments of the apostles. He that is within the altar is pure, but2 he that is without is not pure; that is, he who does anything apart from the bishop, and presbytery, and deacons,3 such a man is not pure in his conscience.

Notes

  1. Literally, “unseparated from.”↩
  2. This clause is inserted from the ancient Latin version.↩
  3. The text has “deacon.”↩

Translation by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie: The Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. 1: The Apostolic Fathers (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870).
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