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Ignatius of Antioch

Epistle to the Trallians

Salutation

Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the holy church which is at Tralles, in Asia, beloved of God, the Father of Jesus Christ, elect, and worthy of God, possessing peace through the flesh, and blood, and passion of Jesus Christ, who is our hope, through our rising again to Him,1 which also I salute in its fulness,2 and in the apostolical character,3 and wish abundance of happiness.

Notes

  1. Some render, “in the resurrection which is by Him.”↩
  2. Either, “the whole members of the church,” or, “in the fulness of blessing.”↩
  3. Either, “as an apostle,” or, “in the apostolic form.”↩

Translation by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie: The Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. 1: The Apostolic Fathers (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870).
Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #77576, proofread by Distributed Proofreaders from Internet Archive scans. Public domain.