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Chapter VIII.—Caution against false
doctrines.
Be not
deceived with strange doctrines, nor with old fables, which are
unprofitable. For if we
still live according to the Jewish law, we acknowledge that we have not
received grace. For the divinest prophets lived according to Christ
Jesus. On this account also they were persecuted,
being inspired by His grace to fully convince the unbelieving that there
is one God, who has manifested Himself by Jesus Christ His Son, who is
His eternal Word, not proceeding forth from silence,676
676 Some have argued that the Gnostic
Σιγή, silence,
is here referred to, and have consequently inferred that this epistle
could not have been written by Ignatius. | and who in all
things pleased Him that sent Him.
Be not deceived with strange
doctrines, “nor give heed to fables and endless
genealogies,”677 and things in which the
Jews make their boast. “Old things are passed away: behold, all
things have become new.”678 For if we
still live according to the Jewish law, and the circumcision of the
flesh, we deny that we have received grace. For the divinest prophets
lived according to Jesus Christ. On this account also they were persecuted, being
inspired by grace to fully convince the unbelieving that there is one
God, the Almighty, who has manifested Himself by Jesus Christ His Son,
who is His Word, not spoken, but essential. For He is not the voice of an
articulate utterance, but a substance begotten by divine power, who has
in all things pleased Him that sent Him.679
679 Some read ὑποστήσαντι,
“that gave Him His hypostasis, or substance.”
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