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Chapter I.
Inasmuch
as your name, which is greatly beloved, is acceptable to me in God, [your
name] which ye have acquired by nature, through a right and just will,
and also by the faith and love of Jesus Christ our Saviour, and ye are
imitators of God, and are fervent in the blood of God, and have speedily
completed a work congenial to you; [for] when ye heard that I was
bound,1148
| 1148 Literally,
“bound for actions.” | so as to be able to do
nothing for the sake of the common name and hope (and I hope, through
your prayers, that I may be devoured by beasts at Rome, so that by means
of this of which I have been accounted worthy, I may be endowed with
strength to be a disciple of God), ye were diligent to come and see me.
Seeing, then, that we have become acquainted with your multitude1149
| 1149 Cureton renders, “have
received your abundance,” probably referring the words to gifts
sent by the Ephesians to Ignatius. | in the name of God, by
Onesimus, who is your bishop, in love which is unutterable, whom I pray
that ye love in Jesus Christ our Lord, and that all of you imitate his
example,1150
| 1150 Literally,
“be in his image.” | for blessed is He who has
given you such a bishop, even as ye deserve [to have].1151
| 1151 There is no Apodosis, unless it be found
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