Ignatius of Antioch: source notes

Works: Letters (c. 107–110), middle recension. Edition/translation: ANF vol. 1 (Roberts–Donaldson), as on New Advent. Greek: Lightfoot/Holmes, Apostolic Fathers (key words to verify against a printed Greek text).

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S1: Philadelphians 8.2

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0108.htm
Text: “But to me Jesus Christ is in the place of all that is ancient: His cross, and death, and resurrection, and the faith which is by Him, are undefiled monuments of antiquity; by which I desire, through your prayers, to be justified.”
Context: Against people who would believe only what they found in the “archives” (OT). Justification is tied to Christ’s cross and resurrection and to faith. Ignatius gives no exposition of the term.
Bears on: Q1, Q2
Status: verified (English)

S2: Magnesians 10.3

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0105.htm
Text: “It is absurd to profess Christ Jesus, and to Judaize. For Christianity did not embrace Judaism, but Judaism Christianity.”
Context: This is the anti-Judaizing context for Ignatius’s faith language. It is relevant to the ἔργα νόμου question.
Bears on: Q2
Status: verified (English)

Topic: eucharist

See eucharist reasoning.

EUC S1: Smyrnaeans 7.1

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0109.htm
Text: “They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again.”
Context: Written against Docetists, who denied that Christ had real flesh. The Eucharist is identified with the flesh that suffered.
Bears on: E1
Status: verified (English)

Topic: afterlife

See afterlife reasoning.

AFT S1: Ephesians 16.2

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0104.htm
Text: “Such an one becoming defiled [in this way], shall go away into everlasting fire, and so shall every one that hearkens unto him.”
Context: About corrupters of the faith.
Bears on: L5
Status: verified (English)

Topic: trinity

See trinity reasoning.

TRI S1: Ephesians 7.2

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0104.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
Text: “There is one Physician who is possessed both of flesh and spirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; both of Mary and of God; first passible and then impassible — even Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Context: Christ as God in flesh, against docetists.
Bears on: T1
Status: verified (English)

Topic: christology

See christology reasoning.

CHR S1: Ephesians 7.2

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0104.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “There is one Physician who is possessed both of flesh and spirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; both of Mary and of God; first passible and then impassible — even Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Context: Against docetism.
Bears on: X1
Status: verified (English)

Topic: church-authority

See church-authority reasoning.

PAP S1: Romans, prologue

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0107.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “presides in the place of the region of the Romans, worthy of God, worthy of honour, worthy of the highest happiness, worthy of praise, worthy of obtaining her every desire, worthy of being deemed holy, and which presides over love, is named from Christ, and from the Father, which I also salute in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father: to those who are united, both according to the flesh and spirit, to every …”
Context: Honour of the Roman church.
Bears on: P1
Status: verified (English)