Ignatius of Antioch
Church father · died c. 108
Bishop of Antioch, taken to Rome under guard and thrown to the beasts there in the reign of Trajan. On the way he wrote seven letters, to the Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, Romans, Philadelphians, and Smyrnaeans, and to Polycarp. The letters also survive in a longer form, enlarged in the 4th century; the Ante-Nicene Fathers prints both.
Quoted For
- 1 Timothy 3:16 “God”
The church fathers are the early Christian writers. Their quotations show which reading was known, where, and when, often earlier than any manuscript of the passage that survives.
