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   Title: The Apostolic Fathers: I Clement, II Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp,
   Didache, Barnabas, The Shepherd of Hermas, The Martyrdom of Polycarp, The
   Epistle of Dionetus
   Creator(s): Lake, Kirsopp (1872-1946)
   Print Basis: Loeb Classical Library, first published 1913
   Language: Greek
   Rights: Public Domain
   CCEL Subjects: All; Early Church
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   THE APOSTOLIC

   FATHERS

   I CLEMENT    ·    II CLEMENT

   IGNATIUS    ·    POLYCARP

   DIDACHE    ·    BARNABAS

   THE SHEPHERD OF HERMAS

   THE MARTYRDOM OF POLYCARP

   THE EPISTLE OF DIONETUS

   Based on the text of the Loeb Classical Library

   First published 1913
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   [most scholars consider this a homily and perhaps not by clement]
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  KLĒMENTOS PROS KORINThIOUS A

   Hē ekklēsia tou theou hē paroikousa ῾Rōmēn tē ekklēsia tou theou tē
   paroikousē Korinthon, klētois hēgiasmenois en thelēmati theou dia tou kuriou
   hēmōn Iēsou Christou. charis humin kai eirēnē apo pantokratoros theou dia
   Iēsou Christou plēthuntheiē.

    I

   1. Dia tas aiphnidious kai epallēlous genomenas hēmin sumphoras kai
   periptōseis, bradion nomizomen epistrophēn pepoiēsthai peri tōn
   epizētoumenōn par’ humin pragmatōn, agapētoi, tēs te allotrias kai xenēs
   tois eklektois tou theou, miaras kai anosiou staseōs hēn oliga prosōpa
   propetē kai authadē huparchonta eis tosouton aponoias exekausan, hōste to
   semnon kai periboēton kai pasin anthrōpois axiagapēton onoma humōn megalōs
   blasphēmēthēnai. 2. tis gar parepidēmēsas pros humas tēn panareton kai
   bebaian humōn pistin ouk edokimasen? tēn te sōphrona kai epieikē en Christō
   eusebeian ouk ethaumasen? kai to megaloprepes tēs philoxenias humōn ēthos
   ouk ekēruxen? kai tēn teleian kai asphalē gnōsin ouk emakarisen? 3.
   aprosōpolēmptōs gar panta epoieite kai en tois nomimois tou theou
   eporeusthe, hupotassomenoi tois par’ humin presbuterois; neois te metria kai
   semna noein epetrepete; gunaixin te en amōmō kai semnē kai hagnē suneidēsei
   panta epitelein parēngellete, stergousas kathēkontōs tous andras heautōn; en
   te tō kanoni tēs hupotagēs ta kata ton oikon semnōs oikourgein edidaskete,
   panu sōphronousas.

    II

   1. Pantes te etapeinophroneite mēden alazoneuomenoi, hupotassomenoi mallon
   ē hupotassontes, hēdion didontes ē lambanontes. tois ephodiois tou Christou
   arkoumenoi, kai prosechontes tous logous autou epimelōn enesternismenoi ēte
   tois splanchnois, kai ta pathēmata autou hēn pro ophthalmōn humōn. 2. houtōs
   eirēnē batheia kai lipara ededoto pasin kai akorestos pothos eis
   agathopoiian, kai plērēs pneumatos hagiou ekchusis epi pantas egineto; 3.
   mestoi te hosias boulēs, en agathē prothumia met’ eusebeous pepoithēseōs
   exeteinete tas cheiras humōn pros ton pantokratora theon, hiketeuontes auton
   hileōs genesthai, ei ti akontes hēmeirtete. 4. agōn ēn humin hēmeras te kai
   nuktos huper pasēs tēs adelphotētos, eis to sōzesthai met’ eleous kai
   suneidēseōs ton arithmon tōn eklektōn autou. 5. eilikrineis kai akeraioi ēte
   kai amnēsikakoi eis allēlous. 6. pasa stasis kai pan schisma bdelukton ēn
   humin. epi tois paraptōmata autōn idia plēsion epentheite; ta husterēmata
   autōn idia ekrinete. 7. ametamelētoi ēte epi pasē agathopoiia, hetoimoi eis
   pan ergon agathon. 8. tē panaretō kai sebasmiō politeia kekosmēmenoi panta
   en tō phobō autou epeteleite; ta prostagmata kai ta dikaiōpmata tou kuriou
   epi ta platē tēs kardias humōn egegrapto.

    III

   1. Pasa doxa kai platusmos edothē humin, kai epetelesthē to gegrammenon;
   Ephagen kai epien, kai eplatunthē, kai epachunthē, kai apelaktisen ho
   ēgapēmenos. 2. ek toutou zēlos kai phthonos, polemos kai aichmalōsia. 3.
   houtōs epēgerthēsan hoi atimoi epi tous entimous, hoi adoxoi epi tous
   endoxous, hoi aphrones epi tous phronimous, hoi neoi epi tous presbuterous.
   4. dia touto porrō apestin hē dikaiosunē kai eirēnē, en tō apolipein
   hekaston ton phobon tou theou kai en tē pistei autou ambluōpēsai, mēde en
   tois nomimois tōn prostagmatōn autou proeuesthai, mēde politeuesthai kata to
   kathēkon tō Christō, alla hekaston badizein kata tas epithumias tēs kardias
   autou tēs ponēras, zēlon adikon kai asebē aneilēphotas, di’ hou kai thanatos
   eisēlthen eis ton kosmon.

    IV

   1. Getraptai gar houtōs; Kai egeneto meth’ hēmeras, ēnenken Kain apo tōn
   karpōn tēs gēs thusian tō theō, kai Abel ēnenken kai autos apo tōn
   prōtotokōn tōn probatōn kai apo tōn steatōn autōn. 2. kai epeiden ho theos
   epi Abel kai epi tois dōrois autou, epi de Kain kai epi tais thusiais autou
   ou proseschen. 3. kai elupēthē Kain kai sunepesen tō prosōpō autou. 4. kai
   eipen ho theos pros Kain; Hinati perilupos egenou, kai hinati sunepesen to
   proōpon sou? ouk ean orthōs prosenenkēs, orthōs de mē dielēs, hēmartes? 5.
   hēsuchason; pros se hē aposrophē autou, kai su arxeis autou. 6. kai eipen
   Kain pros Abel ton adelphon autou; Dielthōmen eis to pedion. kai egeneto en
   tō einai autous en tō pediō, anestē Kain epi Abel ton adelphon autou kai
   apekteinen auton. 7. horate, adelphoi, zēlos kai phthonos adelphoktonian
   kateirgasato. 8. dia zēlos ho patēr hēmōn Iakōb apedra apo prosōpou Ēsau tou
   adelphou autou. 9. zēlos epoiēsen Iōsēph mechri thanatou diōchthēnai kai
   mechri douleias eiselthein. 10 zēlos phugein ēnankasen Mōusēn apo prosōpou
   Pharaō basileōs Aiguptou en tō akousai auton apo tou homophulou. Tis se
   katestēsen kritēn ē dikastēn eph’ hēmōn? mē anelein me su theleis, hon
   tropon aneiles echthes ton Aiguption? 11. dia zēlos Aarōn kai Mariam exō tēs
   parembolēs ēulisthēsan. 12. zēlos Dathan kai Abeirōn zōntas katēgagen eis
   hadou dia to stasiasai autous pros ton theraponta tou theou Mōusēn. 13. dia
   zēlos Daueid phthonon eschen ou monon hupo tōn allophulōn, alla kai hupo
   Saoul basileōs Israēl ediōchthē.

    V

   1. All’ hina tōn archaiōn hupodeigmatōn pausōmetha, ethōmen epi tous engista
   genomenous athlētas; labōmen tēs geneas hēmōn ta gennaia hupodeigmata. 2.
   dia zēlon kai phthonon hoi megistoi kai dikaiotatoi stuloi ediōchthēsan kai
   heōs thanatou ēthlēsan. 3. labōmen pro ophthalmōn hēmōn tous agathous
   apostolous; 4. Petron, hos dia zēlon adikon ouch hena oude duo, alla
   pleionas hupēnenken ponous kai houtō marturēsas eporeuthē eis ton
   opheilomenon topon tēs doxēs. 5. dia zēlon kai erin Paulos hupomonēs
   brabeion hupedeixen, 6. heptakis desma phoresas, phugadeutheis, lithastheis,
   kērux genomenos en te tē analē kai en tē dusei, to gennaion tēs piteōs autou
   kleos elaben. 7. dikaiosunēn didaxas holon ton ton kosmon, kai epi to terma
   tēs duseōs elthōn kai marturēsas epi tōn hēgoumenōn, houtōs apēllagē tou
   kosmou kai eis ton hagion topon anelēmphthē, hupomonēs genomenos megistos
   hupogrammos.

    VI

   1. Tauta, agapētoi, ou monon humas nouthetountes epistellomen, alla kai
   heautous hupomimnēskontes; en gar tō autō esmen skammati, kai ho autos hēmin
   agōn epikeitai. 2. dio apolipōmen tas kenas kai mataias phrontidas, kai
   elthōmen epi ton eukleē kai semnon tēs paradoseōs hēmōn kanona, 3. kai
   enōpion tou poiēsantos hēmas. 4. atenisōmen eis to haima tou Christou kai
   gnōmen, hōs estin timion tō patri autou, hoti dia tēn hēmeteran sōtērian
   ekchuthen panti tō kosmō metanoias charin huēnenken. 5. dielthōmen eis tas
   geneas pasas, kai katamathōmen hoti en genea kai genea metanoias topon
   edōken ho despotēs tois boulomenois epistraphēnai ep’ auton. 6. Nōe ekēruxen
   metanoian, kai hoi hupakousantes esōthēsan. 7. Iōnas Nineuitais katastrophēn
   ekēruxen; hoi de metanoēsantes epi tois hamartēmasin autōn exilasanto ton
   theon hiketeusantes kai elabon sōtērian, kaiper allotrioi tou theou ontes.

    VII

   1. Tauta, agapētoi, ou monon humas nouthetountes epistellomen, alla kai
   heautous hupomimnēskontes; en gar tō autō esmen skammati, kai ho autos hēmin
   agōn epikeitai. 2. dio apolipōmen tas kenas kai mataias phrontidas, kai
   elthōmen epi ton eukleē kai semnon tēs paradoseōs hēmōn kanona, 3. kai
   enōpion tou poiēsantos hēmas. 4. atenisōmen eis to haima tou Christou kai
   gnōmen, hōs estin timion tō patri autou, hoti dia tēn hēmeteran sōtērian
   ekchuthen panti tō kosmō metanoias charin huēnenken. 5. dielthōmen eis tas
   geneas pasas, kai katamathōmen hoti en genea kai genea metanoias topon
   edōken ho despotēs tois boulomenois epistraphēnai ep’ auton. 6. Nōe ekēruxen
   metanoian, kai hoi hupakousantes esōthēsan. 7. Iōnas Nineuitais katastrophēn
   ekēruxen; hoi de metanoēsantes epi tois hamartēmasin autōn exilasanto ton
   theon hiketeusantes kai elabon sōtērian, kaiper allotrioi tou theou ontes.

    VIII

   1. Hoi leitourgoi tēs charitos tou theou dia pneumatos hagiou peri metanoias
   elalēsan. 2. kai autos de ho despotēs tōn hapantōn peri metanoias elalēsen
   meta horkou; Zō gar egō, legei kurios, ou boulomai ton thanaton tou
   hamartōlou hōs tēn metanoian, prostitheis kai gnōmēn agathēn; 3.
   Metanoēsate, oikos Israēl, apo tēs anomias humōn; eipon tois huiois tou laou
   mou. Ean ōsin hai hamartiai humōn apo tēs gēs heōs tou ouranou kai ean ōsin
   purroterai kokkou kai melanōterai sakkou, kai epistraphēte pros me ex holēs
   tēs kardias kai eipēte; Pater; epakousomai humōn hōs laou hagiou. 4. kai en
   heterō topō legei houtōs; Lousasthe kai katharoi genesthe, aphelesthe tas
   ponērias apo tōn psuchōn humōn apenanti tōn ophthalmōn mou; pausasthe apo
   tōn ponēriōn humōn, mathete kalon poiein, ekzētēsate krisin, rhusasthe
   adikoumenon, krinate orphanō kai dikaiōsate chēra; kai deute kai
   dielenchthōmen, legei kurios; kai ean ōsin hai hamartiai humōn hōs
   phoinikoun, hōs chiona leukanō; ean de ōsin hōs kokkinon, hōs erion leukanō;
   kai ean thelēte kai eisakousēte mou, ta agatha tēs gēs phagesthe; ean de mē
   thelēte mēde eisakousēte mou, machaira humas katedetai; to gar stoma kuriou
   elalēsen tauta. 5. pantas oun tous agapētous autou boulomenos metanoias
   metaschein estērixen tō pantokratorikō boulēmati autou.

    IX

   1. Dio upakousōmen tē megaloprepei kai endoxō boulēsei autou, kai hiketai
   benomenoi tou eleous kai tēs chrēstotētos autou prospesōmen kai
   epistrepsōmen epi tous oiktirmous autou, apolipontes tēn mataioponian tēn te
   erin kai to eis thanaton agon zēlos. 2. atenisōmen eis tous teleiōs
   leitourgēsantas tē megaloprepei doxē autou. 3. labōmen Enōch, hos en
   hupakoē dikaios heuretheis metetethē, kai ouch heurethē autou thanatos. 4.
   Nōe pistos heuretheis dia tēs leitourgias autou palingensian kosmō ekēruxen,
   kai diesōsen di’ autou ho despotēs ta eiselthonta en homonoia zōa eis tēn
   kibōton.

    X

   1. Abraam, ho philos prosagoreutheis, pistos heurethē en tō auton hupēkoon
   genesthai tois rhēmasin tou theou. 2. houtos di’ hupakoēs exēlthen ek tēs
   gēs autou kai ek tēs sungeneias autou kai ek tou oikou tou patros autou,
   hopōs gēn oligēn kai sungeneian asthenē kai oikon mikron katalipōn
   klēronomēsē tas eangelias tou theou. legei gar autō; 3. Apelthe ek tēs gēs
   sou kai ek tēs sungeneias sou, kai esē eulogēmenos; kai eulogēsō tous
   eulogountas se kai katarasomai tous katarōmenous se. kai eulogēthēsontai en
   soi pasai hai phulai tēs gēs. 4. kai palin en tō diachōristhēnai auton apo
   Lōt eipen autō ho theos. Anablepsas tois ophthalmois sou ide apo tou topou,
   hou nun su ei, pros borran kai liba kai anatolas kai thalassan, hoti´pasan
   tēn gēn hēn su horas, soi dōsō autēn kai tō spermati sou heōs aiōnos. 5. kai
   poiēsō to sperma sou hōs tēn ammon tēs gēs, ei dunatai tis exarithmēsai tēn
   ammon tēs gēs, kai to sperma sou exarithmēthēsetai. 6. kai palin legei;
   Exēgagen ho theos ton Abraam kai arithmēson tous asteras, ei dunēsē
   exarithmēsai autous; houtōs estai to sperma sou. episteusen de Abraam tō
   theō, kai elogisthē autō eis dikaiosunēn. 7. dia pistin kai philoxenian
   edothē autō huios en gēra, kai di’ hupakoēs prosēnenken auton thusian tō
   theō pros to oros ho edeixen autō.

    XI

   1. Dia philoxenian kai eusebeian Lōt esōthē ek Sodomōn, tēs perichōrou pasēs
   kritheisēs dia puros kai theiou, prodēlon poiēsas ho despotēs, hoti tous
   epizontas ep’ auton ouk enkataleipei, tous de heteroklineis huparchontas eis
   kolasin kai aikismon tithēsin. 2. sunexelthousēs gar autō tēs gunaikos
   heterognōmonos huparchousēs kai ouk en homonoia, eis touto sēmeion etethē,
   hōste genesthai autēn stēlēn halos heōs tēs hēmeras tautēs, eis to gnōston
   einai pasin, hoti hoi dipsuchoi kai hoi distazontes peri tēs tou theou
   dunameōs eis krima kai eis sēmeiōsin pasais tais geneais ginontai.

    XII

   1. Dia pistin kai philoxenian esōthē ῾Raab hē pornē. 2. ekpemphthentōn gar
   hupo Iēsou tou tou Nauē kataskopōn eis tēn Hierichō, egnō ho basileus tēs
   gēs, hoti hēkasin kataskopeusai tēn chōran autōn, kai exepempsen andras tous
   sullēmpsomenous autous, hopōs sullēmphthentes thanatōthōsin. 3. hē oun
   philoxenos ῾Raab eisdexamenē autous ekrupsen eis to huperōon hupo tēn
   linokalamēn. 4. epistathentōn de tōn para tou basileōs kai legontōn; Pros se
   eisēlthon hoi basileus houtōs keleuei, hēde apekrithē; Eisēlthon men hoi
   andres, ohus zēteite, pros me, all’ eutheōs apē¨lthon kai poreuontai tē
   hodō; uodeiknuousa autois enallax. 5. kai eipen pros tous andras; Ginōskosa
   ginōskō egō, hoti kurios ho theos paradidōsin humin tēn tēn tautēn; ho gar
   phobos autēn. hōs ean oun genētai labein autēn humas, diasōsate me kai ton
   oikon tou patros mou. 6. kai eipan autē; Estai houtōs, hōs elalēsas hēmin,
   hōs´pantas tous sous hupo to stegos sou, kai diasōthēsontai; hosoi gar ean
   heurethōsin exō tēs oikias, apolountai. 7. kai prosethento autē dounai
   sēmeion, hopōs ekkremasē ek tou oikou autēs kokkinon, prodēlon poiountes,
   hoti dia tou haimatos tou kuriou lutrōsis estai pasin tois pisteuousin kai
   elpizousin epi ton theon. 8. horate, agapētoi, hoti ou monon pistis, alla
   kai prophēteia en tē gunaiki gegonen.

    XIII

   1. Tapeinophronēsōmen oun, adelphoi, apothemenoi pasan alazoneian kai tuphos
   kai aphrosunēn kai orgas, kai poiēsōmen to gegrammenon, legei gar to pneuma
   to hagion; Mē kauchasthō ho sophos en tē sophia autou mēde ho ischuros en
   tō ploutō autou, all’ hē ho kauchōmenos en kuriō dauchasthō, tou ekzētein
   auton kai poiein krima kai dikaiosunēn; malista memnēmenoi tōn logōn tou
   kuriou Iēsou, ohus elalēsen dedaskōn epieikeian kai makrothumian. 2. houtōs
   gar eipen; Eleate, hina eleēthēte; aphiete, hina aphethē humin; hōs
   chrēsteuesthe, houtōs psrēsteuthēsetai humin; hō metrō metreite, en autō
   metrēthēsetai humin. 3. tautē tē entolē kai tois parangelmasin toutois
   stērixōmen heautous eis logois autou, tapeinophronountes; phēsin gar ho
   hagios logos; 4. Epi tina epiblepsō, all’ ē epi ton praun kai hēsuchion kai
   tremonta mou ta logia.

    XIV

   1. Dikaion oun kai hosion, andres adelphoi, hupēkoous hēmas mallon genesthai
   tō theō ē tois en alazoneia kai akatastasia muserou zēlous archēgois
   exakolouthein. 2. blabēn gar ou tēntuchousan, mallon de kindunon hupoisomen
   megan, ean rhipsokindunōs epidōmen heautous tois thelēmasin tōn anthrōpōn,
   hoitines exakontizousin eis erin kai staseis, eis to apallotriōsai hēmas tou
   kalōs echontos. 3. chrēsteusōmetha heautois kata tēn eusplanchnian kai
   glukutēta tou poiēsantos hēmas. 4. gegraptai gar; Chrēstoi esontai oikētroes
   gēs, akakaoi de hupoleiphthēsontai ep’ autēs; hoi de paranomountes
   exolethreuthēsontai ap’ autēs. 5. kai palin legei; Eidon asebē
   huperupsoumenon kai epairomenon hōs tas kedrous tou Libanou; kai parēlthon,
   kai idou ouk ēn, kai exezētēsa ton topon autou, kai ouch heuron. phulasse
   akakian kai ide euthutēta, hoti estin enkataleimma anthrōpō eirēnikō.

    XV

   1. Toinun kollēthōmen tois met’ eusebeias erēneuousin, kai mē tois meth’
   hupokriseōs boulomenois erēnēn. 2. legei gar pou; Houtos ho laos tois
   cheilesin me tima, hē de kardia autōn porrō apestin ap’ emou. 3. kai palin;
   Tō stomati autōn katērōnto. 4. kai palin legei; Ēgapēsan auton tō stomati
   autōn kai tē glōssē autōn epseusanto auton, hē de kardia autōn ouk eutheia
   met’ autou, oude epistōthēsan en tē diathēkē autou. 5. dia touto alala
   genēthētō ta cheilē ta dolia ta lalounta kata tou dikaiou anomian. kai
   palin; Exolethreusai kurios panta ta cheilē ta dolia, glōssan megalorēmona,
   tous eipontas; Tēn glōssan hēmōn megalunoumen, ta cheilē hēmōn par’ hēmin
   estin; tis hēmōn kurios estin? 6. apo tēs talaipōrias tōn ptōchōn kai tou
   stenagmou tōn penētōn nun anastēsomai, legei kurios; thēsomai en sōtēriō, 7.
   parrēsiasomai en autō.

    XVI

   1. Tapeinophronountōn gar estin ho Christos ouk epairomenōn epi to poimnion
   autou. 2. to skēptron tēs megalōsunēs tou theou, ho kurios Iēsous Christos,
   kaiper dunamenos, alla tapeinophronōn, kathōs to pneuma to hagion peri autou
   elalēsen; phēsin gar; 3. Kurie, tis episteusen tē akoē hēmōn? kai ho
   brachiōn kuriou tini apekaluphthē? anēngeilamen enantion autou, hōs paidion,
   hōs rhiza en gē dipsōsē; ouk estin autō eidos oude doxa, kai eidomen auton,
   kai ouk eichen eidos oude kallos, alla to eidos autou atimon, ekleipon para
   to eidos tōn anthrōpōn; anthrōpos en plēgē ōn kai ponō kai eidōs pherein
   malakian, hoti apestraptai to prosōpon autou, ētimasthē kai ouk elogisthē;
   4. houtos tas hamartias hēmōn pherei kai peri hēmōn adunatai, kai hēmeis
   elogisametha auton einai en ponō kai en plēgē kai en kakōsei; 5. autos de
   etraumatisthē dia tas hamartias hēmōn kai memalakistai dia tas anomias
   hēmōn. paideia eirēnēs hēmōn ep’ auton; tō mōlōpi autou hēmeis iathēmen. 6.
   pantes hōs probata eplanēthēmen, anthrōpos tē hodō autou eplanēthē; 7. kai
   kurios paredōken auton huper tōn hamartiōn hēmōn, kai autos dia to
   kekakōsthai ouk anoigei to stoma. hōs probaton epi sphagēn ēchthē, kai hōs
   amnos enantion tou keirantos aphōnos, houtōs ouk anoigei to stoma autou. en
   tē tapeinōsei hē krisis autou ērthē. 8. tēn genean autou tis diēgēsetai?
   hoti airetai apo tēs gēs hē zōē autou. 9. apo tōn anomiōn tou laou mou hēkei
   eis thanaton. 10. dōsō tous ponērous anti tēs taphēs autou kai tous
   plousious anti tou thanatou autou; hoti anomian ouk epoiēsen, oude heurethē
   dolos en tō stomati autou. kai kurios bouletai katharisai auton tēs plēgēs.
   11. ean dōte peri hamartias, hē psuchē humōn opsetai sperma makrobion. 12.
   kai kurios bouletai aphelein apo tou ponou tēs psuchēs autou, deixai autō
   phōs kai plasai tē sunesei, dikaion eu douleuonta pollois. kai tas hamartias
   autōn autos anoisei. 13. dia touto autos klēronomēsei polllous kai tōn
   ischurōn meriei skula; anth’ hōn paredothē eis thanaton hē psuchē autou, kai
   en tois anomois elogisthē. 14. kai autos hamartias pollōn anēnenken kai dia
   tas hamartias autōn paredothē. 15. kai´palin autos phēsin; Egō de eimi
   skōlēx kai ouk anthrōpos, oneidos anthrōpōn kai exouthenēma laou. 16. pantes
   hoi theōrountes me exemuktērisan me. elalēsan en cheilesin, ekinēsan
   kephalēn; Ēlpisen epi kurion, rhusasthō auton, sōsatō auton, hoti thelei
   auton. 17. horate, andres agapētoi, tis ho hupogrammos ho dedomenos hēmin;
   ei gar ho kurios houtōs etapeinophronēsen, ti poiēsōmen hēmeis hoi hupo ton
   zugon tēs charitos autou di’ autou elthontes?

    XVII

   1. Mimētai genōmetha kakeinōn, hoitines en dermasin aigeiois kai mēlōtais
   periepatēsan kērussontes tēn eleusin tou Christou; legomen de Ēlian kai
   Helisaie, eti de kai Iezekiēl, tous prophētas; pros toutois kai tous
   memarturēmenous. 2. emarturēthē megalōs Abraam kai philos prosēgoreuthē tou
   theou, kai legei atenizōn eis tēn doxan tou theou tapeinophronōn; Egō de
   eimi gē kai spodos. 3. eti de kai peri Iōb houtōs gegraptai; Iōb de ēn
   dikaios kai amemptos, alēthinos, theosebēs, apechomenos apo pantos kakou. 4.
   all’ autos heautou katēgorei legōn; Oudeis katharos apo rhupou, oud’ an mias
   hēmeras hē zōē autou. 5. Mōusēs pistas en holō tō oikō autou eklēthē, kai
   dia tēs hupēresias hautou ekrinen ho theos Aigupton dia tōn mastigōn kai tōn
   aikismatōn autōn; alla kakeinos doxastheis megalōs ouk emegalorēmonēsen,
   all’ eipen ek tēs batou chrēmatismou autō didomenou; Tis eimi egō, hoti me
   pempeis? Egō de eimi ischnophōnos kai braduglōssos. 6. kai palin legei; Egō
   de eimi atmis apo kuthras.

    XVIII

   1. Ti de eipōmen epi tō memarturēmenō Daueid eph’ hou eipen ho theos; Heuron
   andra kata tēn kardian mou, Daueid ton tou Iessai, en eleei aiōniō echrisa
   auton. 2. alla kai autos legei pros ton theon; Eleēson me, ho theos, kata to
   mega eleos sou, kai kata to plēthos tōn oiktirmōn sou exaleipson to anomēma
   mou. 3. epi pleion plunon me apo tēs anomias mou emōpion mou estin
   diapantos. 4. soi monō hēmarton, kai to ponēron enōpion sou epoiēsa, hopōs
   an dikaiōthēs en tois logois sou. kai nikēsēs en tō krinesthai se. 5. idou
   gar en anomiais sunelēmphthēn, kai en hamartiais ekissēsen me hē mētēr mou.
   6. idou gar alētheian ēgapēsas; ta adēla kai ta kruphia tēs sophias sou
   edēlōsas moi. 7. rhantieis me hussōpō, kai katharisthēsomai; pluneis me kai
   huper chiona leukanthēsomai. 8. akoutieis me agalliasin kai euphrosunēn.
   agalliasonta osta tetapeinōmena. 9. apostrepson to prosōpon sou apo tōn
   hamartiōn mou, kai pasas tas anomias mou exaleipson. 10. kardian katharan
   ktison en emoi, ho theos, kai pneuma euthes enkainison en tois enkatois mou.
   11. mē aporipsēs me apo tou prosōpou sou, kai to pneuma to hagion sou mē
   antanelēs ap’ emou. 12. apodos moi tēn agalliasin tou sōtēriou sou, kai
   pneumati hēgemonikō stērison me. 13. didaxō anomous tas hodous sou, kai
   asebeis epistrepsousin epi se. 14. rhusai me ex haimatōn, ho theos, ho theos
   tēs sōtērias mou. 15. agalliasetai hē glōsasa mou tēn dikaiosunēn sou.
   kurie, to stoma mou anoixeis, kai ta cheilē mou anangelei tēn ainesin sou.
   16. hoti ei ēthelēsas thusian, edōka an holokautōmata ouk eudokēseis. 17.
   thusia tō theō pneuma suntetrimmenon; kardian suntetrimmenēn kai
   tetapeinōmenēn ho theos ouk exouthenōsei.

    XIX

   1. Tōn tosoutōn oun kai toioutōn houtōs memarturēmenōn to tapeinophron kai
   to hupodees dia tēs hupakoēs ou monon hēmas, alla kai tas pro hēmōn geneas
   beltious epoiēsen, tous te katadexamenous ta logia autou en phobō kai
   alētheia. 2. pollōn oun kai megalōn kai endoxōn meteilēphotes praxeōn
   epanadramōmen epi ton ex archēs paradedomenon hēmin tēs eirēnēs skopon, kai
   atenisōmen eis ton patera kai ktistēn tou sumpantos kosmou kai tais
   megaloprepesi kai huperballousais autou dōreais tēs eirēnēs euergesiais te
   kollēthōmen. 3. idōmen auton kata dianoian kai emblepsōmen tois ommasin tēs
   psuchēs eis to makrothumon autou boulēma; noēsōmen, pōs aorgētos huparchei
   pros pasan tēn ktisin autou.

    XX

   1. Hoi ouranoi tē dioikēsei autou saleuomenoi en eirēnē hupotassontai autō.
   2. hēmera te kai nux ton tetagmenon hup’ autou dromon dianuousin, mēden
   allēlois empodizonta. 3. hēlios te kai selēnē, asterōn te choroi kata tēn
   diatagēn autou en homonoia dicha pasēs parekbaseōs exelissousin tous
   epitetagmepnous autois horismous. 4. gē kuophorousa kata to thelēma autou
   tois idiois kairois tēn panplēthē anthrōpois te kai thērsin kai pasin tois
   ousin ep’ autēs zōois anatellei trophēn, mē dichostatousa mēde alloiousa ti
   tōn dedogmatismenōn hup’ autou. 5. abussōn te anexichniasta kai nerteōn
   anekdiēgēta klimata tois autois sunechetai prostagmasin. 6. to kutos tēs
   apeirou thalassēs kata tēn dēmiourgian autou sustathen eis tas sunagōgas ou
   parekbainei ta peritetheimena autē kleithra, alla kathōs detaxen autē,
   houtōs poiei. 7. eipen gar; Heōs hōde hēxeis, kai ta kumata sou en soi
   suntribēsetai. 8. ōkeanos aperantos anthrōpois kai hoi met’ auton kosmoi
   tais autais tagais tou despotou dieuthunontai. 9. kairoi earinoi kai
   therinoi kai metopōrinoi kai pseimerinoi en eirēnē metaparadidoasin
   allēlois. 10. anemōn stathmoi kata ton idion kairon tēn leitourgian autōn
   aproskopōs epitelousin; aenaoi te pēgai, pros apolausin kai ugeian
   dēmiourgētheisai, dicha elleipseōs parechontai tous pros zōēs anthrōpois
   mazous; ta te elachista tōn zōōn tas suneleuseis autōn en homonoia kai
   eirēnē poiountai. 11. tauta panta ho megas dēmiourgos kai despotēs tōn
   hapantōn en eirēnē kai homonoia prosetaxen einai, euergetōn ta panta,
   huperekperissōs de hēmas tous prospepheugontas tois oiktirmois autou dia tou
   kuriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou, 12. ō hē doxa kai hē megalōsunē eis tous aiōnas
   tōn aiōnōn. amēn.

    XXI

   1. Horate, agapētoi, mē hai euergesiai autou hai pollai genōntai eis krima
   hēmin, ean mē axiōs autou politeuomenoi ta kala kai euaresta enōpion autou
   poiōmen meth’ homonoias. 2. legei gar pou; Pneuma kuriou luchnos ereunōn ta
   tamieia tēs gastros; 3. idōmen, pōs engus estin, kai hoti ouden lelēthen
   auton tōn ennoiōn hēmōn oude tōn dialogismōn hōn poioumetha; 4. dikaion oun
   estin mē leipotaktein hēmas apo tou thelēmatos autou. 5. mallon anthrōpois
   aphrosi kai anoētois kai epairomenois kai enkauchōmenois en alazoneia tou
   logou autōn proskopsōmen ē tō theō. 6. ton kurion Iēsoun Christon, hou to
   haima huper hēmōn edothē, entrapōmen tēn paideian tou phobou tou theou, tas
   gunaikas hēmōn epi to agathon diorthōsōmetha. 7. to akiagapēton tēs epieikes
   tēs glōssēs autōn dia tēs sigēs phaneron poiēsatōsan, tēn agapēn autōn mē
   kata proskliseis, alla pasin tois phoboumenois ton theon hosiōs isēn
   parechetōsan. 8. ta tekna hēmōn tēs en Christō paideias metalambanetōsan;
   mathetōsan, ti tapeinophrosunē para theō ischuei, ti agapē hagnē para theō
   dunati, pōs ho phobos autou kalos kai megas kai sōzōn pantas tous en autō
   hosiōs anastrephomenous en kathara. 9. ereunētēs gar estin ennoiōn kai
   enthumēseōn; hou hē pnoē autou en hēmin estin, kai hotan thelē, anelei
   autēn.

    XXII

   1. Tauta de panta bebaioi hē en Christō pistis; kai gar autos dia tou
   pneumatos tou hagiou houtōs proskaleitai hēmas; Deute, tekna, akousate mou,
   phobon kuriou didaxō humas. 2. tis estin anthrōpos ho thelōn zōēn, agapōn
   hēmeras idein agathos? 3. pauson tēn glōssan sou apo kakou, kai cheilē sou
   tou mē lalēsai dolon. 4. ekklinon apo kakou, kai poiēson agathon. 5. zētēson
   eirēnēn, kai diōxon autēn; 6. ophthalmoi kuriou epi dikaious, kai ōta autou
   pros deēsin autōn; prosōpon de kuriou epi poiountas kaka, tou exolethreusai
   ek gēs to mnēmosunon autōn. 7. ekekraxen ho dikaios, kai ho kurios
   eisēkousen autou, kai ek pasōn tōn thlipseōn autou erusato auton. 8. Pollai
   hai mastiges tou hamartōlou, tous de epizontas epi kurion eleos kuklōsei.

    XXIII

   1. Ho oiktirmōn kata panta kai euergetikos patēr echei splanchna epi tous
   phoboumenous auton, ēpiōs te kai prosēnōs tas charitas autou apodidoi tois
   proserchomenois autō haplē dianoia. 2. dio mē dipsuchōmen, mēde indallesthō
   hē psuchē hēmōn epi tais huperballousais kai endoxois dōreais autou. 3.
   porrō genesthō aph’ hēmōn hē graphē hautē, hopou legei; Talaipōroi eisin hoi
   dipsuchoi, hoi distazontes tē psuchē, hoi legontes; Tauta ēkousamen kai epi
   tōn paterōn hēmōn, kai idou, gegērakamen, kai ouden hēmin toutōn subebēken.
   4. ō anoētoi, sumbalete heautous xulō; labete ampelon; prōton men
   phulloroei, eita blastos ginetai, eita phullon, eita anthos, kai meta tauta
   omphax, eita staphulē parestēkuia. horate, hoti en kairō oligō eis pepeiron
   katanta ho karpos tou xulou. 5. ep’ alētheias tachu kai exaiphnēs
   teleiōthēsetai to boulēma autou, sunepimarturousēs kai tēs graphēs, hoti
   tachu hēxei kai ou chroniei, kai eaiphnēs hēxei ho kurios eis ton naon
   autou, kai ho hagios, hon humeis prosdokate.

    XXIV

   1. Katanoēsōmen, agapētoi, pōs ho despotēs epideiknutai diēnekōs hēmin tēn
   mellousan anastasin esesthai, hēs tēn aparchēn epoiēsato ton kurion Iēsoun
   Christon ek nekrōn anastēsas. 2. idōmen, agapētoi, tēn kata kairon ginomenēn
   anastasin. 3. hēmera kai nux anastasin hēmin dēlousin; koimatai hē nux,
   anistatai hē hēmera; hē hēmera apeisin, nux eperchetai. 4. labōmen tous
   karpous; ho sporos pōs kai tina tropon ginetai? 5. exēlthen ho speirōn kai
   ebalen eis tēn gēn hekaston tōn spermatōn, hatina pesonta eis tēn gēn xēra
   kai gumna dialuetai; eit’ ek tēs dialuseōs hē megaleiotēs tēs pronoias tou
   despotou anistēsin auta, kai ek tou henos pleiona auxei kai ekpherei
   karpon.

    XXV

   1. Idōmen to paradoxon sēmeion to ginomenon en tois anatolikois topois,
   toutestin tois peri tēn Arabian. 2. orneon gar estin, ho prosonomazetai
   phoinix; touto monogenes huparchon zē etē pentakosia, genomenon te ēdē pros
   apolusin tou apothanein auto, sēkon heautō poiei ek libanou kai smurnēs kai
   tōn loipōn arōmatōn, eis hon plērōthentos tou chronou eiserchetai kai
   teleuta. 3. sēpomenēs de tēs sarkos skōlēx tis gennatai, hos ek tēs ikmados
   tou teteleutēkotos zōou anatrephomenos pterophuei; eita gennaios genomenos
   airei ton sēkon ekeinon, hopou ta osta tou progegonotos estin, kai tauta
   bastazōn dianuei apo tēs Arabikēs chōras heōs tēs Aiguptou eis tēn legomenēn
   Hēlioupolin, 4. kai hēmeras, blepontōn pantōn, epiptas epi ton tou hēliou
   bōmon tithēsin auta kai houtōs eis toupisō aphorma. 5. hoi oun hiereis
   episkeptontai tas anagraphas tōn chronōn kai heuriskousin auton
   pentakosiostou etous peplērōmenou elēluthenai.

    XXVI

   1. Mega kai thaumaston oun nomizomen einai, ei hodēmiourgos tōn hapantōn
   anastasin poiēsetai tōn hosiōs autō douleusantōn en pepoithēsei pisteōs
   agathēs, hopou kai di’ orneou deiknusin hēmin to megaleion tēs epangelias
   autou? 2. legei gar pou; Kai exanastēseis me, kai exomologēsomai soi, kai;
   Ekoimēthēn kai exēgerthēn, hoti su met’ emou ei. 3. anazōpurēsatō oun hē
   pistis autou en humin, kai noēsōmen hoti panta engus autō estin. 4. en logō
   tēs megalōsunēs autou sunkatastrepsai. 5. Tis erei autō; Ti epoiēsas? ē tis
   antistēsetai tō kratei tēs ischuos autou? hote thelei kai hōs thelei poiēsei
   panta, kai ouden mē parelthē tōn dedgmatismenōn hup’ autou. 6. panta enōpion
   autou eisin, kai ouden lelēthen tēn boulēn autou, 7. ei hoi ouranoi
   diēgountai doxan theou, poiēsin de cheirōn autou anangelei to stereōma; hē
   hēmera tē hēmera ereugetai rhēma, kai nux nukti anangelei gnōsin; kai ouk
   eisin logoi oude laliai, hōn ouchi akouontai hai phōnai autōn.

    XXVII

   1. Tautē oun tē elpide prosdedesthōsan hai psupsai hēōn tō pistō en tais
   epangeliais kai tō dikaiō en tois krimassin. 2. ho parangeilas mē
   pseuesthai, pollō mallon autos ou pseusetai; ouden gar adunaton para tō
   theō ei mē to pseusasthai. 3. anazōpurēsatō oun hē pistis autou en hēmin,
   kai noēsōmen hoti panta engus autō en hēmin, kai noēsōmen hoti panta engus
   autō estin. 4. en logō tēs megalōsunēs autou sunestēsato ta panta, kai en
   logō dunatai auta katastrepsai. 5. Tis erei autō; Ti epoiēsas? ē tis
   antistēsetai tō kratei tēs ischuos autou? hote thelei kai hōs thelei poiēsei
   panta, kai ouden mē parelthē tōn dedegmatismenōn hup’ autou. 6. panta
   enōpion autou eisin, kai ouden lelēthen tēn bouēn autou, 7. ei hoi ouranoi
   diēgountai doxan theou, poiēsin de cheirōn autou anangelei to stereōma; hē
   hēmera tē hēmera ereugetai rhēma, kai nux nukti anangelei gnōsin; kai ouk
   eisin logoi oude laliai, hōn ouchi akouontai hai phōnai autōn.

    XXVIII

   1. Pantōn oun blepomenōn kai akouomenōn, phobēthōmen auton, kai apolipōmen
   phaulōn ergōn miaras epithumias, hina tō eleei autou skepasthōmen apo tōn
   mellontōn krimatōn. 2. pou gar tis hēmōn dunatia phugein apo tēs krataias
   cheiros autou? poios de komos dexetai tina tōn automolountōn ap’ autou? 3.
   legei gar pou to grapheion; Pou aphēxō kai pou krubēsomai apo tou prosōpou
   sou? ean anabō eis ton ouranon, su ekei ei; ean apelthō eis ta eschata tēs
   abussous, ekei to pneuma sou. 4. poi oun tis apelthē ē pou apodrasē apo tou
   ta panta emperiechontos?

    XXIX

   1. Proselthōmen oun autō en hosiotēti psuchēs, hagnas kai amiantous cheiras
   arontes pros auton, agapōntes ton epieikē kai eusplanchnon patera hēmōn, hos
   eklogēs meros hēmas epoiēsen eautō. 2. houtō gar gegraptai; Hote diemerizen
   ho hupsistos ethnē, hōs diepeiren huious Adam, estēsen horia ethnōn kata
   arithmon angelōn theou. egenēthē meris kurios lambanei heautō ethnos ek
   mesou ethnōn, hōsper lambanei anthrōpos tēn aparchēn autou tēs halō; kai
   exeleusetai ek tou ethnous ekeinou hagia hagiōn.

    XXX

   1. Hagiou oun meris huparchontes poiēsōmen ta tou hagiasmou panta,
   pheugontes katalalias, miaras te kai anagnous sumplokas, methas te kai
   neōterismous kai bdeluktas epithumias, museran moicheian , bdeluktēn
   huperēphanian. 2. Theos gar, phēsin, uperēphanois antitassetai, tapeinois,
   hois didōsin charin. 3. kollēthōmen oun ekeinois, hois hē charis apo tou
   theou dedotai; edusōmetha tēn homonoian tapeinophrnountes, enkrateuomenoi,
   apo pantos psithurismou kai katalalias porrō heautous poiountes, ergois
   dikaioumenoi, mē logois. 4. legei gar; Ho ta polla legōn kai antakousetai;
   ē ho eulalos oietai einai dikaios? 5. eulogēmenos gennētos gunaikos
   oligobios. mē polus en rhēmasin ginou. 6. ho epainos hēmōn estō en theō kai
   mē ex autōn; autepainetous gar misei ho theos. 7. hē marturia tēs agathēs
   praxeōs hēmōn didosthō hup’ allōn, kathōs edothē tois patrasin hēmōn tois
   dikaiois. 8. thrasos kai authadeia kai tolma tois katēramenois hupo tou
   theou; epieikeia kai tapeinophrosunē kai prautēs para tois ēulogēmenois hupo
   tou theou.

    XXXI

   1. Kollēthōmen oun tē eulogia autou kai idōmen, tines hai hodoi tēs
   eulogias. anatulixōmen ta ap’ archēs genomena. 2. tinos charin ēulogēthē ho
   patēr hēmōn Abraam, ouchi dikaiosunēn kai alētheian dia pisteōs poiēsas? 3.
   Isaak meta pepoithēseōs ginōskōn to mellon hēdeōs prosēgeto thusia. 4. Iakōb
   meta tapeinophrosunēs exechōrēsen tēs gēs autou di’ adelphon kai eporeuthē
   pros Laban kai edouleusen, kai edothē autō to dōdekaskēptron tou Israēl.

    XXXII

   1. Ho ean tis kath’ hen hekaton eilikrinōs katanoēsē, epignōsetai megaleia
   tōn hup’ autou dedomenōn dōreōn. 2. ex autou gar hiereis kai Leuitai pantes
   hoi leitourgountes tō thusiastēriō tou theou; ex autou basileis kai
   archontes kai hēgoumenoi kata ton Ioudan; ta de loipa skēptra autou ouk
   theou, hoti estai to sperma sou hōs hoi asteres tou ouranou. 3. pantes oun
   edoxasthēsan kai emegalunthēsan ou di’ autōn ē tōn ergōn autōn ē tēs
   dikaiopragias hēs kateirgasanto, alla dia tou thelēmatos autou. 4. kai
   hēmeis oun, dia thelēmatos autou en Christō Iēsou klēthentes, ou di’ heautōn
   dikaioumetha, oude dia tēs ergōn hōn kateirgasametha en hosiotēti kardias,
   alla dia tēs pisteōs, di’ hēs pantas tous ap’ aiōnos ho pantokratōr theos
   edikaiōsen; hō estō hē doxa eis tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn. amēn.

    XXXIII

   1. Ti oun poiēsōmen, adelphoi? argēsōmen apo tēs agathopoiias kai
   enkatalipōmen tēn agapēn? mathamōs touto easai ho despotēs eph’ hēmin ge
   genēthēnai, alla speusōmen meta ekteneias kai prothumias pan ergon agathon
   epitelein. 2. autos gar ho dēmiourgos kai despotēs tōn hapantōn epi tois
   ergois autou agalliatai. 3. tō gar pammegethestatō autou sunesei diekosmēsen
   autous; gē te diechōrisen apo tou periechontos autēn hudatos kai hēdrasen
   epi ton asphalē tou idion boulēmatos themelion; ta te en autē zōa phoitōnta
   tē heautou diataxei ekeleusen einai; thalassan kai ta en autē zōa
   proetoimasas enekleisen tē heautou dunamei. 4. epi pasi to exochōtaton kai
   pammegethes kata dianoian, anthrōpon, tais hierais kai amōmois chersin
   eplasen tēs eautou eikonos charaktēra. 5. houtōs gar phēsin ho theos;
   Poiēpsōmen anthrōpon kat’ eikona kai kath’ homoiōsin hēmeteran; kai epoiēsen
   ho theos ton athrōpon, arsen kai thēlu epoiēsen autous. 6. tauta oun panta
   teleiōsas epēnesen auta kai ēulogēsen kai eipen; Auxanesthe kai
   plēthunesthe. 7. idōmen, hoti en ergois agathois pantes ekosmēthēsan hoi
   dikaioi, kai autos de ho kurios ergois agathois heauton kosmēsas echarē. 8.
   echontes oun touton ton hupogrammon aoknōs proselthōmen tō thelēmati autou;
   ex holēs tēs ischuos hēmōn ergasōmetha ergon dikaiosunēs.

    XXXIV

   1. Ho agathos ergatēs meta parrēsias lambanei ton arton tou ergou autou, ho
   nōthros kai pareimenos ouk antophthalmei tō ergoparektē autou. 2. deon oun
   estin prothumous hēmas einai eis agathopoiian; ex autou gar estin ta panta.
   3. prolegei gar hēmin; Idou ho kurios, kai ho misthos autou pro prosōpou
   autou, apodounai hekastō kata to ergon autou. 4. protrepetai oun hēmas
   pisteuontas ex holēs tēs kardias ep’ autō mē artous mēde pareimenous einai
   epi pan ergon agathon. 5. to kauchēma hēmōn kai hē parrēsia estō en autō;
   hupotassōmetha tō thelēmati autou; katanoēsōmen to pan plēthos tōn angelōn
   autou, pōs tō thelēmati autou leitourgousin parestōtes. 6. legei gar hē
   graphē; Muiai muriades pareistēkeisan autō, kai chiliai chiliades
   eleitourgoun autō, kai ekekragon, Hagios, hagios, hagios kurios sabaōth,
   plērēs pasa hē ktisis tēs doxēs autou. 7. kai hēmeis, oun en homonoia epi to
   auto sunachthentes tē suneidēsei, hōs ex henos stomatos boēsōmen pros auton
   ektenōs eis to metochous hēmas genesthai tōn megalōn kai endoxōn epangeliōn
   autou. 8. legei gar; Ophthalmos ouk eiden, kai ous ouk anebē, hosa
   hētoimasen kurios tois hupomenousin auton.

    XXXV

   1. Hōs makaria kai thaumasta ta dōra tou theou, agapētoi. 2. zōē en
   athanasia, lamprotēs en dikaiosunē, alētheia en parrēsia, pistis en
   pepoithēsei, enkrateia en hagiasmō; kai tauta hupepipten panta hupo tēn
   dianoian hēmōn. 3. tina oun ara estin ta hetoimazomena tois hupomenousin? ho
   dēmiourgos kai patēr tōn aiōnōn ho panagios autos ginōskei tēn posotēta kai
   tēn kallonēn autōn. 4. hēmeis oun agōnisōmetha heurethēnai en tō arithmō tōn
   hupomenontōn, hopōs metalabōmen tōn epēngelmenōn dōreōn. 5. pōs de estai
   touto, agapētoi? ean estērigmenē ē hē dianoia hēmōn pistōs pros ton theon,
   ean epitelesōmen ta anēkonta tē hodō tēs alētheias, aorripsantes aph’
   heautōn pasan adikian kai ponērian, pleonexian, ereis, kakoētheias te kai
   dolous, psithurismous te kai katalalias, theostugian, huperēphanin te kai
   alazoneian, kenodoxian te kai aphiloxenian. 6. tauta gar hoi prassontes
   stugētoi tō theō huparchousin; ou monon de hoi prassontes auta, alla kai hoi
   suneudokountes autois. 7. legei gar hē graphē; Tō de hamartōlō eipen ho
   theos; Hinanti su diēgē ta dikaiōmata mou, kai analambaneis tēn diathēkēn
   mou epi stomatos sou? 8. su de emisēsas paideian kai exebales tous logous
   mou eis ta opisō. ei etheōreis kleptēn, suneterches autō kai meta moichōn
   tēn merida sou etitheis. to stoma sou epleonasen kakian, kai hē glōssa sou
   periepleken doliotēta. 9. tauta epoiēsas, kai esigēsa; hupelabes, anome,
   hoti esomai soi homoios. 10. elenxō se kai parastēsō se kata prosōpon sou.
   11. sunete dē tauta, hoi epilanthanomenoi tou theou, mēpote harpasē hōs
   leōn, kai mē ē ho rhuomenos. 12. thusia aineseōs doxasei me, kai ekei hodos,
   hē deixō autō to sōtērion tou theou.

    XXXVI

   1. Hautē hē hodos, agapētoi, en hē heuromen to sōtērion hēmōn, Iēsoun
   Christon, ton archierea tōn prosphorōn hēmōn, ton prostatēn kai boēthon tēs
   astheneias hēmōn. 2. dia toutou atenizomen eis ta hupsē tōn ouranōn, dia
   toutou enoptrizometha tēn amōmon kai kai hupertatēn opsin autou, dia toutou
   ēneōchthēsan hēmōn hoi ophthalmoi tēs kardias, dia toutou hē asunetos kai
   eskotōmenē dianoia hēmōn anathallei eis to phōs, dia toutou ēthelēsen ho
   despotēs tēs athanatou gnōseōs hēmas geusasthai, hos ōn apaugasma tēs
   megalōsunēs autou, tosoutō meizōn estin angelōn, hosō diaphorōteron onoma
   keklēronomēken. 3. gegraptai gar houtōs; Ho poiōn tous angelous autou
   pneumata kai tous leitourgous autou puros phloga. 4. epi de tō huiō autou
   houtōs eipen ho despotēs. Huios mou ei su, egō sēmeron gegennēka se; aitēsai
   par’ emou, kai dōsō soi ethnē tēn klēronomian sou kai tēn kataschesin sou ta
   perata tēs tēs. 5. kai palin legei pros auton; Kathou ek dexiōn mou, heōs an
   thō tines oun hoi echthroi? hoi phauloi kai antitasomenoi tō thelēmati
   autou.

    XXXVII

   1. Strateusōmetha oun, andres adelphoi, meta pasēs ekteneias en tois amōmois
   prostagmasin autou. 2. katanoēsōmen tous strateuomenous tois hēgoumenois
   hēmōn, pōs eutaktōs, pōs hektikōs, pōs hupotetagmenōs epitelousin ta
   diatassomena. 3. ou pantes eisin eparchoi oude chiliarchoi oude
   hekatontarchai oude pentēkontarchoi oude to kathexeēs, all’ hekastos en tō
   idiō tagmati ta epitassomena hupo tou basileōs kai tōn hēgoumenōn epitelei.
   4. hoi mikroi dicha tōn megalōn; sunkrasis. 5. labōmen to sōma hēmōn; hē
   kephalē dicha tōn podōn ouden estin, houtōs oude hoi podes dicha tēs
   kephalēs; ta de euchrēsta eisin holō tō sōmati; alla panta sunpnei kai
   hupotagē mia chrētai eis to sōzesthai holon to sōma.

    XXXVIII

   1. Chōzesthō oun hēmōn holon to sōma en Christō Iēsou, kai hupotassesthō
   hekastos tō plēsion autou, kathōs etethē en tō charismati autou. 2. ho
   ischuros tēmeleitō ton asthenē, ho de asthenēs entrepesthō ton ischuron; ho
   plousios epichorēgeitō tō ptōchō, ho de ptōchos eucharisteitō tō theō, hoti
   edōken autō di’ hou anaplērōthē autou to husterēma; ho sophos endeiknusthō
   tēn sophian autou mē en logois, all’ en ergois agathois; ho tapeinophronōn
   mē eautō martureitō, all’ eatō huph’ heterou heauton nartureisthai; ho
   hagnos tē sarki mē alazoneuesthō, ginōskōn hoti heteros estin ho epichorēgōn
   autō tēn enkrateian. 3. analogisōmetha oun, adelphoi, ek poias hulēs
   egenēthēmen, poiou taphou kai skotous ho plasas hēmas kai dēmiourgēsas
   eisēpgagen eis ton kosmon, autou, proetoimasas tas euergesias autou, prin
   hēmas gennēthēnai. 4. tauta oun panta ex autou echontes opheilomen kata
   panta eucharistein autō; hō hē doxa eis tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn. amēn.

    XXXIX

   1. Aphrones kai asunetoi kai mōroi kai apaideutoi chleuazousin hēmas kai
   muktērizousin, heautous boulomenoi epairesthai tais dianoiais autōn. 2. ti
   gar dunatai thnētos? ē tis ischus gēgenous? 3. gegraptai gar; Ouk ēn morpē
   pro ophthalmōn mou, all’ ē auran kai phōēn ēkouon; 4. ‘Ti gar? mē katharos
   estai brotos enanti kuriou? ē apo tōn ergōn autou amemptos anēr, ei kata
   paidōn autou ou pisteuei, kata de angelōn autou skolion ti epenoēsen? 5.
   ouranos de ou katharos enōpion autou; ea de, hoi katoikountes oikias
   pēlinas, ex hōn kai autoi ek tou autou pēlou esmen; epaisen autous sētos
   tropon kai apo prōithen heōs hesperas ouk eti eisin; para to mē dunasthai
   autous heautois boēthēsai apōlonto. 6. enephusēsen autois, kai eteleutēsan
   para to mē echein autous sophian. 7. epikalesai de, ei tis soi hupakousetai,
   ē ei tina hagiōn angelōn opsē; kai gar aphrona anairei orgē, peplanēmenon de
   thanatoi zēlos. 8. egō de heōraka aphronas rhizas ballontas, all’ eutheōs
   ebrōthē autōn hē diaita. 9. porrō genointo hoi huioi autōn apo sōtērias;
   kolabristheiēsan epi thuais hēssonōn, kai ouk estai ho exairoumenos; ha gar
   ekeinois hētoimastai, dikaioi edontai, autoi de ek kakōn ouk exairetoi
   esontai.

    XL

   1. Prodēlōn oun hēmin ontōn toutōn, kai enkekuphotes eis ta bathē tēs theias
   gnōseōs, panta taxei poiein opheilomen, hosa ho despotēs epitelein ekeleusen
   kata kairous tetagmenous. 2. tas te prosphoras kai leitourgias
   epiteleisthai, kai ouk eikē ē ataktōs ekeleusen ginesthai, all’ hōrismenois
   kairois kai hōrais. 3. pou te kai dia tinōn epiteleisthai thelei, autos
   hōrisen tē hupertatō autou boulēsei, hin’ hosiōs panta ginomena en eudokēsei
   euprosdekta eiē tō thelēmati autou. 4. hoi oun tois prostetagmenois kairois
   poiountes tas prosphoras autōn euprosdektoi te kai makarioi; tois gar
   nomimois tou despotou akolouthountes ou diamartanousin. 5. tō gar archierei
   idiai leitourgiai dedomenai eisin, kai tois hiereusin idios ho topos
   prostetaktai, kai Leuitais idiai diakoniai epikeintai; ho laikos anthrōpos
   tois laikois prostagmasin dedetai.

    XLI

   1. Hekastos hēmōn, adelphoi en tō idiō tagmati euaristeitō tō theō en
   agathē suneidēsei huparchōn, mē parekbainōn ton hōrismenon tēs leitourgias
   autou kanona, en semnotēti. 2. oupantachou, adelphoi, prospherontai thusiai
   endelechismou ē euchōn ē peri hamartias kai plēmmeleia. all’ ē en
   Hierousalēm monē; kakei de ouk en panti topō prospheretai, all’ emprosthen
   tou naou pros to thusiastērion, mōmoskopēthen to prospheronenon dia tou
   archiereōs kai tōn proeirēmenōn leitourgōn. 3. hoi oun para to kathēkon tēs
   boulēseōs autou poiountes ti thanaton to prostimon echousin. 4. horate,
   adelphoi; hosō pleionos katēxiōthēmen gnōseōs, tosoutō mallon hupokeimetha
   kindunō.

    XLII

   1. Hoi apostoloi hēmin euēngelisthēsan apo tou kuriou Iēsou Christou, Iēsous
   ho Christos apo tou theou exepemphthē. 2. ho Christos oun apo tou theou kai
   hoi apotoloi apo tou Christou; egenonto oun amphotera eutakōs ek thelēmatos
   theou. 3. parangelias oun labontes kai plērophorēthentes dia tēs anastaseōs
   tou kuriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou kai pistōthentes en tō logō tou theou, meta
   plērophorias pneumatos hagiou exēlthon euangelizomenoi, tēn basileian tou
   theou mellein erchesthai. 4. kata chōras oun kai poleis kērussontes
   kathistanon tas aparchas autōn, kokimasantes tō pneumati, eis episkopous kai
   diakonous tōn mellontōn pisteuein. 5. kai touto ou kainōs; ek gar dē pollōn
   chronōn egegrapto peri episkopōn kai diakonōn. houtōs gar pou legei hē
   graphē; Katastēsō tous episkopous autōn en dikaiosunē kai tous diakonous
   autōn en pistei.

    XLIII

   1. Kai ti thaumaston, ei hoi en Christō pisteuthentes para theou ergon
   toiouto katestēsan tous proeirēmenous? hopou kai ho makarios pistos therapōn
   en holō tō oikō Mōusēs ta diatetagmena autō panta esēmeiōsato en tais
   hierais biblois, hō kai epēkolouthēsan hoi loipoi prophētai,
   sunepimarturountes tois hup’ autou nenomothetēmenois. 2. ekeinos gar, zēlou
   epeson´tos peri tēs hierōsunēs kai stasiazousōn tōn phulōn, hopoia autōn
   eiē tō endoxō onomati kekosmēmenē, ekeleusen tous dōdeka phularchous
   prosenenkein autō rhabdous epigegrammenas hekastēs phulēs kat’ onoma; kai
   labōn autas edēsen kai esphragisen tois daktuliois tōn phularchōn, kai
   apetheto autas eis tēn skēnēn tou marturiou epi tēn trapezan tou theou. 3.
   kai kleisas tēn skēnēn esphragisen tas kleidas hōsautōs kai tas rhabdous, 4.
   kai eipen autois; Adres adelphoi, hēs an phulēs hē rhabdos blastēsē, tautēn
   eklelektai ho theos eis to hierateuein kai leitorgein autō. 5. prōias de
   genomenēs sunekalesen panta ton Israēl, tas hexakosias chiliadas tōn andrōn,
   kai epedeixato tois phularchois tas sphragidas, kai ēnoixen tēn skēnēn tou
   marturiou kai proeilen tas rhabdous; kai heurethē hē rhabdos Aarōn ou monon
   beblastēkuia, alla kai krpon echousa. 6. ti dokeite, agapētoi? ou proēdei
   Mōusēs touto mellein esesthai? malista ēdei; all’ hina mē akatastasia
   genētai en tō Israēl, houtōs epoiēsen, eis to doxasthēnai to onoma tou
   alēthinou kai monou theou; hō hē doxa eis tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn. amēn.

    XLIV

   1. Kai hoi apostoloi hēmōn egnōsan dia tou kuriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou, hoti
   eris estai epi tou onomatos tēs episkoēs. 2. dia tautēn oun tēn aitian
   prognōsin eilēphotes teleian katestēsan tous proeirēmenous, kai metaxu
   epinomēn dedōkasin, hopōs, ean koimēthōsin, diadexōntai heteroi
   dedokimasmenoi antres tēn leitourgian autōn. 3. tous oun katastathentas
   hup’ ekeinōn ē metaxu huph’ heterōn ellogimōn andrōn suneudokēsasēs tēs
   ekklēsias pasēs, kai leitourgēsantas amemptōs tō poimniō tou Christou meta
   tapeinophrosunēs, hēsuchōs kai abanausōs, memarturēmenous te pollois
   chronois hupo pantōn, toutous ou dikaiōs nomizomen apoballesthai tēs
   leitourgias. 4. hamartia gar ou mikra hēmin estai, ean tous amemtōs kai
   hosiōs prosenenkontas ta dōra tēs episkopēs apobalōmen. 5. makarioi hoi
   proodoiporēsantes presbuteroi, hoitines enkarpon kai teleian eschon tēn
   analusin; ou gar eulabountai mē tis autous metastēsē apo tou hidrumenou
   autois topou. 6. horōmen gar, hoti enious humeis metēgagete kalōs
   politeuomenous ek tēs amemptōs autois teteimēmenēs leitourgias.

    XLV

   1. Philoneikoi este, adelphoi, kai zēlōtai peri tōn anēkontōn eis sōtērian.
   2. enkekuphate eis tas hieras graphas, tas alētheis, tas dia tou pneumatos
   tou hagiou. 3. epistasthe, hoti ouden adikon oude parapepoiēmenon gegraptai
   en autais. ouch heurēsete dikaious apobeblēmenous apo hosiōn andrōn. 4.
   ediōchthēsan dikaioi, all’ hupo anomōn; ephulakisthēsan, all’ hupo anosiōn;
   elithasthēsan hupo paranomōn; apektanthēsan hupo tōn miaron kai adikon zēlon
   aneilēphotōn. 5. tauta paschontes eukleōs ēnnkan. 6. ti gar epōmen,
   adelphoi? Daniēl hupo tōn phoboumenōn ton theon eblēthē eis lakkon leontōn?
   7. hē Ananias kai Azarias kai Miaēl hupo tōn thrēskeuontōn tēn megaloprepē
   kai endoxon thrēseian tou hupsistou kateirchthēsan eis kaminon puros?
   mēthamōs touto genoito. tinos oun hoi tauta drasantes? hoi stugētoi kai
   pasēs kakias plēreis eis tosouto exērisan thumou, hōte tous en hosia kai
   amōmō prothesei douleuontas tō theō eis aikian peribalein, mē eidotes hoti
   ho hupsistos hupermachos kai hupermachos kai huperaspistēs estin tōn en
   kathara suneidēsei latreuontōn tō panaretō onomati autou; hō hē doxa eis
   tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn. amēn. 8. hoi de hupomenontes en pepoithēsei doxan
   kai timēn eklēronomēsan, epērthēsan te kai engraphoi egenonto apo tou theou
   en tō mnēmosunō autou eis tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn. amēn.

    XLVI

   1. Toioutois oun hupodeigmasin kollēthēnai kai hēmas dei, adelphoi. 2.
   gegraptai gar; Kollasthe tois hagiois, hoti hoi kollōmenoi autois
   hagiasthēsontai. 3. kai palin en heterō tupō legei; Meta andros athōmou
   athōos esē kai meta eklektou eklektos esē, kai meta streblou diastrepseis.
   4. kollēthōmen oun tois athōois kai dikaiois; eisin de houtoi eklektoi tou
   theou. 5. hinanti ereis kai thumoi kai dichosatsiai kai schismata polemos te
   en humin? 6. ē ouchi hena theon echomen kai hena Christon kai hen pneuma tēs
   charitos to echuthen eph’ hēmas? kai mia klēsis en Christō? 7. hinanti
   dielkomen kai diaspōmen ta melē tou Christou kai stasiazomen pros to sōma to
   idion, kai eis tosautēn aponoian erchometha, hōste epilathesthai hēmas, hoti
   melē esmen allēlōn? mnēsthēte tōn logōn tou kuriou Iēsou. 8. eipen gar; Ouai
   tō anthrōpō ekeinō; kalon hēn autō, ei ouk egennēthē, ē hena tōn eklektōn
   mou skandalisai; kreitton ēn autō peritethēnai mulon kai katapontisthēnai
   eis tēn thalassan, ē hena tōn eklektōn mou diastrepsai. 9. to schisma humōn
   pollous diestrepsen, pollous eis athumian ebalen, pollous eis distagmon,
   tous pantas hēmas eis lupēn; kai epimons, humōn estin hē stasis.

    XLVII

   1. Analabete tēn epistolēn tou makariou Paulou tou apostolou. 2. ti prōton
   humin en archē tou euangeliou egrapsen? 3. ep’ alētheias pneumatiōs
   epesteilen humin peri heautou te kai Kēpha te kai Apollō, dia to kai tote
   proskliseis humas pepoiēsthai. 4. all’ hē prosklisis ekeinē hēttona
   hamartian humin prosēnenken; proseklithēte gar apostolois memarturēmenois
   kai andri dedokimasmenō par’ autois. 5. nuni de katanoēsate, tines humas
   diestrepsan kai to semnon tēs periboētou philadephias humōn emeinōsan. 6.
   aispsra, agapētoi, kai lian aispsra, kai anaxia tēs en Christō agōgēs
   akouesthai, tēn bebaiotatēn kai archaian Korinthiōn ekklēsian di’ hen ē duo
   prosōpa stasiazein pros tous presbuterous; 7. kai hautē hē akoē ou monon eis
   hēmas echōrēsen, alla kai eis tous heteroklineis huparchontas aph’ hēmōn,
   hōste kai blasphēmias epipheresthai tō onomati kuriou dia tēn humeteran
   aphrosunēn, heautois de kindunon epexergazesthai.

    XLVIII

   1. Exarōmen oun en tachei kai prospesōmen tō despotē kai klausōmen
   hiketeuontes auton, hopōs hileōs genomenos epikatallagē hēmin kai epi tēn
   semnēn tēs philadelphias hēmōn hagnēn agōgēn apokatastēsē hēmas. 2. pulē gar
   dikaiosunēs aneōnguia eis zōēn hautē, kathōs gegraptai; Anoixate moi pulas
   dikaiosunēs, hina eiselthōn en autais exomologēsōmai tō kuriō. 3. hautē hē
   pulē tou kuriou; dikaioi eiseleusontai en autē. 4. pollōn oun pulōn aneōgiōn
   hē en dikaiosunē hautē estin hē en Christō, en hē makarioi pantes hoi
   eiselthontes kai kateuthunontes tēn poreian autōn en hosiotēti kai
   dikaiosunē, atarachōs panta epiteountes. 5. ētō sophos en diakrisei logōn,
   ētō hagnos en ergois. 6. tosoutō gar mallon tapeinophronein opheilei, hosō
   dokei mallon meizōn einai, kai zētein to koinōpheles pasin, kai mē to
   heautou.

    XLIX

   1. Ho echōn agapēn en Christō poiēsatō ta tou Christou parangelmata. 2. ton
   desmon tēs agapēs tou theou tis dunatia exēgēsasthai? 3. to megaleion tēs
   kallonēs autou tis arketos exeipein? 4. to hupsos, eis ho anage hē agapē,
   anekdiēgēton estin. 5. agapē kolla hēmas tō theō, agapē kalupte plēthos
   hamartiōn, agapē panta anechetai, panta makrothumei; ouden banauson en
   agapē, ouden huperēphanon; agapē schisma ouk echei, agapē ou stasiazei,
   agapē panta poiei en homonoia; en tē agapē eteleiōthēsan pantes hoi eklektoi
   tou theou, dicha agapēs ouden euareston estin tō theō. 6. en agapē
   proselabeto hēmas ho despotēs; dia tēn agapēn, hēn eschen pros hēmas, to
   haima autou edōken huper hēmōn Iēsous Christos ho kurios hēmōn en thelēmati
   theou, kai tēn sarka huper tēs sarkos hēmōn kai tēn psuchēn huper tōn
   psuchōn hēmōn.

    L

   1. Horate agapētoi, pōs mega kai thaumaston estin hē agapē, kai tēs
   teleiotētos autēs ouk estin exēgēsis. 2. tis hikanos en autē heurethēnai, ei
   mē ohus an kataxiōsē ho theos? deōmetha oun kai aitōmetha dicha proskliseōs
   anthrōpinēs, amōmoi. 3. hai geneai´pasai apo Adam heōs tēsde tēs hēmeras
   parēlthon, all’ hoi en agapē teleiōthentes kata tēn tou theou charin
   echousin chōron eusebōn, ohi phanerōthēsontai en tē episkopē tēs basileias
   tou Christou. 4. gegraptai gar; Eiselthete eis ta tameia mikron hoon hoson,
   heōs hou parelthē hē orgē kai ho thumos mou, kai mnēsthēsomai hēmeras
   agathēs, kai anastēsō humas ek tōn thēkōn humōn. 5. makarioi esmen,
   agapētoi, ei ta protagmata tou theou epoioumen en homonoia agapēs, eis to
   aphethēnai hēmin di’ agapēs tas hamartias. 6. gegraptai gar; Makarioi, hōn
   aphethēsan hai anomiai kai hōn epekaluphthēsan hai hamatian, oude estin en
   tō stomati autou dolos; 7. houtos ho makarismos egeneto epi tous
   eklelegmenous hupo tou theou dia Iēsou Christou tou kuriou hēmōn, hō hē doxa
   eis tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn. amēn.

    LI

   1. Hosa oun parepesamen kai epoiēsamen dia tinas paremptōseis tou
   antikeimenou, axiōsōmen aphethēnai hēmin. kai ekeinoi de, hoitines archēgoi
   staseōs kai dichostasias egenēthēsan, opheiousin to koinon tēs elpidos
   skopein. 2. hoi gar meta phobou kai agapēs politeuomenoi heautous thelousin
   mallon aikiais peripiptein pherousin ē tēs parededomenēs hēmin kalōs kai
   dikaiōs homophōnias, 3. kalon gar anthrōpō exomologeisthai peri tōn
   paraptōmatōn ē sklērunai tēn kardian autou, kathōs esklērunthē hē kardia tōn
   stasiazontōn pros ton theraponta tou theou Mōusēn, hōn to krima prodēlon
   egenēthē, 4. katebēsan gar eis hadou zōntes, kai thanatos poimanei autous.
   5. Pharaō kai hē stratia autou kai pantes hoi hēgoumenoi Aiguptou, ta te
   harmata kai hoi anabatai autōn ou di’ allēn tina aitian ebuthēisthēsan eis
   thalassan eruthran kai apōlonto, alla dia to sklērunthēnai autōn tas
   asunetous kardias meta to genesthai ta sēmeia kai ta terata en gē Aiguptou
   dia tou therapontos tou theou Mōuseōs.

    LII

   1. Aprosdeēs, adelphoi, ho despotēs huparchei tōn hapantōn; ouden oudenos
   chrēzei ei mē to exomologeisthai autō. 2. phēsin gar ho eklektos Daueid;
   Exomologēsomai tō kuriō, kai aresei autō huper mochon neon kerata ekpheronta
   kai hoplas; idetōsan ptōchoi kai euphranthētōsan. 3. kai palin legei; Thuson
   tō theō. thusian aineseōs kai apodos tō hupsistō tas euchas sou; kai
   epikalesai me en hēmera thlipseōs sou, kai exeloumai se, kai doxaseis me. 4.
   thusia gar tō theō pneuma suntetrimmenon.

    XLIII

   1. Epistasthe gar kai kalōs epistathe tas hieras graphas, agapētoi, kai
   enkekuphate eis ta logia tou theou. pros anamnēsin oun tauta graphomen. 2.
   Mōuseōs gar anabantos eis to oros kai poiēsantos tessarakonta hēmeras kai
   tessarakonta nuktas en nēsteia kai tapeinōsei, eipen pros auton ho theos;
   Katabēthi to tachos enteuthen, hoti ēnomēsen ho laos sou, ohus exēgaes ek
   gēs Aiguptou; parebēsan tachu ek tēs hodou hēs enteilō autois, epoiēsan
   heautois chōneumata. 3. kai eipen kurios pros auton; Heōraka ton laon
   touton, kai idou estin sklērotrachēlos; eason me exolethreusai autous, kai
   exaleipsō to onoma autōn hupokatōthen tou ouranou, kai poiēsō se eis ethnos
   mega kai thaumaston kai polu mallon ē touto. 4. kai eipen Mōusēs; Mēdamōs,
   kurie; aphes tēn hamartian tō laō toutō ē kame exaleipson ek biblou zōtōn.
   5. ō megalēs agapēs, ō teleiotētos anuperblētou. parrēsiazetai therapōn pros
   kurion, aiteitai aphesin tō plēthei, ē kai heauton exaleiphthēnai met’ autōn
   axioi.

    LIV

   1. Tis oun en humin gennaios, tis eusplanchnos, tis peplērophorēmenos
   agapēs? 2. eipatō; Ei di’ eme stasis kai eris kai schismata, ekchōrō,
   apeimi, hou ean boulēsthe, kai poiō ta poimnion tou Christou eirēneuetō meta
   tōn kathestamenōn presbuterōn. 3. touto ho poiēsas heautō mega kleos en
   Christō peripoiēsetai, kai pas topos dexetai auton, tou gar kuriou hē gē kai
   to plērōma autēs. 4. tauta hoi politeuomenoi tēn ametamelēton politeian tou
   theou epoiēsan kai poiēsousin.

    LV

   1. Hina de kai hupodeigmata ethnōn enenkōmen. polloi basileis kai
   hēgoumenoi, loimikou tinos heautous eis thanaton, hina rhusōntai dia tou
   heautōn haimatos tous politas; polloi exechōrēsan idiōn poleōn, hina mē
   stasiazōsin epi pleion. 2. epistametha pollous en hēmin paradedōkotas
   heautous eis desma, hopōs heterous lutrōsontai; polloi heautous paredōkan
   eis douleian, kai labontes tas timas autōn heterous epsōmisan. 3. pollai
   gunaikes endunamōtheisai dia tēs charitos tou theou epetelesanto polla
   andreia. 4. Ioudith hē makaria, en sunkleismō ousēs tēs poleōs, ētēsato para
   tōn presbuterōn eathēnai autēn exelthein eis tē parembolēn tōn allophulōn.
   5. paradousa oun heautēn tō kindunō exēlthen di’ agapēn tēs patridos kai tou
   laou tou ontos en sunkeismō, kai paredōken kurios Olophernēn en cheiri
   thēleias. 6. ouch hētton kai hē teleia kata pistin Esthēr kindunō heautēn
   parebalen, hina to ethnos tou Israēl mellon apolesthai rhusētai; dia gar tēs
   nēsteias kai tēs tapeinōseōs autēs ēxiōsen ton tapeinon tēs psuchēs autēs
   erusato ton laon hōn charin ekinduneusen.

    LVI

   1. Kai hēmeis oun entuchōmen peri tōn en tini paraptōmati huparchontōn,
   hopōs dothē autois epieikeia kai tapeinophrosunē eis to eixai autous mē
   hēmin alla tō thelēmati tou theou; houtōs gar estai autois enkarpos kai
   teleia hē pros ton theon kai tous hagious met’ oiktirmōn mneia. 2.
   analabōmen paideian, eph’ hē oudeis aganaktein, agapētoi. hē nouthetēsis,
   hēn poioumetha eis allēlous, kalē estin kai huperagan ōphelimos; kolla gar
   hēmas tō thelēmati tou theou. 3. houtōs gar phēsin ho hagios logos; Paideuōn
   epaideusen me ho kurios, kai tō thanatō ou paredōken me; 4. hon gar agapa
   kurios paideuei, mastigoi de panta huion hon paradechetai. 5. Paideusei me
   gar, phēsin, dikaios en eleei kai elenxei me, elaion de hamartōlōn mē
   lipanatō tēn kephalēn mou. 6. kai palin legei; Makarios anthrōpos, hon
   ēlenxen ho kurios; nouthetēma de pantokratoros mē apanainou; autos gar
   algein poiei, kai palin apokathitēsin; 7. epaisen, kai hai cheires autou
   iasanto. 8. hexakis ex anankōn exeleitai se, en de tō hebdomō ouch hapsetai
   sou kakon. 9. en limō rhusetai se ek thanatou, en polemō de ek cheiros
   sidērou lusei se; 10. kai apo mastigos glōssēs se krupsei, kai ou
   phobēthēsē kakōn eperchomenōn. 11. adikōn kai anomōn katagelasē, apo de
   thēriōn agriōn ou mē phobēthēs; 12. thēres gar de thēriōn agrioi
   eirēneusousin soi. 13. eita gnōsē, oti eirēneusei sou ho oikos, hē de diaita
   tēs skēnēs sou ou mē hamartē. 14. gnōsē de, hoti polu to sperma sou, ta de
   tekna sou hōsper to pambotanon tou agrou. 15. eleusē de en taphō hōsper
   sitos hōrimos kata kairon therizomenos, ē hōsper thēmōnia halōnos kath’
   hōran sunkomistheisa. 16. blepete, agapētoi, posos huperaspismos estin tois
   paideuomenois hupo tou depotou; patēr gar agathos ōn paideuei eis to
   eleēthēnai hēmas dia tēs hosias paideias autou.

    LVII

   1. Humeis oun hoi tēn katabolēn tēs staseōs poiēsantes hupotagēte tois
   presbuterois kai paideuthēte eis metanoian, kampsantes ta gonata tēs kardias
   humōn. 2. mathete hupotassesthai, apothemenoi tēn alazona kai huperēphanon
   tēs glōssēs humōn authadeian; ameinon gar estin humin, en tō poimniō tou
   Christou mikrous kai ellogimous heurethēnai, ē kath’ huperochēn dokountas
   ekriphēnai ek tēs elpidos autou. 3. houtōs gar legei hē panaretos sophia;
   Idou, proēsomai humin emēs pnoēs rhēsin, didaxō de humas ton emon logon. 4.
   epeidē ekaloun kai ouch hupēkousate, kai exeteinon logous kai ou
   proseichete, alla akuous epoieite tas emas boulas, tois de emois elenchois
   ēpeithēsate; toigaroun kagō tē humetera apōlea epigelasomai, katacharoumai
   de hēnika an erchētai humin olethros kai hōs an aphikētai humin aphnō
   thorubos, hē de katastrophē homoia kataigidi parē, ē hotan erchētai humin
   thlipsis kai poliorkia. 5. estai gar hotan epikalesēsthe me, egō de ouk
   eisakousomai humōn; zētēsousin me kakoi, kai ouch heurēsousin. emisēsan gar
   sophian, ton de phobon tou kuriou ou proeilanto, oude ēthelon emais
   prosechein boulais, emuktērizon de emous elenchous. 6. toigaroun edountai
   tēs heautōn hodou tous karpous, kai tēs heautōn asebeias plaēsthēsontai; 7.
   anth’ hōn gar ēdidoun nēpious phoneuthēsontai, kai exetasmos asebeis olei;
   ho de emou akouōn kataskēnōsei ep’ elpidi pepoithōs kai hēsuchasei aphobōs
   apo pantos kakou.

    LVIII

   1. Hupakousōmen oun tō panagiō kai endoxō onomati autou phugontes tas
   proeirēmenas dia tēs sophias tois apeithousin apeilas, hina kataskēnōsōmen
   pepoithotes epi to hosiōtaton tēs megalōsunēs autou onoma. 2. dexasthe tēn
   sumboulēn hēmōn, kai estai ametamelēta humin. zē gar ho theos kai zē ho
   kurios Iēsous Christos kai to pneuma to hagion, hē te pistis kai hē elpis
   tōn eklektōn, hoti ho poiēsas en tapeinophrosunē met’ ektenous epieikeias
   ametamelētōs ta hupo tou theou dedomena dikaiōmata kai prostagmata, houtos
   entetagmenos kai ellogimos estai eis ton arithmon tōn sōzomenōn dia Iēsou
   Christou, di’ hou estin autō hē doxa eis tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn. amēn.

    LIX

   1. Ean de tines apeithēsōsin tois hup’ autou di’ hēmōn eirēmenois,
   ginōsetōsan hoti paraptōsei kai kindunō ou mikrō heautous endēsousin. 2.
   hēmeis de athōoi esometha apo tautēs tēs hamartias kai aitēsometha ektenē
   tēn deēsin kai hikesian poioumenoi, hopōs ton arithmon ton katērithmēmenon
   tōn eklektōn autou en holō tō kosmō diaphulaxē athrauston ho dēmiourgos tōn
   hapantōn dia tou ēgapēmenou paidos autou Iēsou Christou, di’ hou ekalesen
   hēmas apo skotous eis phōs, apo agnōsias eis epignōsin doxēs onomatos autou,
   3. . . . [1] elpizein epi to archegonon pasēs ktiseōs onoma sou, anoixas
   tous ophthalmous tēs kardias hēmōn eis to ginōskein se ton monon hupsiston
   en hupsistoois, hagion en hagiois anapauomenon. ton tapeinounta hubrin
   hueperēphanōn, ton dialuonta logismous ethnōn, ton poiounta tapeinous eis
   hupsos kai tous hupsēous tapeinounta, ton ploutizonta kai ptōchizonta, ton
   apokteinonta kai zēn poiounta, monon heuretēn pneumatōn kai theon pasēs
   sarkos; ton epibleponta en tois abussois, ton epoptēn anthrōpinōn ergōn, ton
   tōn kinduneuontōn boēthon, ton tōn apēlpismenōn sōtēra, ton pantos pneumatos
   ktistēn kai episkopon; ton plēthunonta ethnē epi gēs kai ek pantōn
   eklexamenon tous agapōntas se dia Iēsou Christou tou ēgapēmenou paidos sou,
   di’ hou hēmas epaideusas, hēgiasas, etimēsas; 4. axioumen se, despota,
   boēthon genesthai kai antilēptora hēmōn. tous en thlipsei hēmōn sōson, tous
   tapeinous eleēson, tous peptōkotas egeiron, tois deomenois epiphanēthi, tous
   astheneis iasai, tous planōmenous tou laou sou epistrepson; chortason tous
   peinōntas, lutrōsai tous desmious hēmōn, exanastēson tous asthenountas,
   parakaleson tous oligopsuchountas; gnōtōsan se hapanta ta ethnē, hoti su ei
   ho theos monos kai Iēsous Christos ho pais sou kai hēmeis laos sou kai
   probata tēs nomēs sou.

    LX

   1. Su gar tēn aenaon tou kosmou sustasin dia tōn energoumenōn
   ephaneropoiēsas; su, kurie, tēn oikoumenēn ektisas, ho pistos en pasais tais
   geneais, dikaios en tois krimasin, thaumastos en ischui kai sunetos en tō ta
   genomena hedrasai, ho agathos en tois horōmenois kai chrēstos en tois
   pepoithosin epi se, eleēmon kai oiktirmon, aphes hēmin tas anomias hēmōn kai
   plēmmeleias. 2. mē logisē pasan hamartian doulōn sou kai paidiskōn, alla
   katharison hēmas ton katharismon tēs sēs alētheias, kai kateuthunon ta
   diabēmata hēmōn en hosiotēti kardias proeuesthai kai poiein ta kala kai
   euaresta enōpion sou kai enōpion tōn archontōn hēmōn. 3. nai, despota,
   epiphanon to prosōpon sou eph’ hēmas eis agatha en eirēnē, eis to
   skepasthēnai hēmas tē cheiri sou tē krataia kai rhusthēnai apo pasēs
   hamartias tō brachioni sou tō hupsēlō, kai rhusai hēmas apo tōn misountōn
   hēmas adikōs. 4. dos homonoian kai eirēnēn hēmin te kai pasin tois
   katoikousin tēn gēn, kathōs edōkas tois patrasin hēmōn, epikaloumenōn se
   autōn hosiōs en pistei kai alētheia, hupēkoous ginomenous tō pantokratori
   kai endoxō onomati sou, tois te archousin kai hēgoumenois hēmōn epi tēs gēs.

    LXI

   1. Su, despota, edōkas tēn exousian tēs basileias autois dia tou
   megaloprepous kai anekdiēgētou kratous sou, eis to ginōskontas hēmas tēn
   hupo sou autois dedomenēn doxan kai timēn hupotassesthai autois, mēden
   enantioumenous tō thelēmati sou; hois dos, kurie, hugieian, eirēnēn,
   homonoian, eustatheian, eis to diepein autous tēn hupo sou dedomenēn autois
   hēgemonian aproskopōs. 2. su gar, despota eouranie, basileu tōn aiōnōn,
   didōs tois huiois tōn anthrōpōn doxan kai timēn kai exousian tōn epi tēs gēs
   huparchontōn; su, kurie, dieuthunon tēn boulēn autōn kata to kalon kai
   euareston enōpion sou, hopōs diepontes en eirēnē kai prautēti eusebōs tēn
   hupo sou autois dedomenēn exousian hileō sou tunchanōsin. 3. ho monos
   dunatos poiēsai tauta kai perissotera agatha meth’ hēmōn, soi
   exomologoumetha dia tou arsiereōs kai prostatou tōn psuchōn Iēsou Christou,
   di’ hou soi hē doxa kai hē mealōsunē kai nun kai eis genean geneōn kai eis
   tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn. amēn.

    LXII

   1. Peri men tōn anēkontōn tē thrēskeia hēmōn kai tōn ōphelimōtatōn eis
   enareton bion tois thelousin eusebōs kai dikaiōs dieuthunein, hikanōs
   epesteilamen humin, andres adelphoi. 2. peri gar pisteōs kai metamoias kai
   gnēsias agapēs kai enkrateias kai sōphrosunēs kai hupomoēs panta topon
   epsēlaphēsunē kai alētheia kai makrothumia tō pantokratori theō hosiōs
   euarestein, homonoountas amnēsikakōs en agapē kai eirēnē meta ektenous
   epieikeias, kathōs kai hoi prodedēlōmenoi pateres hēmōn euērestēsan
   tapeinophronountes ta pros ton patera kai ktistēn theon; kai pantas
   anthrōpous. 3. kai tauta tosoutō hēdion hupemnēsamen, epeidē saphōs ēdeimen
   graphein hēmas andrasin pistois kai ellogimōtatois kai enkekuphosin eis ta
   logia tēs paideias tou theou.

    LXIII

   1. Themiton oun estin tois toioutois kai tosoutois hupodiegmasin
   proelthontas hupotheinai ton trachēlon kai ton tēs hupakoēs topon
   anaplērōsai, hopōs hēsuchasantes tēs mataias staseōs epi ton prokeimenon
   hēmin en alētheia skopon dicha pantos mōmou katantēsōmen. 2. charan gar kai
   agalliasin hēmin parexete, ean hupēooi genomenoi tois huph’ hēmōn
   gegrammenois dia tou hagiou pneumatos ekkopsēte tēn athemiton tou zēlous
   humōn orgēn kata tēn enteuxin, hēn epoiēsametha peri eirēnēs kai homonoias
   en tēde tē epistolē. 3. epempssamen de andras pistous kai sōphronas apo
   neotētos anastraphentas heōs gērou amemptōs en hēmin, hoitines kai martthres
   esontai metaxu humōn kai hēmōn. 4. touto de epoiēsamen, hina eidēte, hoti
   pasa hēmin phrontis kai gegonen kai estin eis to e tachei humas eirēneusai.

    LXIV

   1. Loipon ho pantepoptēs theos kai despotēs tōn pneumatōn kai kurios pasēs
   sarkos, ho eklexamenos ton kurion Iēsoun Christon kai hēmas di’ autou eis
   laon perousion, dōē pasē psuchē epikeklēmenē to megaloprepes kai hagion
   onoma autou pistin, phobon, eirēnēn, hupomonēn kai makrothumian, enkrateian
   hagneian, sōphrosunēn, eis euarestēsin tō onomati autou dia tou archiereōs
   kai prostatou hēmōn Iēsou Christou, di’ hou autō doxa kai megalōsunē, kratos
   kai timē, kai nun kai eis pantas tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn. amēn.

    LXV

   1. Tous de apestalmenous aph’ hēmōn Klaudion Ephēbon kai Oualerion Bitōna
   sun kai Phortounatō en eirēnē meta charas en tachei anapempsate pros hēmas,
   hopōs thatton tēn euktaian kai epipothētēn hēmin eirēnēn kai homonoian
   apangelōsin, eis to tachion kai hēmas charēnai peri tēs eustatheias humōn.

   2. Hē charis tou kuriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou meth’ humōn kai meta pantōn
   pantachē tōn keklēmenōn hupo tou theou di’ autou, di’ hou autō doxa, timē,
   kratos kai megalōsunē, thronos aiōnios, apo tōn aiōnōn eis tous aiōnas tōn
   aiōnōn. amēn.

   Epistolē tōn ῾Rōmaiōn pros tous Korinthious.
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   [1] There appears to be a lacuna in the Greek:  Lightfoot supplies Dos
   hēmin, kurie.
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  KLĒMENTOS
  PROS KORINThIOUS B

    I

   1. Adelphoi, houtōs dei hēmas phronein peri Iēsou Christou, hōs peri theou,
   hōs peri kritou zōntōn kai nekrōn; kai ou dei hēmas mikra phronein peri tēs
   sōtērias hēmōn. 2. en tō gar phronein hēmas mikra peri autou, mikra kai
   elpizomen labein; kai hoi akouontes hōs peri mikrōn hamartanousin, kai
   hēmeis hamartanomen ouk eidotes, pothen eklēthēmen kai hupo tinos kai ei hon
   topon, kai hosa hupemeinen Iēsous Christos pathein heneka hēmōn. 3. tina oun
   hēmeis autō dōsomen antimisthian, ē tina karpon axion hou hēmin autos
   edōken? posa de autō opheilomen hosia? 4. to phōs gar hēmin echarisato, hōs
   patēr huious hēmas prosēgor´reusen, apollumenous hēmas esōsen. 5. poion oun
   ainon autō dōsomen ē misthon antimisthias hōn elabomen? 6. pēroi ontes tē
   dianoia, proskunountes lithous kai xula kai chruson kai arguron kai chalkon,
   erga anthrōpōn; kai ho bios hēmōn holos allo ouden ēn ei mē thanatos.
   amaurōsin oun perikeimenoi kai toiautēs achluos gemontes en tē horasei,
   aneblepsamen apothemenoi ekeino ho perikeimetha nephos tē autou thelēsei. 7.
   ēleēsen gar hēmas kai splanchnistheis esōsen, theasamenos en hēmin pollēn
   planēn kai apōleian, kai mēdemian elpida echontas sōtērias, ei mē tēn par’
   autou. 8. ekalesen gar hēmas ouk ontas kai ēthelēsen ek mē ontos einai
   hēmas.

    II

   1. Euphranthēti, steira hē ou tiktousa, rhēxon kai boēson, hē ouk ōdinousa,
   hoti polla ta tekna tēs erēmou mallon ē tēs echousēs ton andra. ho eipen;
   Euphranthēti, steira hē ou tiktousa, hēmas eipen; steira gar ēn hē ekklēsia
   hēmōn pro tou dothēnai autē tekna. 2. ho de eipen; Boēson, hē ouk ōdinousa,
   touto legei; tas proseuchas hēmōn haplōs anapherein pros ton theon, mē hōs
   hai ōdinousai enkakōmen, 3. ho de eipen; Hoti polla ta tekna tēs erēmou
   mallon ē tēs echousēs ton andra; epei erēmos edokei einai apo tou theou ho
   laos hēmōn, nuni de pisteusantes pleiones egenometha tōn dokountōn echein
   theon. 4. kai hetera de graphē legei, hoti ouk ēlthon kalesai dikaious, alla
   hamartōlous; 5. touto legei, hoti dei tous apollumenous sōzein. 6. ekeino
   gar estin mega kai thaumaston ou ta hestōta stērizein, alla ta piptonta. 7.
   houtōs kai ho Christos ēthelēsen sōsai ta apollumena, kai esōsen pollous
   elthōn kai kalesas hēmas ēdē apollumenous.

    III

   1. Tosouton oun eleos poiēsantos autou eis hēmas, prōton men, hoti hēmeis
   hoi zōntes tois nekrois theois ou thuomen kai ou proskunoumen autois, alla
   egnōmen di’ autou ton patera tēs alētheias; tis hē gnōsis hē pros autou ton
   patera tēs alētheias; tis hē gnōsis hē pros auton, ē to mē arneisthai di’
   hou egnōmen auton? 2. legei de kai autos; Ton homologēsanta me enōpion tōn
   anthrōpōn, homologēsō auton enōpion tou patros mou. 3. houtos oun estin ho
   misthos hēmōn, ean oun homologēsōmen di’ hou esōmen. 4. en tini de auton
   homologoumen? en tō poiein ha legei kai mē parakouein autou tōn entolōn, kai
   mē monon cheilesin auton timan, alla ex holēs kardias kai ex holēs tēs
   dianoias. 5. legei de kai en tō Hēsaia; Ho laos houtos tois cheilesin me
   tima, hē de karia autōn porrō apestin ap’ emou.

    IV

   1. Mē monon oun auton kalōmen kurion; ou gar touto sōsei hēmas. 2. legei
   gar; Ou pas ho legōn moi; Kurie, kurie, sōthēsetai, all’ ho poiōn tēn
   kikaiosunēn. 3. hōste oun, adelphoi, en tois ergois auton homologōmen, en
   tō agapan eautous, en tō mē moichasthai mēde katalalein allēlōn mēde zēloun,
   all’ enkrateis einai, eleēmonas, agathous; kai sumpaschein allēlois
   opheilomen, kai mē philargurein. en toutois tois ergois homologōmen auton
   kai mē en tois enantiois; 4. kai ou dei hēmas phobeisthai tous anthrōpous
   mallon, alla ton theon. 5. dia touto, tauta humōn prassontōn, eipen ho
   kurios; Ean ēte met’ emou sunēgmenoi en tō kolpō mou kai mē poiēte tas
   entolas mou, apobalō humas kai erō humin; Hupagete ap’ emou, ouk oida humas,
   pothen este, ergatai anomias.

    V

   1. Hothen, adelphoi, kataleipsantes tēn paroikian tou kosmou toutou
   poiēsōmen to thelēma tou kalesantos hēmas, kai mē phobēthōmen exelthein ek
   tou kosmou toutou. 2. legei gar ho kurios Esesthe hōs arnia en mesō lukōn.
   3. apokritheis de ho Petros autō legei; Ean oun diasparaxōsin hoi lukoi ta
   arnia? 4. eipen ho Iēsous tō Petrō; Mē phobeithōsan ta arnia tous lukous
   meta to apothanein auta; kai humeis mē phobeisthe tous apoktennontas humas
   kai mēden humin dunamenous poiein, alla phobeisthe ton meta to apothanein
   humas echonta exousian psuchēs kai sōmatos tou balein eis geennan puros. 5.
   kai ginōskete, adelphoi, hoti hē epidēmia hē en tō kosmō toutō tēs sarkos
   tautēs mikra estin kai oligochronios, hē de eapngelia tou Christou megalē
   kai thaumastē estin, kai anapausis tēs mellousēs basileias kai zōēs aiōniou.
   6. ti oun estin poiēsantas epituchein autōn, ei mē to hosiōs kai dikaiōs
   anastrephesthai kai ta kosmika tauta hōs allotria hēgeisthai kai mē
   epithumein autōn? 7. en gar tō epithumein hēmas ktēsasthai tauta apopiptomen
   tēs hodou tēs dikaias.

    VI

   1. Legei de ho kurios; Oudeis oiketēs dunatai dusi kuriois douleuein. ean
   hēmeis thelōmen kai theō douleuein kai mamōna, asumphoron hēmin estin. 2. ti
   gar to ophelos, ean tis ton kosmon holon kerdēsē, tēn de psuchēn zēmiōthē?
   3. estin de houtos ho aiōn kai ho mellōn duo echthroi. 4. houtos legei
   moicheian kai phthoran kai philargurian kai apatēn, ekeinos de toutois
   apotassetai. 5. ou dunametha oun tōn duo philoi einai; dei de hēmas toutō
   apotaxamenous ekeinō chrasthai. 6. oiometha, hoti beltion estin ta enthade
   misēsai, hoti mikra kai oligochronia kai phtharta, ekeina de agapēsai, ta
   agatha ta aphtharta. 7. poiountes gar to thelēma tou Christou heurēsomen
   anapausin; ei de mēge, ouden hēmas rhusetai ek tēs aiōniou kolaseōs,ean
   parakousōmen tōn entolōn autou. 8. legei de kai hē graphē en tō Iezekiēl,
   hoti ean anastē Nōe kai Iōb kai Daniēl, ou rhusontai ta tekna autōn en tē
   aichmalōsia. 9. ei de kai hoi toioutoi dikaioi ou dunantai tais heautōn
   dikaiosunais rhusasthai ta tekna autōn, hēmeis, ean mē tērēsōmen to baptisma
   hagnon kai amianton, poia pepoithēsei eiseleusometha eis to basileion tou
   theou? ē tis hēmōn paraklētos estai, ean mē heurethōmen erga echontes hosia
   kai dikaia?

    VII

   1. Hōste oun, adelphoi mou, agōisōmetha eidotes, hoti en chersin ho agōn kai
   hoti eis tous phthartous agōnas katapleousin polloi, all’ ou pantes
   stephanountai, ei mē hoi polla kopiasantes kai kalōs agōnisamenoi. 2. hēmeis
   oun agōnisōmetha, hina panates stephanōthōmen. 3. hōste theōmen tēn hodon
   tēn eutheian, agōna ton aphtharton, kai polloi eis stephanōthōmen; kai ei
   mē dunametha pantes stephanōthēnai, kan engus tou stephan´nou genōmetha. 4.
   eidenai hēmas dei, hoti ho ton phtharton agōna agōnizomenos, ean heurethē
   phtheirōn, mastigōtheis airetai kai exō balletai tou stadiou. 5. ti dokeite?
   ho ton tēs aphtharsias agōna phtheiras ti patheitai? 6. tōn gar mē
   tērēsantōn, phēsin, tēn sphragida ho skōlēx autōn ou teleutēsei kai to pur
   autōn ou sbesthēsetai, kai esontai eis horasin pasē sarki.

    VIII

   1. Hōs oun esmen epi gēs, metanoēsōmen. 2. pēlos gar esmen eis tēn cheira
   tou technitou; hon tropon gar ho kerameus, ean poiē skeuos kai en tais
   chersin autou diastraphē ē suntribē, palin auto anaplassei, ean de
   prophthasē eis tēn kaminon tou puros auto balein, ouketi boēthēsei autō;
   houtōs kai hēmeis, heōs esmen en toutō tō kosmō, en tē sarki ha epraxamen
   ponēra metanoēsōmen ex holēs tēs kardias, hina sōthōmen hupo tou kuriou,
   heōs echomen kairon metanoias. 3. meta gar to exelthein hēmas ek tou kosmou
   ouketi dunametha ekei exomologēsasthai ē metamoein eti. 4. hōste, adelphoi,
   poiēsantes kai tas entolas tou kuriou phulaxantes lēpsometha zōēn aiōnion.
   5. legei gar ho kurios en tō euangeliō; Ei to mikron ouk etērēsate, to mega
   tis humin dōsei? legō gar humin, hoti ho pistos en elachistō kai en pollō
   pistos estin. 6. ara oun touto legei; tērēsate tēn sarka hagnēn kai tēn
   sphragida aspilon, hina tēn aiōnion zōēn apolabōmen.

    IX

   1. Kai mē legetō tis humōn, hoti hautē hē sarx ou krinetai oude anitatai. 2.
   gnōte; en tini esōthēte, en tini anelepsate, ei mē en tē sarki tautē ontes?
   3. dei oun hēmas hōs naon theou phulassein tēn saprka; 4. hon tropon gar en
   tē sarki eklēthēte, kai en tē sarki eleusesthe. 5. ei Christos, ho kurios ho
   sōsas hēmas, ōn men to prōton pneuma, egeneto sarx kai houtōs hēmas
   ekalesen; houtōs kai hēmeis e tautē tē sarki apolēpsometha ton misthon. 6.
   agapōmen oun allēlous, hopōs elthōmen´pantes eis tēn basileian tou theou. 7.
   hōs echomen kairon tou iathēnai, epidōmen heautous tō therapeuonti theō,
   antimisthian autō didontes. 8. poian? to metanoēsai ex eilikrinous kardias.
   9. prognōstēs gar estin tōn pantōn kai eidōs hēmōn ta en kardia. 10. dōmen
   oun autō ainon, mē apo stomatos monon, alla kai apo kardias, hina hēmas
   prosdexētai hōs huious. 11. kai gar eipen ho kurios; Adelphoi mou houtoi
   eisin hoi poiountes to thelēma tou patros mou.

    X

   1. Hōste, adelphoi mou, poiēsōmen to thelēma tou patros tou kalesantos
   hēmas, hina zēsōmen, kai diōxōmen mallon tēn aretēn, tēn de kakian
   kataleipsōmen hōs proodoiporon tōn hamartiōn hēmōn, kai phugōmen tēn
   asebeian, mē hēmas katalabē kaka. 2. ean gar spoudasōmen agathopoiein,
   diōxetai hēmas eirēnē. 3. dia tautēn gar tēn aitian ouk estin heurein
   anthrōpon, hoitines paragousi phobous anthrōpinous, proērēmenoi mallon tēn
   enthade apolausin ē tēn mellousan epangelian. 4. agnoousin gar hēlikēn echei
   basanon hē enthade apolausis, kai hoian truphēn echei hē mellousa epangelia.
   5. kai ei men autoi monoi tauta eprasson, anekton ēn; nun de epimenousin
   kakodidaskalountes tas anaitious psuchas, ouk eidotes, hoti dissēn hexousin
   tēn krisin, autoi te kai hoi akouontes autōn.

    XI

   1. Hēmeis oun en kathara kardia douleusōmen tō theō, kai esometha dikaioi;
   ean de mē douleusōmen dia to mē pisteuein hēmas tē epangelia tou theou,
   talaipōroi esometha. 2. legei gar kai ho prophētikos logos; Talaipōroi eisin
   hoi dipsuchoi, hoi distazontes tē kardia, hoi legontes; Tauta palai
   ēkousamen kai epi tōn paterōn hēmōn, hēmeis de hēmeran ex hēmeras
   prosdechomenoi ouden toutōn heōrakamen. 3. anoētoi, sumbalete heautous xulō;
   labete ampelon; prōton men phulloroei, eita blastos ginetai, meta tauta
   omphax, eita staphulē parestēkuia. 4. houtōs kai ho laos mou akatastasias
   kai thlipseis eschen; epeita apolēpsetai ta agatha. 5. hōste, adelphoi mou,
   mē dipsuchōmen, alla elpisantes hupomeinōmen, hina kai ton misthon
   komisōmetha. 6. pistos gar estin ho epangeilamenos tas antimisthias
   apodidonai hekastō tōn ergōn autou. 7. ean oun poiēsōmen tēn dikaiosunēn
   enantion tou theou, eisēxomen eis tēn basileian autou kai lēpsometha tas
   epangelias, has ous ouk ēkousen oude ophthalmos eiden, oude epi kardian
   anthrōpou anebē.

    XII

   1. Ekdechometha oun kath’ hōran tēn basileian tou theou en agapē kai
   dikaiosunē, epeidē ouk oidamen tēn hēmeran tēs epiphaneias tou theou. 2.
   eperōtētheis gar autos ho kurios hupo tinos, pote hēxei autou hē basileia,
   eipen; Hotan estai ta duo hen, kai to exō hōs to esō, kai to arsen meta tēs
   thēleias oute arsen oute thēlu. 3. ta duo de hen estin, hotan lalōmen
   heautois alētheian kai en dusi sōmasin anupokritōs eiē mia psuchē, 4. kai to
   exō hōs to esō, touto legei; tēn psuchēn legei to esō, to de exō to sōma
   legei; hon tropon oun sou to sōma phainetai, houtōs kai hē psuchē sou dēlos
   estō en tois kalois ergois.  5. kai to arsen meta tēs thēleias, oute arsen
   oute thēlu, tauto legei; hina adelphos idōn adelphēn ouden phronē peri autēs
   thēlukon, mēd` phronē ti peri autou arsenikon. 6. tauta humōn poioutōn,
   phēsin, eleusetai hē basileia tou patros mou.

    XIII

   1. Adelphoi oun, ēdē pote metanēsōmen, nēpsōmen epi to agathon; mestoi gar
   esmen pollēs anoias kai´ponērias. exaleipsōmen aph’ hēmōn ta protera
   hamartēmata kai metanoēsantes ek psuchēs sōthōmen, kai mē ginōmetha
   anthrōpareskoi mēde thelōmen monon heautois areskein, alla kai tois exō
   anthrōpois epi tē dikaiosunē, hina to onoma di’ hēmas mē blasphēmētai. 2.
   legei gar ho kurios; Dia pantos to onoma mou blasphēmeitai en pasin tois
   ethnesin, kai palin; Ouai di’ hon blasphēmeitai to onoma mou. en tini
   blasphēmeitai? en tō mē poiein humas ha boulomai. 3. ta ethnē gar akouonta
   ek tou stomatos hēmōn ta logia tou theou hōs kala kai megala thaumazei;
   epeita katamatōn hōn legomen, enthen eis blasphēmian trepontai, legontes
   einai muthon tina kai planēn. 4. hotan alla charis humin, ei agapate tous
   echthrous kai tous misountas humas; tauta hotan akousōsin, thaumazousin tēn
   huperbolēn tēs agathotētos; hotan de idōsin, hoti ou monon tous misountas
   ouk agapōmen, all’ hoti oude tous agapōntas, katagelōsin hēmōn, kai
   blasphēmeitai to onoma.

    XIV

   Hōste, adelphoi, poiountes to thelēma tou patros hēmōn theou esometha ek tēs
   ekklēsias tēs prōtēs, tēs pneumatikēs, tēs pro hēliou kai selēnēs
   ektismenēs. ean de mē poiēsōmen to thelēma kuriou, esometha ek tēs graphēs
   tēs legousēs; Egenēthē ho oikos mou spēlaion lēstōn. hōste oun
   hairetisōmetha apo tēs ekklēsias tēs zōēs einai, hina sōthōmen. 2. ouk
   oiomai de humas agnoein, hoti ekklēsia zōsa sōma estin Christou; legei gar
   hē graphē; Epoiēsen ho theos ton anthrōpon arsen kai thēlu; to arsen estin
   ho Christos, to thēlu hē ekklēsia; kai eti ta biblia kai hoi apostoloi tēn
   ekklēsian ou nun eini legousin alla anōthen. ēn gar pneumatikē, hōs kai ho
   Iēsous hēmōn, ephanerōthē de ep’ eschatōn tōn hēmerōn, hina hēmas sōsē. 3.
   hē ekklēsia de pneumatikē ousa ephanerōthē en tē sarki Christou, dēlousa
   hēmin phtheirē, apolēpsetai autēn en tō pneumati tō hagiō; hē gar sarx
   hautē antitupos estin tou pneumatos; oudeis oun to antitupon phtheiras to
   authentikon metalēpsetai. ara oun touto legei, adelphoi; tērēsate tēn sarka,
   hina tou pneumatos metalabēte. 4. ei de legomen einai tēn sarka tēn
   ekklēsian kai to pneuma Christon, ara oun ho hubrisas tēn sarka hubrisen tēn
   ekklēsian. ho toioutos oun ou metalēpsetai tou pneumatos, ho estin ho
   Christos. 5. tosautēn dunatai hē sarx hautē metalabein zōēn kai aphtharian
   kollēthentos autē tou pneumatos tou hagiou, oute, exeipein tis dunatai oute
   lalēsai ha hētoimasen ho kurios tois eklektois autou.

    XV

   1. Ouk oiomai de, hoti mikran sumboulian epoiēsamēn peri enkrateias, hēn
   poiēsas tis ou metanoēsei, alla kai heauton sōsei kame ton sumbouleusanta.
   misthos gar ouk estin mikros planōmenēn psuchēn kai apollumenēn apostrepsai
   eis to sōthēnai. 2. tautēn gar echomen tēn antimisthian apodounai tō theō
   tō ktisanti hēmas, ean ho legōn kai akouōn meta pisteōs kai agapēs kai legē
   kai akouē. 3. emmeinōmen oun eph’ hois episteusamen dikaioi kai hosioi, hina
   meta parrēsias aitōmen ton theon ton legonta; Eti lalountos sou erō; idou
   pareimi. 4. touto gar to rhēma megalēs estin epangelias sēmeion;
   hetoimoteron gar heauton legei ho kurios eis to didonai tou aitountos. 5.
   tosautēs oun chrēstotētos metalambanontes mē phthonēsōmen heautois tuchein
   tosoutōn agathōn. hosēn gar hēdonēn echei ta rhēmata tauta tois poiēsasin
   auta, tosautēn katakrisin echei tois parakousasin.

    XVI

   1. Hōste, adelphoi, aphormēn labontes ou midran eis to metamoēsai, kairon
   echontes epistrepsōmen epi ton kalesai hēmas theon, heōs eti echomen ton
   paradechomenon hēmas. 2. ean gar tais hēdupatheiais tautais apotaxōmetha kai
   tēn psuchēn hēmōn nikēsōmen en tō mē poiein tas epithumias autēs tas
   ponēras, metalēpsometha tou eleous Iēsou. 3. ginōskete de, hoti erchetai
   ēdē hē hēmera tēs kriseōs hōs klibanos kaiomenos, kai takēsontai tines tōn
   ouranōn kai pasa hē gē hōs molibos epi puri tēkomenos; kai tote phanēsetai
   ta kruphia kai phanera erga tōn anthrōpōn. 4. kalon oun eleēmosunē hōs
   metanoia hamartias; kreissōn nēsteia proseuchēs, eleēmosunē de amphoterōn;
   agapē de kaluptei plēthos hamartiōn, proseuchē de ek kalēs suneidēseōs ek
   thanatou rhuetai. makarios pas ho heuretheis en toutois plērēs; eleēmosunē
   gar kouphisma hamartias ginetai.

    XVII

   1. Metanoēsōmen oun ex holēs kardias, hina mē tis hēmōn parapolētai. ei gar
   entolas echomen, hina kai touto prassōmen, apo tōn eidōlōn apospan kai
   katēchein, posō mallon psuchēn ēdē ginōskousan ton theon ou dei apollusthai?
   2. sullabōmen oun heautois kai tous asthenountas anagein peri to agathon,
   hopōs sōthōmen hapantes kai epistrepsōmen allēlous kai nouthetēsōmen. 3. kai
   mē monon arti dokōmen pisteuein kai prosechein en tō noutheteisthai hēmas
   hupo tōn presbuterōn, alla kai hotan eis oikon apallagōmen, mnēmonēeuōmen
   tōn tou kuriou entalmatōn kai mē antiparelkōmetha apo tōn kosmikōn
   epithumiōn, alla puknoteron proserchomenoi peirōmetha prokoptein en tais
   entolais tou kuriou, hina´pantes to auto phronountes sunēgmenoi ōmen epi tēn
   zōēn; 4. eipen gar ho kurios; Erchomai sunagagein panta ta eththnē, phulas
   kai glōssas; touto de legei tēn hēmeran tēs epiphaneias autou, hote elthōn
   lutrōsetai hēmas, hekaston kata ta erga autou. 5. kai opsontai tēn doxan
   autou kai to kratos hoi apistoi, kai xenisthēsontai idontes to basileion tou
   kosmou en tō Iēsou, legontes; Ouai hēmin, hoti su ēs, kai ouk ēdeimen kai
   ouk episteuomen kai ouk epeithometha tois presbuterois tois anangellousin
   hēmin peri tēs sōtērias hēmōn. kai ho skōlēx autōn ou teleutēsei kai to pur
   autōn ou sbesthēsetai, kai esontai eis horasin pasē sarki. 6. tēn hēmeran
   ekeinēn legei tēs kriseōs, hotan opsontai tous en hēmin asebēsantas kai
   paralogisamenous tas entolas Iēsou Christou. 7. hoi de dikaioi eupragēsantes
   kai hupomeinantes tas basanous kai misēsantes tas hudupatheias tēs psuchēs,
   hotan theasōntai tous astochēsantas kai arnēsamenous dia tōn logōn ē dia tōn
   ergōn ton Iēsoun, hopōs kolazontai deinais basanois puri asbestō esontai
   doxan didontes tō theō autōn legontes, hoti esta elpis tō dedouleukoti theō
   ex holēs kardias.

    XVIII

   1. Kai hēmeis oun genōmetha ek tōn eucharetountōn, dedouleukotōn tō theō,
   kai mē ek tōn krinomenōn asebōn. 2. kai gar autos panthamartōlos ōn kai
   mēpō phugōn ton peirasmon, all’ eti ōn en mesois tois organois tou diabolou
   spoudazō tēn dikaioōunēn diōkein, hopōs ischusō kan engus autēs genesthai,
   phoboumenos tēn krisin tēn mellousan.

    XIX

   1. Hōste, adelphoi kai adelphai, meta ton theon tēs alētheias anaginōskō
   humin enteuxin eis to prosechein tois gegrammenois, hina kai heautous sōsēte
   kai ton anaginōskonta en humin. misthon gar aitō humas to metanoēsai ex
   holēs kardias, sōtērian heautois kai zōēn didontas. touto gar poiēsantes
   skopon pasin tois neois thēsomen, tois boulomenois peri tēn eusebeian kai
   tēn chrēstotēta tou theou philoponein. 2. kai mē aēdōs echōmen kai
   aganaktōmen hoi asophoi, hotan tis hēmas nouthetē kai epistrephē apo tēs
   adikias eis tēn dikaiosunēn. eniote gar ponēra prassontes ou ginōskomen dia
   tēn dipsuchian kai apistian tēn enousan en tois stēthesin hēmōn, kai
   eskotismetha tēn dianoian hupo tōn epithumiōn tōn mataiōn. 3. praxōmen oun
   tēn dikaiophunēn, hina eis telos sōthōmen. makarioi hoi toutois hupakouontes
   tois prostagmasin; kan oligon chronon kakopathēsōsin en tō kosmō toutō, ton
   athanaton tēs anastaseōs karpon trugēsousin. 4. mē oun lupeisthō ho eusebēs,
   ean epi tois nun chronos; ekeinos anō meta tōn paterōn anabiōsas
   euphranthēsetai eis ton alupēton aiōna.

    XX

   1. Alla mēde ekeino tēn dianoian humōn tarassetō, hoti blepomen tous adikous
   ploutountas kai stenochōroumenous tous tou theou doulous. 2. pisteuōmen oun,
   adelphoi kai adelphai; theou zōntos peiran athloumen kai gumnazometha tō nun
   biō, hina tō mellonti stephanōthōmen. 3. oudeis tōn dikaiōn tachun karpon
   elaben, all’ ekdechetai auton. 4. ei gar ton misthon tōn dikaiōn ho theos
   suntomōs apedidou, eutheōs emporian ēskoumen kai ou theosebeian; edokoumen
   gar einai dikaioi, ou to eusebes, alla to kerdaleon diōkontes. kai dia touto
   theia krisis eblapsen pneuma mē on dikaion, kai ebarunen desmois.
   5. Tō monō theō aoratō, patri tēs alētheias, tō exaposteilanti hēmin ton
   sōtēra kai archēgon tēs aphtharsias, di’ hou kai ephanerōsen hēmin tēn
   alētheian kai tēn epouranion zōēn, autō hē doxa eis tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn.
   amēn.

   Klēmentos pros Korinthious epistolē b^̅.
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  PROS EPhESIOUS IGNATIOS

   Ignatios ho kai Theophoros, tē eulogēmenē en megethei theou patros
   plērōmati, tē proōrismenē pro aiōnōn einai dia pantos eis doxan paramonon
   atrepton, hēnōmenē kai eklelegmenē en pathei alēthinō, en thelēmati tou
   patros kai Iēsou Christou tou theou hēmōn, tē ekklēsia tē axiomakristō, tē
   ousē en Ephesō tēs Asias, pleista en Iēsou Christō kai en amōmō chara
   chairein.

    I

   1. Apodexamenos en theō to polthagapēton sou onoma, ho ketēsthe phusei
   dikaia kata pistin kai agapēn en Christō Iēsou, tō sōtēri hēmōn; mimētai
   ontes theou, anazōpurēsantes en haimati theou to sungenikon ergon teleiōs
   apērtisate; 2. akousantes gar dedemenon apo Surias huper tou koinou onomatos
   kai elpidos, elpizonta tē proseuchēē¨ humōn epituchein en ῾Rōmē
   thēriomachēsai, hina dia tou epituchein dunēthō mathētēs einai, idein
   espoudasate; 3. epei oun tēn poluplētheian humōn en onomati theou apeilēpha
   en Onēsimō, tō en agapē adiēgētō, humōn de episkopō, hon euchomai kata
   Iēsoun Christon humas agapan kai pantas humas augō en homoiotēti einai.
   eulogētos gar ho charisamenos humin axiois ousi toiouton episkopon
   kektēsthai.

    II

   1. Peri de tou sundoulou mou Bourrou, tou kata theon diakonou humōn en pasin
   eulogēmenou, euchomai parameinai auton eis timēn humōn kai tou episkopou;
   kai Krokos de, ho theou axios kai humōn, hon exemplarion tēs aph’ humōn
   agapēs apelabon, kata panta me anepausen, hōs kai auton ho patēr Iēsou
   Christou anapsuxai, hama Onēsimō kai Bourrō kai Euplō kai Phrontōni, di’ hōn
   pantas humas kata agapēn eidon. 2. onaimēn humōn dia pantos, eanper axios ō.
   prepon oun estin kata panta tropon doxazein Iēsoun Christon ton doxasanta
   humas, hina en mia hupotagē katērtismenoi, hupotassomenoi tō episkopō kai
   tō presbuteriō, kata panta ēte hēgiasmenoi.

    III

   1. Ou diatassomai humin hōs tis. ei gar kai dedemai en tō onomati, oupō
   apērtismai en Iēsou Christō; nun gar archēn echō tou mathēteuesthai, kai
   proslalō humin hōs sundidaskalitais mou. eme gar edei huph’ humōn
   hupaleiphthēnai pistei, nouthesia, hupomonē, makrothumia. 2. all’ epei hē
   agapē ouk ea me siōpan peri humōn, dia touto proelabon parakalein humas,
   hopōs suntrechēte tē gnōmē tou theou. kai gar Iēsous Christos, to adiakriton
   hēmōn zēn, tou patros hē gnōmē, hōs kai hoi episkopoi, hoi kata ta perata
   horisthentes, en Iēsou Christou gnōmē eisin.

    IV

   1. Hothen prepei humin suntrechein tē tou epi-skopou gnōmē hoper kai
   poieite. to gar axionomaston humōn presbuterion, tou theou axion, houtōs
   sunērmostai tō episkopō, hōs chordai kithara. dia touto en tē homonoia humōn
   kai sumphōnō agapē Iēsous Christos adetai. 2. kai hoi kat’ andra de choros
   ginethe, hina sumōnoi ontes en homonoia, chrōma theou labontes en henotēti,
   adēte en phōnē mia dia Iēsou Christou tō patri, hina humōn kai akousē kai
   epiginōskē, di’ hōn eu prassete, melē ontas tou huiou autou. chrēsimon oun
   estin humas en amōmō henotēti einai, hina kai theou pantote metechēte.

    V

   1. Ei gar egō en mikrō chronō toiautēn sunētheian eschon pros ton episkopon
   humōn, ouk anthrōpinēn ousan, alla pneumatikēn, posō mallon humas makarizō
   tous enkekramenous houtōs, hōs hē ekklēsia Iēsou Christō, kai hōs Iēsous
   Christos tō patri, hina panta en henotēti sumphōna ē? 2. mēdeis planasthō;
   ean mē tis ē entos tou thusiastēriou, hustereitai tou artou tou theou. ei
   gar henos kai deuterou proseuchē tosautēn ischun echei, posō mallon hē te
   tou episkopou kai pasēs tēs ekklēsias? 3. ho oun mē erchomenos epi to auto
   houtos ēdē huperēphanei kai heauton diekrinen. gegraptai  gar; Huperēphanois
   ho theos antitassetai, spoudasōmen oun mē antitassesthai tō epi-skopō, hina
   ōmen theō hupotassomenoi.

    VI

   1. Kai hoson blepei tis sigōnta episkopon, pleionōs auton phobeisthō; panta
   gar, hon pempei ho oikodespotēs eis idian oikonomian, houtōs dei  hēmas
   auton dechechthai, hōs auton ton pempsanta. ton oun episkopon dēlon hoti hōs
   auton kurion dei prosblepein. 2. autos men oun Onēsimos huper-epainei humōn
   tēn en theō eutaxian, hoti pantes kata alētheian zēte kai hoti en humin
   oudemia airesis kaoikei; all’ oude akouete tinos pleon, ē peri Iēsou
   Christou lalountos en alētheia.

    VII

   1. Eiōthasin gar tines dolō ponērō to onoma peripherein, alla tina
   prassontes anaxia theou;  ous dei humas hōs thēria ekklinein; eisin gar
   kunes  lussōntes, lathrodēktai; ohus dei humas phthlassesthai ontas
   dustherapeutos. 2. heis iatros estin, sarkikos te kai pneumatikos, gennētos
   kai agennētos, en anthrōpō theos, en thanatō zōē alēthinē, kai ek Marias kai
   ek theou, prōton pathētos kai tote apathēs, Iēsous Christos ho kurios
   hēmōn.

    VIII

   1. Mē oun tis humas exapatatō, hōsper oude exapatasthe, holoi ontes theou.
   hotan gar mēdemia eris enēreistai en humin hē dunamenē humas basanisai, ara
   kata theon zēte. peripsēma humōn kai hagnizomai humōn Ephesiōn, ekklēsias
   tēs diaboē-tou tois aiōsin. 2. hoi sarkikoi ta pneumatika prassein ou
   dunatai, oude hoi pneumatikoi ta sarkika, hōsper oude hē pistis ta tēs
   apistias oude hē apistia ta tēs pisteōs. ha de kai kata sarka prassete,
   tauta pneumatika estin; en Iēsou gar Christō panta prassete.

    IX

   1. Egnōn de parodeusantas tinas ekeithen, echon-tas kakēn didachēn; ohus ouk
   eiasate speirai eis humas, busantes ta ōta, eis to mē paradexasthai ta
   speiromena hup’ autōn, hōs ontes lithoi naou patros, hētoimasmenoi eis
   oikodomēn theou patros, anapheromenoi eis ta hupsē dia tēs mēchanēs Iēsou
   Christou, hos estin stauros, spsoiniō psrōmenoi tō pneumati tō hagiō; hē de
   pistis humōn anagōgeus humōn, hē de agapē hodos hē anapherousa eis theon. 2.
   este oun kai sunodoi pantes, theophoroi kai naophoroi, christophoroi,
   hagiophoroi, kata panta kekosmēmenoi entolais  Iēsou Christou;  hois kai
   agalliōmenos ēxiōthēn di’ hōn graphō prosomilēsai humin kai suncharēnai,
   hoti kat’ anthrōpōn bion ouden agapate ei mē monon ton theon.

    X

   1. Kai huper tōn allōn de anthrōpōn adia-leiptōs proseuchesthe, estin gar en
   autois elpis metanoias, hina theou tuchōsin. epitrepsate oun autois kan ek
   tōn ergōn humin mathēteuthēnai. 2. pros tas orgas autōn humeis praeis, pros
   tas megalorēmosunas autōn humeis tapeinophrones, pros tas blasphēmias autōn
   humeis tas proseuchas, pros tēn plapnēn autōn humeis hēmeroi, mē
   spoudazontes antimimēsasthai autous. 3. adelphoi autōn heurethōmen tē
   epieideia; mimētai de tou kuriou spou-dazōmen einai, tis pleon adikēthē, tis
   aposterēthē, tis athetēthē; hina mē tou diabolou botanē tis heurethē en
   humin, all’ en pasē hagneia kai sōphrosunē menēte en Iēsou Christō¨ sarkikōs
   kai pneumatikōs.

    XI

   1. Eschatoi kairoi, loipon aischunthōmen, phobēthōmen tēn makrothumian tou
   theou, hina mē hēmin eis krima genētai. ē gar tēn mellousan orgēn
   phobē-thōmen, ē tēn enestōsan charin agapēpsōmen, hen tōn duo; monon en
   Chritō Iēsou heurethēnai eis to alēthinon zēn. 2. chōris toutou mēden humin
   prepetō, en hō ta desma peripherō, tous pneumatikous margaritas, en hois
   genoito moi  anatēnai tē proseuchē humōn, hēs genoito moi aei metachon
   einai, hina en klērō Ephesiōn heurethō tōn Christianōn, hoi kai tois
   apostolois pantote sunēnesan en dunamei Iēsou Christou.

    XII

   1. Oida, tis eimi kai tisin graphō. egō katakritos, humeis ēleēmenoi; egō
   hupo kindunon, humeis estērugmenoi; 2. parodos este tōn eis theon
   anairoumenōn, Paulou summustai tou hēgiasmenou, tou memarturēmenon,
   axiomakariston, hou genoito moi hupo ta ichnē heurethēnai, hotan theou
   epituchō, hos en pasē epistolē mnēmoneuei humōn en Christō Iēsou.

    XIII

   1. Spoudazete oun puknoteron sunerchesthai eis eucharistian theou kai eis
   doxan. hotan gar puknōs epi to auto ginesthe, kathairountai hai dunameis tou
   Chatana, kai luetai ho olethros autou en tē homonoia humōn tēs pisteōs. 2.
   ouden estin ameinon eirēnēs, en hē pas polemos katargeitai epouraiōn kai
   epigeiōn.

    XIV

   1. Hōn ouden lanthanei humas, ean teleiōs eis Iēsou Christon echēte tēn
   pistin kai tēn agapēn, hētis estin archē zōēs kai telos; archē men pistis,
   telos de agapē. ta de duo en henotēti genomena theos estin, ta de alla panta
   eis kalokagathian akoloutha estin. 2. oudeis pistin epangellomenos
   hamartanei, oude agapēn kektēmenos misei. phaneron to dendron apo tou karpou
   autou. houtōs hoi epag-gellomenoi Christou einai di’ hōn prassousin
   ophthēsontai. ou gar nun epangelias to ergon, all’ en dunamei pisteōs ean
   tis heurethē eis telos.

    XV

   1. Ameinon estin siōpan kai einai, ē lalounta mē einai. kalon to didaskein,
   ean ho legōn poiē. heis oun didaskalos, hos eipen, kai egeneto; kai ha sigōn
   de pepoiēken axia tou patros estin. 2. ho logon Iēsou kektēmenos alēthōs
   dunatai kai tēs hēsuchias autou akouein, hina teleios ē, hina di’ hōn lalei
   prassē kai di’ hōn siga ginōskētai. 3. ouden lanthanei ton kurion, alla kai
   ta krupta hēmōn engus autō estin, panta oun poiōmen hōs autou en hēmin
   katoikountos, hina ōmen autou naoi kai autos en hēmin theos hēmōn; hoper kai
   estin kai phanēsetai pro prosōpou hēmōn, ex hōn dikaiōs aapōmen auton.

    XVI

   1. Mē planasthe, adelphoi mou; hoi oikophthoroi basileian theou ou
   klēronomēsousin. 2. ei oun hoi kata sarka tauta prassontes apethanon, posō
   mallon, ean pistin theou en kakē didaskalia phtheirē, huper hēs Iēsous
   Christos estaurōthē? ho toioutos rhuparos genomenos, eis to pur to asbeston
   chōrēsei, homoiōs kai ho akouōn autou.

    XVII

   1. Dia touto muron elaben epi tēs kephalēs autou ho kurios, hina pneē tē
   ekklēsia aphtharsian. mē aleiphesthe dusōdian tēs didaskalias tou archontos
   tou aiōnos toutou, mē aichmalōtisē humas ek tou prokeimenou zēn. 2. dia ti
   de ou pantes phronimoi ginometha labontes theou gnōsin, ho estin Iēsous
   Christos? ti mōrōs apollumetha, agnoountes to charisma, ho peppomphen
   alēthōs ho kurios?

    XVIII

   1. Peripsēma to emon pneuma tou staurou, ho estin skandalon tois apistousin,
   hēmin de sōtēria kai zōē aiōnios. pou sōphos? pou suzētētēs?  pou kauchēsis
   tōn legomenōn sunetōn? 2. ho gar theos hēmōn Iēsous ho Christos
   ekuophorēthē hupo Marias kat’ oikonomian theou ek spermatos men Daueid,
   pneumatos de hagiou; hos egennēthē kai ebaptisthē, hina tō pathei to hudōr
   katharisē.

    XIX

   1. Kai elathen ton archonta tou aiōnos toutou hē parthenia Marias kai ho
   toketos autēs, homoiōs kai ho thanatos tou kuriou; tria mustēria kraugēs,
   hatina en hēsuchia theou eprachthē. 2. pōs oun ephanerōthē tois aiōsin?
   astēr en ouranō elampsen huper pantas tous asteras, kai to phōs autou
   aneklalēton ēn kai xenismon pareichen hē kainotēs autou, ta de  loipa  panta
   astra  hama  hēliō kai selēnē choros egeneto tō asteri, autos de ēn
   huperballōn to phōs autou huper´panta; tarachē te  ēn,  pothen hē kainotēs
   hē  anomoios  autois.   3. hothen elueto pasa mageia kai´pas desmos
   ēphanizeto kakias; agnoia kathēreito, palaia basi-leia diephtheireto theou
   anthrōpinōs phaneroumenou eis kainotēta aidiou zōēs;  archēn de elambanen to
   para theō apērtismenon. enthen ta panta sunekineito dia to meletasthai
   thanatou katalusin.

    XX

   1. Ean me kataxiōsē Iēsous Christos en tē proseuchē humōn kai thelēma ē, en
   tō deuterō biblidiō, ho mellō graphein humin, prosdēlōsō humin, hēs ērxamēn
   oikonomias eis ton kainon anthrōpon Iēsoun Christon, en tē autou pistei kai
   en tē autou agapē, en pathei autou kai anastasei; 2. malista ean ho kurios
   moi apokalupsē, hoti hoi kat’ andra koinē pantes en chariti ex onomatos
   sunerchesthe en mia pistei kai en Iēsou Christō, tō kata sarka ek genous
   Daueid, tō anthrōpou kai huiō theou, eis to hupakouein humas tō episkopō kai
   tō presbuteriō aperispastō kianoia, hena arton klōntes, hos estin pharmakon
   athanasias, antidotos tou mē apothanein, alla zēn en Iēsou Christō dia
   pantos.

    XXI

   1. Antipsuchon humōn egō kai hōn epempsate eis theou timēn eis Smurnan,
   hothen kai graphō humin, eucharistōn tō kuriō, agapōn Polukarpon hōs kai
   humas; mnēmoneuete mou, hōs kai humōn Iēsous Christos. 2. proseuchesthe
   huper tēs ekklēsias tēs en Suria, hothen dedemenos eis ῾Rōmēn apagomai,
   eschatos hōn tōn ekei pistōn, hōsper ēxiōthēn eis timēn theou heurethēnai.
   errōsthe en theō patri kai en Iēsou Christō, tē koinē elpidi hēmōn.
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  MAGNĒSIEUSIN IGNATIOS

   Ignatios, ho kai Theophoros, tē eulogēmenē en chariti theou patros en
   Christō Iēsou tō sōtēri hēmōn, en hō aspazomai tēn ekklēsian tēn ousan en
   Magnēsia tē pros Maiandrō kai euchomai en theō patri kai en Iēsou Christō
   pleista chairein.

    I

   1. Gnous humōn to polueutakton tēs kata theon agapēs, agalliōmenos
   proeilomēn en pistei Iēsou Christou proslalēsai humin. 2. kataxiōtheis gar
   onomatos theoprepestatou, en hois peripherō desmois a dō tas ekklēsias, en
   hais henōsin euchomai sarkos kai pneumatos Iēsou Christou, tou dia pantos
   hēmōn zēn, pisteōs te kai agapēs, hēs ouden prokekritai, to de kuriōteron
   Iēsou kai patros; en hō hupomenontes tēn pasan epēreian tou archontos tou
   aiōnos toutou kai diaphugontes theou teuxometha.

    II

   1. Epei oun ēxiōthēn idein humas dia Dama tou axiotheon humōn episkopou kai
   presbuterōn axiōn Bassou kai Apollōniou kai tou sundoulou mou diakonon
   Zōtiōnos, hou egō onaimēn, hoti hupotassetai tō episkopō hōs chariti theou
   kai tō presbuteriō hōs nomō Iēsou Christou.

    III

   1. Kai humin de prepei mē sunchrasthai tē hēlikia tou episkopou, alla kata
   dunamin theou patros pasan entropēn autō aponemein, kathōs egnōn kai tous
   hagious presbuterous ou proseilēphotas tēn phainomenēn neōterikēn taxin,
   all’ hōs phronimous en theō sunchōrountas autō, ouk autō de, alla tō patri
   Iēsou Christou, tō pantōn episkopō. 2. eis timēn oun ekeinou tou thelēsantos
   hēmas prepon estin epakouein kata mēdemian hupokrisin; epei ouch hoti ton
   episkopon touton ton blepomenon plana tis, alla ton aoraton paralogizetai.
   to de toiouton ou pros sarka ho logos, alla pros theon ton ta kruphia
   eidota.

    IV

   1. Prepon oun estin mē monon kaleisthai Christianous, alla kai einai; hōsper
   kai tines episkopon men kalousin, chōris de autou panta prassousin. hoi
   toioutoi de ouk eusuneidētoi moi einai phainontai dia to mē bebaiōs kat’
   entolēn sunathroizesthai.

    V

   1. Epei oun telos ta pragmata echei kai prokeitai ta duo homou, ho te
   thanatos kai hē zōē, kai hekastos eis ton idion topon mellei chōrein; 2.
   hōsper gar estin nomismata duo, ho men theou, ho de kosmou, kai hekaston
   autōn idion charaktēra epikeimenon echei, hoi apistoi tou kosmou toutou, hoi
   de pistoi en agapē charaktēra theou patros dia Iēsou Christou, di’ hou ean
   mē authairetōs echōmen to apothanein eis to autou pathos, to zēn autou ouk
   estin en hēmin.

    VI

   1. Epei oun en tois progegrammenois prosōpois to pan plēthos etheōrēsa en
   pistei kai ēgapēsa, parainō, en homonoia theou spoudazete panta prassein,
   prokathēmenou tou episkopou eis topon theou kai tōn presbuterōn eis topon
   sunedriou tōn apostolōn, kai tōn diakonōn tōn emoi glukutatōn pepisteumenōn
   diakonian Iēsou Christou, hos pro aiōnōn para patri ēn kai en telei ephanē.
   2. pantes oun homoētheian theou labontes entrepesthe allēlous kai mēdeis
   kata sarka blepetō ton plēsion, all’ en Iēsou Christō allēlous dia pantos
   agapate. mēden estō en humin, ho dunēsetai humas merisai all’ henōthēte tō
   episkopō kai tois prokathēmenois eis tupon kai didachēn aphtharsias.

    VII

   1. Hōsper oun ho kurios aneu tou patros ouden epoiēsen, hēnōmenos ōn, oute
   di’ heautou oute dia tōn apostolōn; houtōs mēde humeis aneu tou epispopou
   kai tōn presbuterōn mēden prassete; mēde peirasēte eulogon ti phainesthai
   idia humin, nous, mia elpis en agapē, en tē chara tē amōmō, ho estin Iēsous
   Christos, hou ameinon ouden estin. 2. pantes hōs eis hena naon suntrechete
   theou, hōs epi hen thusiastērion, epi hena Iēsoun Christon, ton aph’ henos
   patros proelthonta kai eis hena onta kai chōrēsanta.

    VIII

   1. Mē planasthe tais heterodoxiais mēde mutheumasin tois palaiois
   anōphelesin ousin. ei gar mechri nun kata Ioudaismon zōmen, homologoumen
   charin mē eilēphenai. 2. hoi gar theiotatoi prophētai kata Christon Iēsoun
   ezēsan. dia touto kai ediōchthēsan, enpneomenoi hupo tēs charitos autou, eis
   to plērophrēthēnai tous apeithountas, hoti eis tou huiou autou, hos estin
   autou logos apo sigēs proelthōn, hos kata panta euērestēsen tō pempsanti
   auton.

    IX

   1. Ei oun hoi en palaiois pragmasin anastra. phentes eis kainotēta elpidos
   ēlthon, mēketi sabbatizontes, alla kata kuriakēn zōntes, en hē kai hē zōē
   hēmōn aneteilen di’ autou kai tou thanatou autou, hon tines arnountai, di’
   hou mustēriou elabomen to pisteuein, kai dia touto hupomenomen, hina
   heurethōmen mathētai Iēsou Christou tou monou didaskalou hēmōn; 2. pōs
   hēmeis dunaēsometha dēsai chōris autou, hou kai hoi prophētai mathētai ontes
   tō pneumati hōs didaskalon auton prosedokōn? kai dia touto, hon dikaiōs
   anemenon, parōn ēgeiren autous ek nekrōn.

    X

   1. Mē oun anaisthētōmen tēs psrēstotētos autou. ean gar hēmas mimēsētai
   katha prassomen, ouketi esmen. dia touto, mathētai autou genomenoi, mathōmen
   kata Christianismon zēn. hos gar allō onomati kaleitai pleon toutou, ouk
   estin tou theou. 2. huperthesthe oun tēn kakēn zumēn, tēn palaiōtheisan kai
   enoxisasan, kai Christos. halisthēte en autō, hina mē diaphtharē tis en
   humin, epei apo tēs tēs osmēs elenchthēsesthe. 3. atopon estin, Iēsoun
   Christon lalein kai ioudaizein. ho gar christianismos ouk eis
   Christianismon, hō pasa glōssa pisteusasa eis theon sunēchthē.

    XI

   1. Tauta de, agapētoi mou, ouk epei egnōn tinas ex humōn houtōs echontas,
   all’ hōs mikroteros humōn ankistra tēs kenodoxias, alla peplērophorēsthai en
   tē gennēsei kai tō pathei kai tē anastasei tē genomenē en kairō tēs
   hēgemonias Pontiou Pilatou; prachthenta alēthōs kai bebaiōs hupo Iēsou
   Christou, tēs elpidos hēmōn, hēs ektrapēnai mēdeni humōn genoito.

    XII

   1. Onaimēn humōn kata panta, eanper axios hō. ei gar kai dedemai, pros hena
   tōn lelumenōn humōn ouk eimi. oida hoti ou phusiousthe; Iēsoun gar Christon
   echete en heautois; kai mallon, hotan epainō humas, oida, hoti entrepesthe,
   hōs gegraptai, hoti ho dikaios heautou katēgoros.

    XIII

   1. Spoudazete oun bebaiōthēnai en tois dogmasin tou kuriou kai tōn
   apostolōn, hina panta, hosa poieite, kaeuodōthēte sarki kai peneumati, en
   arpsē kai en telei, meta tou axioprepestatou episkopou humōn kai axioplokou
   pneumatikou stephanou tou presbuteriou humōn kai tōn kata theon diakonōn. 2.
   hupotagēte tō episkopō kai allēlois, hōs Iēsous Christos tō patri kai hoi
   apostoloi tō Christō kai tō patri hina henōsis ē sarkikē te kai pneumatikē.

    XIV

   1. Eidōs, hoti theou gemete, suntomōs parekepleusa humas. mnēmoneuete mou en
   tais proseuchais humōn, hina theou epituchō, kai tēs en Suria ekklēsias,
   hothen ouk axios eimi kaleisthai; epideomai gar tēs hēnōmenēs humōn en theō
   proseuchēs kai agapēs, eis to axiōthēnai tēn en Suria ekklēsian dia tēs
   ekklēsias humōn drosisthēnai.

    XV

   1. Aspazontai humas Ephesioi apo Smurnēs, hothen kai graphō humin, parontes
   eis doxan theou, hōsper kai humeis ohi kata p´panta me anepausan hama
   Polukarpō, episkopō Smurnaiōn. kai hai loipai de ekklēsiai en timē Iēsou
   Christou aspasontai humas. errōsthe en homonoia theou, kektēmenoi adiakriton
   pneuma, hos estin Iēsous Christos.
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  TRALLIANOIS IGNATIOS

   Ignatios, ho kai Theophoros, ēgapēmenē theō, patri Iēsou Christou, ekklēsia
   hagia tē ousē en Trallesin tēs Asias, eklektē kai axiotheō, eirēneuousē en
   sarki kai pneumati tō pathei Iēsou Christou, tēs elpidos hēmōn en tē eis
   auton anastasei; hēn kai aspazomai en tō plērōmati en apostolikō charaktēri
   kai euchomai pleista chairein.

    I

   1. Amōmon dianoian kai adiakriton en hupomonē egnōn humas echontas, ou kata
   chrēsin alla kata phusin, kathōs edēlōsen moi Polubios, ho episkopos humōn,
   hos paregeneto thelēmati theou kai Iēsou Christou en Smurnē kai houtōs moi
   sunecharē dedemenō en Christō Iēsou, hōste me to pan plēthos humōn en autō
   theōreisthai. 2. apodexamenos oun tēn kata theon eunoian di’ autou edoxasa,
   heurōn humas, hōs egnōn, mimētas ontas theou.

    II

   1. Hotan gar tō episkopō huotassēsthe hōs Iēsou Christō, phainesthe moi ou
   kata anthrōpon zōntes, alla kata Iēsoun Christon ton di’ hēmas apothanonta,
   hina pisteusantes eis ton thanaton autou to apothanein ekphugēte. 2.
   anankaion oun estin, hōsper poieite, aneu tou episkopou mēden prassein
   humas, all’ hupotassesthai kai tō presbuteriō hōs tois apostolois Iēsou
   Christou 3. dei de kai tous diakonous ontas mustēriōn Iēsou Christou kata
   panta tropon pasin areskein. ou gar brōmatōn kai potōn eisin diakonoi,
   all’ ekklēsias theou hupēretai; deon oun autous phulassesthai ta enklēmata
   hōs pur.

    III

   1. Homoiōs pantes entrepesthōsan tous diakonous hōs Iēsoun Christon, hōs kai
   ton episkopon onta tupon tou patros, tous de presbuterous hōs sunedrion
   theou kai hōs sundesmon apostolōn. chōris toutōn ekklēsia ou kaleitai. 2.
   peri hōn pepeismai humas houtōs echein. to gar exemplarion tēs agapēs humōn
   elabon kai echō meth’ heautou en tō episkopō humōn, hou auto to katastēma
   megalē mathēteia, hē de praotēs autou dunamis; hon logizomai kai tous
   atheous entrepesthai. 3. agapōn humas pheidomai, suntonōteron dunamenos
   graphein huper toutou. ouk eis touto ōēthēn, hina ōn katakritos hōs
   apostolos humin diatassōmai.

    IV

   1. Polla phronō en theō, all’ emauton metrō, hina mē en kauchēsei apolōmai.
   nun gar me dei pleon phobeisthai kai mē prosechein tois phusiousin me. hoi
   gar legontes moi mastigousin me. 2. agapō men gar to pathein, all’ ouk oida,
   ei axios eimi. to gar zēlos pollois men ou phainetai, eme de pleon polemei.
   chrēzō oun praotētos, en hē kataluetai ho archōn tou aiōnos toutou.

    V

   1. Mē ou dunamai humin ta epourania grapsai? alla phoboumai, mē nēpiois
   ousin humin blabēn parathō; kai sungnōmoneite moi, mēpote ou egō, ou kathoti
   dedemai kai dunamai noin ta epourania kai tas topothesias tas angelikas kai
   tas sustaseis tas archontikas, horata te kai aorata, para touto ēdē kai
   mathētēs eimi. polla gar hēmin leipei, hina theou mē leipōmetha.

    VI

   1. Parakalō oun humas, ouk egō, all’ hē agapē Iēsou Christou; monē tē
   christianē trophē chrēsthe, allotrias de botanēs apechesthe, hētis estin
   hairesis;  2. ohi heautois paremplekousin Iēsoun Christon
   kataxiopisteuomenoi, hōsper thanasimon pharmakon didontes meta oinomelitos,
   hoper ho agnoōn hēdeōs lambanei en hēdonē kakē to apothanein.

    VII

   1. Phulattesthe oun tous toioutous. touto de estai humin phusioumenois kai
   ousin achōristois theou Iēsou Christou kai tou episkopou kai tōn diatagmatōn
   tōn apostolōn. 2. ho entos thusiastēriou ōn katharos estin; tout’ estin, ho
   chōris episkopou kai presbuteriou kai diakonōn prassōn ti, houtos katharos
   estin tē suneidēsei.

    VIII

   1. Ouk epei egnōn toiouton ti en humin, alla prophulassō humas ontas mou
   a0gapētous, proorōn tas enedras tou diabolou, humeis ou tēn praupatheian
   analabontes anaktēsasthe heautous en pistei ho estin sarx tou kuriou, kai en
   agapē, ho estin haima Iēsou Christou. 2. mēdeis humōn kata tou plēsion
   echetō. mē aphormas didote tois ethnesin, hina mē di’ oligous aphronas to en
   theō plēthos blasphēmētai. Ouai gar, di’ hou epi mataiotēti to onoma mou epi
   tinōn blasphēmeitai.

    IX

   1. Kōphōthēte oun, hotan humin chōris Iēsou Christou lalē tis, tou ek genous
   Daueid, tou ek Marias, hos alēthōs egennēthē, ephagen te kai epien, alēthōs
   ediōchthē epi Pontiou Pilatou, alēthōs estaurōthē kai epigeiōn kai
   hupochthoniōn. 2. hos kai alēthōs ēgerthē apo nekrōn, egeirantos auton tou
   patros autou, kata to homoiōma hos kai hēmas tous pisteuontas autō houtōs
   egerei ho patēr autou en Christō Iēsou, hou chōris to alēthinon zēn ouk
   echomen.

    X

   1. Ei de, hōsper tines atheoi ontes, toutestin apistoi, legousin, to dokein
   peponthenai auton, autoi hontes to dokein, egō ti dedemai, ti de kai
   euchomai thēriomachēsai? dōrean oun apothnēskō. ara oun katapseudomai tou
   kuriou.

    XI

   1. Pheugete oun tas kakas paraphuadas tas gennōsas karpon thanatēphoron, hou
   ean geusētai phuteia patros. 2. ei gar ēsan, ephainonto an kladoi tou
   staurou, kai ēn an ho karpos autōn aphthartos; di’ hou en tō pathei autou
   proskaeitai humas ontas melē autou. ou dunatai oun kephalē chōris
   gennēthēnai aneu melōn, tou theou henōsin epangellomenou, ho estin autos.

    XII

   1. Aspazomai humas apo Smurnēs hama tais sumparousais moi ekklusiais tou
   theou, ohi kata panta me anepausan sarki te kai pneumati. 2. parakalei humas
   ta desma mou, ha heneken Iēsou Christou peripherō, aitoumenos theou
   epituchein; diamenete en tē homonoia humōn kai tē met’ allēlōn proseuchē.
   prepei gar humin tois kath’ hena, exairetōs kai tois presbuterois,
   anapsuchein ton episkopon eis timēn patros, Iēsou Christou kai tōn
   apostolōn. 3. euchomai humas en humin grapsas. kai peri emou de
   proseuchesthe, tēs aph’ to kataxiōthēnai me tou klērou, hou perikeimai
   epituchein, hina mē adokimos heurethō.

    XIII

   1. Aspazetai humas hē agapē Smurnaiōn kai Ephesiōn. mnēmoneuete en tais
   proseuchais humōn tēs en Suria ekklēsias, hothen kai ouk axios eimi
   legesthai, ōn eschatos ekeinōn. 2. errōsthe en Iēsou Christō, hupotassomenoi
   tō episkopō hōs tē entolē, homoiōs kai tō presbuteriō. kai hoi kat’ andra
   allēlous agapate en ameristō kardia. 3. hagnizetai humōn to emon pneuma ou
   monon nun, alla kai hotan theou epituchō. eti gar hupo kindunon eimi; alla
   pistos ho patēr en Iēsou Christō plērōsai mou tēn aitēsin kai humōn, en hō
   heuretheiēte amōmoi.
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  RŌMAIOIS IGNATIOS

   Ignatios, ho kai Theophoros, tē ēleēmenē en megaleiotēti patros hupsistou
   kai Iēsou Christou tou monou huiou autou ekklēsia ēgapēmenē kai
   pephōtismenē en thelēmati tou thelēsantos ta panta, ha estin, kata agapēn
   Iēsou Christou, tou theou hēmōn, hētis kai prokathētai en topō chōriou
   ῾Rōmaiōn, axiotheos, axiepiteuktos, axiagnos kai prokathēmenē tēs agapēs,
   christōnumos, patrōnumos, hēn kai aspazomai en onomati Iēsou Christou, huiou
   patros; kata sarka kai pneuma hēnōmenois pasē entolē autou, peplērōmenois
   charitos theou adiakritōs kai apodiulismenois apo pantos allotriou chrōmatos
   pleista en Iēsou Christō, tō theō hēmōn, amōmōs chairein.

    I

   1. Epei euxamenos theō epetuchon idein humōn ta axiothea prosōpa, hōs kai
   pleon ētoumēn labein; dedemenos gar en Christō Iēsou elpizō humas aspasmenos
   eanper thelēma ē tou axiōthēnai me eis telos einai. 2. hē men gar archē
   euoikonomētos estin, eanper charitos epithuchō eis to ton klēron mou
   anempodistōs apolabein. phoboumai gar tēn humōn agapēn, mē autē me adikēsē.
   humin gar eucheres estin, ho thelete, poiēsai; emoi de duskolon estin tou
   theou epituchein, eanper humeis mē pheisēsthe mou.

    II

   1. Ou gar thelō humas anthrōpareskēsai, alla theō aresai, hōsper kai
   arekete. oute gar egō pote hexō kairon toiouton theou epituchein, oute
   humeis, ean siōpēsēte, kreittoni ergō echete epigraphēnai. ean gar siōpēsēte
   ap’ emou, egō logos theou; ean de erasthēte tēs sarkos mou, palin esomai
   phōnē. 2. pleon moi mē paraspsēsthe tou spondisthēnai theō, hōs eti
   thusiastērion hetoimon estin, hina en agapē choros genomenoi asēte tō patri
   en Christō Iēsou, hoti ton episkopon Surias ho theos katēxiōsen heurethēnai
   eis dusin apo anatolēs metapempsamenos. kalon to dunai apo kosmou pros
   theon, hina eis auton anateilō.

    III

   1. Oudepote ebaskanate oudeni, allous edidaxate. egō de thelō, hina kakeina
   bebaia ē ha mathēteuontes entellesthe. 2. monon moi dunamin aiteisthe
   esōthen te kai esōthen te kai exōthen, hina mē monon legō alla kai thelō,
   hina mē monon legōmai Christianos alla kai heurethō. ean gar heurethō, kai
   legesthai dunamai, kai tote pistos einai, hotan kosmō mē phainōmai. 3. ouden
   phainomenon kalon; ho gar theos hēmōn Iēsous Christos en patri ōn mallon
   phainetai. ou persmonēs to ergon, alla megethous estin ho Christianismos,
   hotan misētai hupo kosmou.

    IV

   1. Egō graphō pasais tais ekklēsiais, kai entellomai pasin, hoti egō hekōn
   huper theou apothnēskō, eanper humeis mē kōlusēte. parakalō humas, mē eunoia
   akairos genēsthe moi. aphete me thēriōn einai boran, di’ hōn enestin theou
   epituchein. sitos eimi theou kai di’ odontōn thēriōn alēthomai, hina
   katharos artos heurethō tou Christou. 2. mallon kolkeusae ta thēria, hina
   moi taphos genōntai kai mēden katalipōsi tōn tou sōmatos mou, hina mē
   koimētheis barus tini genōmai. tote esomai mathētēs alēthōs Iēsou Christou,
   hote oude to sōma mou ho kosmos opsetai. litaneusate ton Christon huper
   emou, hina dia tōn organōn toutōn thusia heurethō. 3. ouch hōs Petros kai
   Paulos diatassomai humin. ekeinoi apostoloi, egō katakritos; ekeinoi
   eleutheroi, egō de mechri nun doulos. all’ ean pathō, apeleutheros
   genhēsomai Iēsou Christou kai anastēsomai en autō eleutheros. nun manthanō
   dedemenos mēden epithumein.

    V

   1. Apo Surias mechri ῾Rōmēs thēriomachō, dia gēs kai thalassēs, nuktos kai
   hēmeras, dedemenos deka leopardois, ho estin stratiōtikon tagma; ohi
   adikēmasin autōn mallon mathēteuomai, all’ ou para touto dedikaiōmai. 2.
   onaimēn tōn thēriōn tōn emoi hētoimasmenōn kai euchomai sutoma moi
   heurethēnai; ha kai kolakeusō, suntomōs me kataphagein, ouch hōsper tinōn
   deilainomena ouch hēpsanto. kan auta de akonta mē thelēsē, egō prosbiasomai.
   3. sungnōmēn moi echete; thi moi sumpherei, egō ginōskō, nun archomai
   mathētēs einai, mēthen me zēlōsai tōn horatōn, hina Iēsou Christou epituchō.
   pur kai stauros thēriōn te sustaseis, anatomai, diaireseis, skrpismoi
   osteōn, sunkopē melōn, alesmoi holou tou sōmatos, kakai kolaseis tou
   diabolou ep’ eme erchesthōsan, monon hina Iēsou Christou epituchō.

    VI

   1. Ouden moi ōphelēsei ta perata tou kosmou oude hai basileiai tou aiōnos
   toutou. kalon moi apothanein eis Christon Iēsoun, ē basileuein tōn peratōn
   tēs gēs. ekeinon zētō, ton huper hēmōn apothanonta; ekeinon thelō, ton di’
   hēmas anastanta. ho de toketos moi epikeitai. 2. sungnōte moi, adelphoi; mē
   empodisēe moi zēsai, mē thelēsēte me apothanein; ton tou theou thelonta
   einai kosmō mē charisēsthe, mēde hulē exapatēsēte; aphete me katharon phōs
   labein; ekei paragenomenos anthrōpos esomai. 3. epitrepsate moi mimētēn
   einai tou pathous tou theou mou. ei tis auton en heautō echei, noēsatō ho
   thelō, kai sumpatheitō moi eidōs ta sunechonta me.

    VII

   1. Ho archōn tou aiōnos toutou diarpasai me bouletai kai tēn eis theon mou
   gnōmēn diaphtheirai. mēdeis oun tōn parontōn humōn boētheitō autō; mallon
   emou ginesthe, toutestin tou theou. mē laleite Iēsoun Christon, kosmon de
   epithumeite. 2. baskania en humin mē katoikeitō. mēd’ an egō parōn parakalō
   humas, peisthēte moi; toutois de mallon peisthēte, hois graphō humin. zōn
   gar estaurōtai, kai ouk estin en emoi pur philoulon; Deuro pros ton patera.
   3. ouch hēdomai trophē thelō, ho estin sarx Iēsou Christou tou ek spermatos
   Daueid, kai poma thelō to haima autou, ho estin agapē aphthartos.

    VIII

   1. Ouketi thelō kata anthrōpous zēn. touto de estai, ean humeis thelēsēte.
   thelēsae, hina kai humeis thelēthēte. 2. di’ oligōn grammatōn aitoumai
   humas; pisteusate moi. Iēsous de Christos humin