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Die sieben Briefe des Ignatius von Antiochien (BKV)

20. Kap. Ignatius verspricht einen zweiten Brief über den Heilsplan Gottes an die Epheser, die er nochmals zur Eintracht mahnt.

1. Wenn Jesus Christus durch euer Gebet mich würdigt, und es sein Wille ist, werde ich in dem zweiten Briefe, den ich euch zu schreiben vorhabe, euch des weiteren darlegen, was ich begonnen habe über den Heilsplan in Beziehung auf den neuen Menschen Jesus Christus, in seinem Glauben und in seiner Liebe, in seinem Leiden und seiner Auferstehung. 2. Ganz besonders (werde ich es tun), wenn der Herr mir offenbart, dass ihr alle Mann für Mann gemeinsam in der Gnade zufolge des Namens euch versammelt in einem Glauben und in Jesus Christus, der dem Fleische nach aus dem Geschlechte Davids stammt¹, dem Sohne des Menschen und dem Sohne Gottes, auf dass ihr untertänig seid dem Bischof und dem Presbyterium in ungeteilter Gesinnung, ein Brot brechend, das ist ein Heilmittel zur Unsterblichkeit, ein Gegengift, dass wir nicht sterben, sondern leben in Jesus Christus immerdar.

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Epistles of Ignatius

Chapter XX.--Promise of another letter.

If Jesus Christ shall graciously permit me through your prayers, and if it be His will, I shall, in a second little work which I will write to you, make further manifest to you [the nature of] the dispensation of which I have begun [to treat], with respect to the new man, Jesus Christ, in His faith and in His love, in His suffering and in His resurrection. Especially [will I do this ¹ ] if the Lord make known to me that ye come together man by man in common through grace, individually, ² in one faith, and in Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David according to the flesh, being both the Son of man and the Son of God, so that ye obey the bishop and the presbytery with an undivided mind, breaking one and the same bread, which is the medicine of immortality, and the antidote to prevent us from dying, but [which causes] that we should live for ever in Jesus Christ.

Stand fast, brethren, in the faith of Jesus Christ, and in His love, in His passion, and in His resurrection. Do ye all come together in common, and individually, ³ through grace, in one faith of God the Father, and of Jesus Christ His only-begotten Son, and "the first-born of every creature," ⁴ but of the seed of David according to the flesh, being under the guidance of the Comforter, in obedience to the bishop and the presbytery with an undivided mind, breaking one and the same bread, which is the medicine of immortality, and the antidote which prevents us from dying, but a cleansing remedy driving away evil, [which causes] that we should live in God through Jesus Christ.