Ignatius on Apostolic Authority: Key Differences Explained!

Lesson Transcript

Even Ignatius, who then clearly does speak on three different offices in the way he describes, he makes a huge difference between that level of authority, between the apostleship of those apostles and the later people. And that authority is different. In his letter to the Romans, again, to the Romans, he says in chapter four, this is from Ignatius, "I do not, like Peter and Paul, issue commands to you. They were apostles. I am a convict." Yeah. And so, yeah, yeah, it's it's a beautiful understanding there.

And if you try to somehow make this some kind of authority, that they have that kind of apostolic authority, you're really not being true to the text of the people that were expressing up.