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The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians (Short Version)
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Chapter 9: You have ignored false teachers.
NEVERTHELESS: I have heard of some who have come to you with false doctrine. You did not allow them to spread it among you but blocked your ears so that you wouldn't accept what they were trying to plant, as if you were stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the building of God the Father, and lifted on high by the instrument of Jesus Christ, which is the cross, using the Holy Spirit as a rope, with your faith being the means by which you ascended, and your love the path that led to God. You, therefore, along with all your companions, are God-bearers, temple-bearers, Christ-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in every way with the commandments of Jesus Christ, in whom I also rejoice that I have been deemed worthy, through this letter, to converse and rejoice with you, because concerning your Christian life you love nothing but God alone.