The Apostolic Fathers

Epistle to the Trallians (LongVersion)

by Ignatius
13 chapters Read aloud, 15 min With the Greek text word study in 13 of 13 paragraphs
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Chapter 1: Recognition of Their Excellence

I know that you possess an unblameable and sincere mind in patience, and that not only for present use, but as a permanent possession, as Polybius your bishop has shown me, who has come to Smyrna by the will of God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, His Son, with the cooperation of the Spirit, and so sympathized in the joy which I, who am bound in Christ Jesus, possess, that I beheld your whole multitude in Him. Having therefore received through him the testimony of your goodwill according to God, I gloried to find that you were the followers of Jesus Christ the Savior.