The Apostolic Fathers

Epistles of Ignatius

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Book III · Chapter 7: Serious Instructions to Hero, the Future Bishop of Antioch

Keep God in remembrance, and you shall never sin. Be not double-minded in your prayers; for blessed is he who does not doubt. For I believe in the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in His only-begotten Son, that God will show me, Hero, upon my throne. Therefore, hasten your course. I charge you before the God of the universe, and before Christ, and in the presence of the Holy Spirit, and of the ministering ranks of angels, to keep safe that deposit which I and Christ have committed to you, and do not judge yourself unworthy of those things which have been shown by God to me concerning you. I hand over to you the Church of Antioch. I have commended you to Polycarp in the Lord Jesus Christ.