Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr

Wherefore I also, hearing of your faith that is in the Lord Jesus, and of your love towards all the saints, ¹⁶Cease not to give thanks for you, making commemoration of you in my prayers, ¹⁷That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of him: ¹⁸The eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know what the hope is of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. ¹⁹And what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us, who believe according to the operation of the might of his power, ²⁰Which he wrought in Christ, raising him up from the dead, and setting him on his right hand in the heavenly places. ²¹Above all principality, and power, and virtue, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. ²²And he hath subjected all things under his feet, and hath made him head over all the church, ²³Which is his body, and the fulness of him who is filled all in all.

²O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens. ³Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger. ⁴For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded. ⁵What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest hi? ⁶Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour: ⁷And hast set him over the works of thy hands.

℟ Thou hast set him over the works of thy hands.

And I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God. ⁹But he that shall deny me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God. ¹⁰And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but to him that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven. ¹¹And when they shall bring you into the synagogues, and to magistrates and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say; ¹²For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you must say.