Letters of Ignatius 21

1If Jesus Christ should count me worthy through your prayer, and if it should be God’s will, then in the second tract that I intend to write to you, I will further set before you the dispensation of which I have begun to speak, relating to the new man Jesus Christ. This consists in faith toward him and love toward him, in his passion and resurrection,

2especially if the Lord should reveal anything to me. Assemble yourselves together in common, each one of you severally, person by person, in grace, in one faith and one Jesus Christ, who according to the flesh was of David’s race, who is Son of Man and Son of God, so that you may obey the bishop and the presbytery without distraction of mind; breaking one bread, which is the medicine of immortality and the antidote that we should not die but live forever in Jesus Christ.