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Letters of Ignatius 49

Real Suffering Proves Christ's Reality

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1But if, as certain godless people—that is, unbelievers—say, he suffered only in appearance, while they themselves are mere appearances, why am I in chains? And why do I also desire to fight with wild beasts? Then I die for nothing. Truly, then, I lie against the Lord.

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