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The Letter of St Ignatius of Antioch to the Romans (continued)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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Life of the Spirit , Volume 14 , Issue 164 , February 1960 , pp. 371 - 373
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Copyright © 1960 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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1 By martyrdom he would be bom to eternal life, which they would frustrate if they secured him a reprieve and a continuation of this mortal life, which would be as good as death to him.

2 This could be translated, and has been so taken, ‘My love (i.e. Christ) has been crucified’; but this does not suit the Greek or the sense so well.

3 Literally ‘according to the flesh'. According to the spirit all the churches everywhere lay on his road, because spiritually speaking both his road and theirs was Christ, who said ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life'.