One Physician

One Physician - Ignatius of Antioch

Around AD 107, a bishop by the name of Ignatius was marched under guard from Antioch to Rome to be executed for his faith. Along the way he wrote letters to the churches he passed. In his letter to the Ephesians, he paused to describe Christ in a single rushing breath of paradoxes: flesh and spirit, begotten and unbegotten, God in man, true life in death.

Modern scholarship is unsure if Ignatius was drawing on an existing hymn or penned his own in the moment, but the result is one of the earliest Christ-hymns outside the New Testament, written by a man who knew he was walking toward his own death and wanted the churches to hold fast to who Jesus truly was.

This is that passage, set as a finished print you can hang on a wall.

You'll receive three high-resolution digital files:

• English - the full passage in clean, readable English
• Greek - the original wording of Ignatius, in flowing script
• English with Greek - each English line paired with its Greek beneath it, for those who want the ancient words alongside the modern

Each is designed in warm, archival tones - parchment, ink, and ochre - and built to print cleanly at standard sizes. Download once; print as often as you like, at home or through a print shop.

A fragment of the second century, ready for your study, hallway, or church.

Ignatius of Antioch · Letter to the Ephesians 7:2 · c. AD 107