One Physician - Ignatius of Antioch (Greek)

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 one high-resolution digital file:

• Greek — the original wording of Ignatius, in flowing script
  

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