Greeting

Ignatius, also called God-bearer, to the Church of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ which is in Philadelphia of Asia, having received mercy and established in the harmony of God and rejoicing in the passion of our Lord without wavering and fully assured in his resurrection in all mercy—which Church I greet in the blood of Jesus Christ, which is eternal joy and lasting, especially if they are at one with the bishop and the presbyters and deacons with him, appointed according to the will of Jesus Christ, whom he has established in firmness by his Holy Spirit.