Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I:
IGNATIUS: Chapter II.—I rejoice in your...

Chapter II.—I rejoice in your messengers.

Since, then, I have had the privilege of seeing you, through Damas your most worthy bishop, and through your worthy presbyters Bassus and Apollonius, and through my fellow-servant the deacon Sotio, whose friendship may I ever enjoy, inasmuch as he is subject to the bishop as to the grace of God, and to the presbytery as to the law of Jesus Christ, [I now write 638 to you].

Since, then, I have had the privilege of seeing you, through Damas your most worthy 639 bishop, and through your worthy 640 presbyters Bassus and Apollonius, and through my fellow-servant the deacon Sotio, whose friendship may I ever enjoy, 641 inasmuch as he, by the grace of God, is subject to the bishop and presbytery, in the law of Jesus Christ, [I now write 642 to you].

Footnotes

The apodosis is here wanting in the original, but must evidently be supplied in some such way as above.

Literally, “worthy of God.”

Literally, “worthy of God.”

Literally, “whom may I enjoy.”

The apodosis is here wanting in the original, but must evidently be supplied in some such way as above.