Apostolic Fathers
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✚ On the textual transmission, the modalist reading, and the man writing in chains — a Catholic response concerning the post-apostolic witness. Article II · The Greg Stafford Response Series Ignatius of Antioch wrote in chains, on a forced march from his city to the beasts of the Colosseum, choosing — under conditions of ultimate…
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A Catholic patristics response engaging modern subordinationist readings of St. Ignatius of Antioch — the archives passage of Philadelphians 8:2, the Word-from-silence of Magnesians 8:2, the reverence of the bishop, the modalism charge against Ephesians 3:2, and the question of apostolic continuity. Argued from cumulative force, with the strongest opposing readings acknowledged.
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Patristics · Catholic Apologetics Lord Jesus Christ Reigns · 5 May 2026 In Brief In a single short paragraph of his Letter to the Philadelphians, Ignatius of Antioch left a sentence that contemporary apologists have read as proof that the early Church abandoned Scripture for episcopal authority. Read with the Greek in view, and against…
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