For our God, Jesus Christ, was, according to the appointment of God, conceived in the womb by Mary, of the seed of David, but by the Holy Spirit. He was born and baptized, that by His passion He might purify the water.
Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians
Chapter XVIII
Let us therefore do all things as those who have Him dwelling in us, that we may be His temples, and He may be in us as God. Let Christ speak in us, even as He did in Paul. Let the Holy Spirit teach us to speak the things of Christ in like manner as He did.
Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians
Chapter XV
Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, first did and then taught, as Luke testifies, “whose praise is in the Gospel through all the Churches.”
Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians
Chapter XV
You are initiated into the mysteries of the Gospel with Paul, the holy, the martyred, inasmuch as he was “a chosen vessel;” at whose feet may I be found, and at the feet of the rest of the saints, when I shall attain to Jesus Christ, who is always mindful of you in His prayers.
Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians
Chapter XII
…being stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the building of God the Father, and drawn up on high by the instrument of Jesus Christ, which is the cross, making use of the Holy Spirit as a rope, while your faith was the means by which you ascended, and your love the way which led up to God.
Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians
Chapter IX
But our Physician is the only true God, the unbegotten and unapproachable, the Lord of all, the Father and Begetter of the only-begotten Son. We have also as a Physician the Lord our God, Jesus the Christ, the only-begotten Son and Word, before time began, but who afterwards became also man, of Mary the virgin. For “the Word was made flesh.” Being incorporeal, He was in the body; being impassible, He was in a passible body; being immortal, He was in a mortal body; being life, He became subject to corruption, that He might free our souls from death and corruption, and heal them, and might restore them to health, when they were diseased with ungodliness and wicked lusts.
Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians
Chapter VII
There is one Physician who is possessed of both flesh and spirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; both of Mary and of God; first passible and then impassible—even Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians
Chapter VII
It is manifest, therefore, that we should look upon the bishop even as we would upon the Lord Himself.
Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians
Chapter VI
Do you beloved, be careful to be subject to the bishop, and the presbyters and the deacons. For he that is subject to these is obedient to Christ who has appointed them; but he that is disobedient to these is disobedient to Christ Jesus.
Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians
Chapter V
Therefore it is fitting that you also should run together in accordance with the will of the bishop who by God’s appointment rules over you.
Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians
Chapter IV