Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church of God the
Father, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is at Philadelphia, which
has obtained mercy through love, and is established in the harmony of
God, and rejoiceth unceasingly, [882] in the passion of our Lord Jesus,
and is filled with all mercy through His resurrection; which I salute
in the blood of Jesus Christ, who is our eternal and enduring joy,
especially to those who are in unity with the bishop, and the
presbyters, and the deacons, who have been appointed by the will of God
the Father, through the Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to His own
will, has firmly established His Church upon a rock, by a spiritual
building, not made with hands, against which the winds and the floods
have beaten, yet have not been able to overthrow [883] yea, and may
spiritual wickedness never be able to do so, but be thoroughly weakened
by the power of Jesus Christ our Lord.