Friday, August 2, 2013

Ignatius of Antioch: "These men perish in their disputatiousness"


“[THE Docetics] abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not admit that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, the flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in His graciousness, raised from the dead. And so denying the gift of God, these men perish in their disputatiousness. It would be better for them to love and to rise again. (It is well for you to keep away from such persons and not even to speak of them in private or public. It is better to keep to the prophets and especially to the Gospel in which the passion is presented and the resurrection is an accomplished fact.”

~St. Ignatius of Antioch (A.D. 50 - c. 100):  Epistle to the Smyrnaeans, Chap. 6:3-7.