Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 7th March 2017 in Lent | Lent,great lent,fasting,early church fathers,devotional,daily reading,Ignatius,Ignatius of Antioch: Letter to the Magnesians
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law,” Ignatius says, “we acknowledge that we have not received grace”, which you can see is a statement echoing Paul’s sentiments throughout his letters to the churches – “you are not under
law, but under grace” as he wrote in Romans 6:14 (and Rom 7:4,6; Gal 4:21 etc).
This whole chapter is pretty much a short summary of Paul’s teaching on the
law and how we Christians are no longer bound by it; "You who want to be justified by the
law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace" (Gal 5:4), or as Ignatius phrases it, "it is absurd to profess Christ Jesus, and to Judaize" – the message is consistent, Christia...