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To the Trallians
St Ignatius of Antioch, Lake, Loeb 1912
Chapter 5
Reason for simple teaching
Am I not able to write to you heavenly things? Yes, but I am afraid that I should do you harm “seeing you are babes.” Pardon me, for I refrain lest you be choked by what you cannot receive.
For I myself, though I am in bonds and can understand heavenly things, and the places of the angels and the gatherings of principalities, and “things seen and unseen,” not for this am I a disciple even now, for much is lacking to us, that we may not lack God.