Ignatius and Polycarp
Ignatius wrote letters while being taken to this city for execution.
What is Rome?
Polycarp held this church position in Smyrna.
What is bishop?
According to Ignatius, Jesus Christ was born of the flesh to this human woman.
Who is Mary?
Polycarp tells Christians to be careful about their speech and not to engage in this destructive behavior against others.
What is gossip or slander?
Ignatius was the bishop of this city.
What is Antioch?
This bishop of Smyrna wrote a letter to the church at Philippi.
Who is Polycarp?
Ignatius held this church position in Antioch.
What is bishop?
Ignatius teaches that Jesus was descended from this famous Old Testament king.
Who is David?
Polycarp warns Christians particularly against this vice associated with wealth.
What is greed or love of money?
Polycarp was bishop of this city?
What is Smyrna?
Ignatius wrote this letter to Christians in Rome, asking them not to interfere with his martyrdom.
What is the Letter to the Romans?
This position in the church served as elders alongside the bishop.
Who were presbyters?
According to Ignatius, Jesus Christ was physically crucified under the authory of this Roman governor.
The apostolic fathers repeated teach Christians to take care of these two vulnerable groups of people.
Who are orphans and widows?
Polycarp wrote to Christians in this Macedonian (modern Greece) city.
What is Philippi?
Ignatius refers to this as the "medicine of immortality."
What is the Eucharist (Communion)?
This leadership position served as ministers under the bishop and presbytery
Who were deacons?
Polycarp says Christians are saved through Jesus Christ, who is described as our Lord and this.
What is Savior?
Polycarp encourages Christians to pray for these people rather than seek revenge against them.
Who are enemies or those who persecute?
Ignatius was martyred in this city.
In the Letter to the Romans, Ignatius describes himself as this grain and says he is ground by the teeth of wild beasts.
What is wheat?
He is the ultimate leader of the bishops, prebyters, deacons, and all Christians.
Who is Jesus Christ?
Ignatius emphasizes that Jesus truly had a physical body and truly suffered and died, opposing this teaching that Christ only appeared to be human.
What is Docetism?
Seeing the possibility for disagreements and division, Ignatius and Polycarp frequently encourage this.
What is unity?
Who is Germanicus?