Ignatius to Hero
Anonymous Pseudo-Ignatian compiler
Chapter 4
About this work
A pseudonymous letter presenting Ignatius’s counsel to a successor named Hero, preserved within the expanded Ignatian corpus rather than the commonly accepted collection of seven letters.
- Author
- Anonymous Pseudo-Ignatian compiler
- Traditional attribution
- Ignatius of Antioch
- Date
- Probably late 4th–early 5th century
- Origin
- Unknown
- Genre
- Pseudonymous Letter
The letter is not generally accepted as an authentic work of Ignatius.
Chapter IV.—Servants and women are not to be despised.
Be not ashamed of servants, for we possess