The Epistles of Saint Ignatius (1.5.1)

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For if I in a short time gained such fellowship[*] with your bishop as was not human but spiritual, how much more do I count you blessed who are so united with him as the Church is with Jesus Christ, and as Jesus Christ is with the Father, that all things may sound together in unison!

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