Ignatius to Polycarp 2.3

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Sun, 13 Jul 1997 09:04:34 -0500 (CDT)

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I am having some trouble understanding this sentence: hO KAIROS APAITEI
SE, hWS KYBERNHTAI ANEMOUS KAI hWS CEIMAZOMENOS LIMENA, EIS TO QEOU
EPITUXEIN. I have translated as follows: The time demands you, as pilots
[demand] winds and one tossed by storms [demands] a harbor, in order to
attain God. Is Polycarp being compared to favorable winds and a harbor?
What attains to God? KAIROS? If so, I find it a little puzzling how "the
time" would attain God.

David R. Mills
ESL Instructor
Creighton University
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