Ignatius of Antioch

“ Let not the widows live a life of pleasure, lest they wax wanton against the word. [43] Be subject to Cæsar in everything in which subjection implies no [spiritual] danger.
Provoke not those that rule over you to wrath, that you may give no occasion against yourselves to those that seek for it. But as to the practice of magic, or the impure love of boys, or murder, it is superfluous to write to you, since such vices are forbidden to be committed even by the Gentiles. I do not issue commands on these points as if I were an apostle; but, as your fellow-servant, I put you in mind of them. ”

“ Let the deacons know of what dignity they are, and let them study to be blameless, that they may be the followers of Christ. Let the people be subject to the presbyters and the deacons. Let the virgins know to whom they have consecrated themselves.
Chapter IX.—Duties of husbands, wives, parents, and children.
Let the husbands love their wives, remembering that, at the creation, one woman, and not many, was given to one man. Let the wives honour their husbands, as their own flesh ”

“ He also that confesseth Christ, yet not as the Son of the Maker of the world, but of some other unknown [23] being, different from Him whom the law and the prophets have proclaimed, this man is an instrument of the devil. And he that rejects the incarnation, and is ashamed of the cross for which I am in bonds, this man is antichrist. [24] Moreover, he who affirms Christ to be a mere man is accursed, according to the [declaration of the] prophet, [25] since he puts not his trust in God, but in man. ”