Warning on false teachers

In chapters 7-9 Ignatius proceeds to warn his readers of the danger of false teachers. In fact, Ignatius praises the church in Ephesus for its strength in matters of doctrine, and for the way it has already not suffered false teachers. Ignatius actually goes as far as to say that he feels himself to be inferior to the church in Ephesus.

There is little indication, yet, of what the nature of the false teaching Ignatius is concerned with is. However, through his stress on the human and the divine natures of Christ one senses that his concern is Christological.