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Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.
Polycarp in Print
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15 Pages
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Chapter IX. — Patience inculcated.
I exhort you all, therefore, to yield obedience to the word of righteousness, and to exercise all patience, such as ye have seen [set] before your eyes, not only in the case of the blessed Ignatius, and Zosimus, and Rufus, but also in others among yourselves, and in Paul himself, and the rest of the apostles. [This do] in the assurance that all these have not run [390] in vain, but in faith and righteousness, and that they are [now] in their due place in the presence of the Lord, with whom also they suffered. For they loved not this present world, but Him who died for us, and for our sakes was raised again by God from the dead.
[390] Comp. Phil. ii. 16; Gal. ii. 2.
Chapter X. — Exhortation to the practice of virtue. [391]
Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood, [392] and being attached to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the meekness of the Lord in your intercourse with one another, and despising no one. When you can do good, defer it not, because "alms delivers from death." [393] Be all of you subject one to another [394] "having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles," [395] that ye may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! [396] Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct.
[391] This and the two following chapters are preserved only in a Latin version. [See Jacobson, ad loc.]
[392] Comp. 1 Pet. ii. 17.
[393] Tobit iv. 10, Tobit xii. 9.
[394] Comp. 1 Pet. v. 5.
[395] 1 Pet. ii. 12.
[396] Isa. lii. 5.
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