Martyrdom of Polycarp 12.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Polycarp remained joyful and calm, and the herald announced his confession to the crowd.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:326–328

Ταῦτα δὲ καὶ ἕτερα πλείονα λέγων θάρσους καὶ χαρᾶς ἐνεπίμπλατο, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ χάριτος ἐπληροῦτο, ὥστε οὐ μόνον μὴ συμπεσεῖν ταραχθέντα ὑπὸ τῶν λεγομένων πρὸς αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον τὸν ἀνθύπατον ἐκστῆναι, πέμψαι τε τὸν ἑαυτοῦ κήρυκα ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ σταδίου κηρῦξαι τρίς· Πολύκαρπος ὡμολόγησεν ἑαυτὸν Χριστιανὸν εἶναι.

English · Claude translation

As he said these and many other things, he was filled with courage and joy, and his face was full of grace, so that not only did he not collapse, troubled by what was said to him, but on the contrary the proconsul was astonished and sent his own herald into the middle of the stadium to proclaim three times, “Polycarp has confessed that he is a Christian.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:326–328 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 312–345 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Also in

PG 5:1037b (found by text match)

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 25, 1913); made independently of existing English translations.

Scripture

Acts 6:15 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Cite this passage

Mart. Pol. 12.1 (PG 5:1037b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/mart-pol/12/1/).

Plain text

Mart. Pol. 12.1 (PG 5:1037b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/mart-pol/12/1/).