Martyrdom of Polycarp 13.1

Anonymous · Martyrdom of Polycarp · ca. 156–160 · Smyrna · Read in context

Summary: The crowd quickly gathered wood for the fire.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:328

Ταῦτα οὖν μετὰ τοσούτου τάχους ἐγένετο, θάττον ἢ ἐλέγετο, τῶν ὄχλων παραχρῆμα συναγόντων ἔκ τε τῶν ἐργαστηρίων καὶ βαλανείων ξύλα καὶ φρύγανα, μάλιστα Ἰουδαίων προθύμως, ὡς ἔθος αὐτοῖς, εἰς ταῦτα ὑπουργούντων.

English · Claude translation

These things happened with such speed, faster than it can be told, as the crowds at once gathered wood and brushwood from the workshops and baths, the Jews especially helping eagerly with this, as is their custom.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:328 · 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 5:1037d–1040a (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.
Topics: Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

“As is their custom”: a polemical remark; see the note on 12.2.

Cite this passage

Mart. Pol. 13.1 (PG 5:1037d–1040a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/mart-pol/13/1/).

Plain text

Mart. Pol. 13.1 (PG 5:1037d–1040a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/mart-pol/13/1/).

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