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Martyrdom of Polycarp 14.3

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

Summary: Polycarp ended his prayer with praise to God through Christ, the eternal High Priest.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:332

διὰ τοῦτο καὶ περὶ πάντων σὲ αἰνῶ, σὲ εὐλογῶ, σὲ δοξάζω διὰ τοῦ αἰωνίου καὶ ἐπουρανίου ἀρχιερέως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἀγαπητοῦ σου παιδός, διʼ οὗ σοὶ σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ πνεύματι ἁγίῳ δόξα καὶ νῦν καὶ εἰς τοὺς μέλλοντας αἰῶνας. ἀμήν.

English · Claude translation

For this reason, and for all things, I praise you, I bless you, I glorify you, through the eternal and heavenly High Priest Jesus Christ, your beloved Servant, through whom be glory to you, with him and the Holy Spirit, both now and for the ages to come. Amen.”

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 25:332 · 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
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
Topics
Prayer, Trinity, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The closing words give glory to God “with him [Christ] and the Holy Spirit.” Eusebius's quotation of this passage (Hist. eccl. 4.15.35) reads “in the Holy Spirit,” and some scholars think the wording was adjusted in later use.
  • “High Priest” (ἀρχιερέως) is in Lake's text; some manuscripts and older translations lack it.

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Mart. Pol. 14.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/mart-pol/14/3/).

Plain text
Mart. Pol. 14.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/mart-pol/14/3/).

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