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To the Philippians, inscription

Polycarp of Smyrna · To the Philippians · ca. 110–135 · Smyrna · Read in context

Summary: Polycarp and his fellow presbyters greet the church at Philippi.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:282

Πολύκαρπος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ πρεσβύτεροι τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ τῇ παροικούσῃ Φιλίππους· ἔλεος ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη παρὰ θεοῦ παντοκράτορος καὶ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν πληθυνθείη.

English · Claude translation

Polycarp and the presbyters with him, to the church of God that sojourns at Philippi: may mercy and peace from God Almighty and Jesus Christ our Savior be multiplied to you.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:282 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 282–301 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912), 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 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.
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Notes

Translation notes

  • “That sojourns” (παροικούσῃ): the church lives in the city as a resident alien lives in a foreign land; the same verb opens 1 Clement and the Martyrdom of Polycarp.

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Pol. Phil. 0 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/0/).

Plain text
Pol. Phil. 0 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/0/).

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