Sophia Scriptura

To the Philippians 10.2

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

Summary: Do good without delay, since almsgiving delivers from death, and live blamelessly so that the Lord is not blasphemed.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 24:294–296

Cum possitis benefacere, nolite differre, quia eleemosyna de morte liberat. Omnes vobis invicem subiecti estote, conversationem vestram irreprensibilem habentes in gentibus, ut ex bonis operibus vestris et vos laudem accipiatis et dominus in vobis non blasphemetur.

English · Claude translation

When you are able to do good, do not put it off, because “almsgiving delivers from death.” All of you be subject to one another, “keeping your conduct blameless among the Gentiles,” so that from your good works both you may receive praise and the Lord may not be blasphemed because of you.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:294–296 · 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 Latin version (the Greek of this passage is lost), text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912).
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Tob 4:10 (Tobit) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Almsgiving delivers from death” quotes Tobit 4:10 (compare Tob 12:9), a book outside the Protestant canon.
  • “Because of you” (in vobis): literally “in you” or “among you.”

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (OCR error in the digitized Latin; capitals lost in the digitization restored): dilferre → differre; volris → vobis; estotc → estote; cum / omnes → Cum / Omnes.

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Pol. Phil. 10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/10/2/).

Plain text
Pol. Phil. 10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/10/2/).

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