To the Philippians 2.1
Summary: Serve God faithfully, believing in the God who raised Christ, who now reigns and will come to judge the living and the dead.
Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:284
Διὸ ἀναζωσάμενοι τὰς ὀσφύας ὑμῶν δουλεύσατε τῷ θεῷ ἐν φόβῳ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ, ἀπολιπόντες τὴν κενὴν ματαιολογίαν καὶ τὴν τῶν πολλῶν πλάνην, πιστεύσαντες εἰς τὸν ἐγείραντα τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν καὶ δόντα αὐτῷ δόξαν καὶ θρόνον ἐκ δεξιῶν αὐτοῦ· ᾧ ὑπετάγη τὰ πάντα ἐπουράνια καὶ ἐπίγεια, ᾧ πᾶσα πνοὴ λατρεύει, ὃς ἔρχεται κριτὴς ζώντων καὶ νεκρῶν, οὗ τὸ αἷμα ἐκζητήσει ὁ θεὸς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀπειθούντων αὐτῷ.
English · Claude translation
“Therefore gird up your loins” and “serve God in fear” and truth, leaving behind empty, idle talk and the error of the many, “believing in him who raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and gave him glory” and a throne at his right hand; to whom all things in heaven and on earth were made subject, whom every breath serves, who is coming as judge of the living and the dead, whose blood God will require of those who disobey him.
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Notes
Translation notes
- “Of those who disobey him”: “him” may be God or Christ.
- “Whose blood God will require”: the language of avenging a killing (compare Gen 9:5; Luke 11:50–51).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text): οὖ τὸ → οὗ τὸ.
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Pol. Phil. 2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/2/1/).
Plain text
Pol. Phil. 2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/2/1/).
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