To the Philippians 3.1

Summary: Polycarp explains that he writes about righteousness only because the Philippians asked him to.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:286

Ταῦτα, ἀδελφοί, οὐκ ἐμαυτῷ ἐπιτρέψας γράφω ὑμῖν περὶ τῆς δικαιοσύνης, ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ ὑμεῖς προεπεκαλέσασθέ με.

I am writing these things to you about righteousness, brothers, not on my own initiative, but because you first invited me to.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:286 · 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
Also in: PG 5:1008b (found by text match)
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.

Pol. Phil. 3.1 (PG 5:1008b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/3/1/).

Plain text

Pol. Phil. 3.1 (PG 5:1008b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/3/1/).