To the Philippians 3.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:286

οὔτε γὰρ ἐγὼ οὔτε ἄλλος ὅμοιος ἐμοὶ δύναται κατακολουθῆσαι τῇ σοφίᾳ τοῦ μακαρίου καὶ ἐνδόξου Παύλου, ὃς γενόμενος ἐν ὑμῖν κατὰ πρόσωπον τῶν τότε ἀνθρώπων ἐδίδαξεν ἀκριβῶς καὶ βεβαίως τὸν περὶ ἀληθείας λόγον, ὃς καὶ ἀπὼν ὑμῖν ἔγραψεν ἐπιστολάς, εἰς ἃς ἐὰν ἐγκύπτητε, δυνηθήσεσθε οἰκοδομεῖσθαι εἰς τὴν δοθεῖσαν ὑμῖν πίστιν·

English · Claude translation

For neither I nor anyone else like me can keep pace with the wisdom of the blessed and glorious Paul, who, when he was among you, taught the word of truth accurately and firmly face to face with the people of that time, and who also, when he was absent, wrote you letters; if you study them closely, you will be able to be built up in the faith that has been given to you,

About this passage

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.

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

“Letters” (ἐπιστολάς) is plural; whether Polycarp knew more than one letter of Paul to the Philippians or uses the plural loosely for one letter is debated.

Cite this passage

Pol. Phil. 3.2 (PG 5:1008b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/3/2/).

Plain text

Pol. Phil. 3.2 (PG 5:1008b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/3/2/).