Sophia Scriptura

To the Philippians 4.2

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

Summary: Wives are to be taught to live in faith, love, and purity, to cherish their husbands, and to raise their children in the fear of God.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:286–288

ἔπειτα καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας ἡμῶν ἐν τῇ δοθείσῃ αὐταῖς πίστει καὶ ἀγάπῃ καὶ ἁγνείᾳ στεργούσας τοὺς ἑαυτῶν ἄνδρας ἐν πάσῃ ἀληθείᾳ καὶ ἀγαπώσας πάντας ἐξ ἴσου ἐν πάσῃ ἐγκρατείᾳ, καὶ τὰ τέκνα παιδεύειν τὴν παιδείαν τοῦ φόβου τοῦ θεοῦ·

English · Claude translation

then also our wives, to walk in the faith given to them and in love and purity, cherishing their own husbands in all faithfulness and loving all others equally in all self-control, and to train their children in the discipline of the fear of God;

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:286–288 · 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 5:1008d–1009a (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.
Scripture
Topics
Marriage, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • The construction continues from 4.1: “let us teach … our wives to walk …”
  • “In all faithfulness” (ἐν πάσῃ ἀληθείᾳ): literally “in all truth”; here the truthfulness of fidelity in marriage.

Cite this passage

Pol. Phil. 4.2 (PG 5:1008d–1009a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/4/2/).

Plain text
Pol. Phil. 4.2 (PG 5:1008d–1009a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/4/2/).

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