To the Philippians 5.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:288

ὁμοίως διάκονοι ἄμεμπτοι κατενώπιον αὐτοῦ τῆς δικαιοσύνης ὡς θεοῦ καὶ Χριστοῦ διάκονοι καὶ οὐκ ἀνθρώπων· μὴ διάβολοι, μὴ δίλογοι, ἀφιλάργυροι, ἐγκρατεῖς περὶ πάντα, εὔσπλαγχνοι, ἐπιμελεῖς, πορευόμενοι κατὰ τὴν ἀλήθειαν τοῦ κυρίου, ὃς ἐγένετο διάκονος πάντων· ᾧ ἐὰν εὐαρεστήσωμεν ἐν τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι, ἀποληψόμεθα καὶ τὸν μέλλοντα, καθὼς ὑπέσχετο ἡμῖν ἐγεῖραι ἡμᾶς ἐκ νεκρῶν, καὶ ὅτι ἐὰν πολιτευσώμεθα ἀξίως αὐτοῦ, καὶ συμβασιλεύσομεν αὐτῷ, εἴγε πιστεύομεν.

English · Claude translation

Likewise the deacons must be blameless before his righteousness, as deacons of God and Christ and not of men: not slanderers, not double-tongued, not lovers of money, self-controlled in all things, compassionate, diligent, walking according to the truth of the Lord, who became “servant of all.” If we please him in the present age, we will also receive the age to come, just as he promised to raise us from the dead and that, if we conduct ourselves worthily of him, “we will also reign with him,” if indeed we believe.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:288 · 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 5:1009b (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

1 Tim 3:8 · allusion, high confidence
Mark 9:35 · allusion, medium confidence
Phil 1:27 · allusion, medium confidence
2 Tim 2:12 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Church office, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

“Slanderers” (διάβολοι): the same word as “devil,” used here as an adjective of people (see the glossary).
“Servant of all” (διάκονος πάντων) plays on the word “deacon.”
“Conduct ourselves” (πολιτευσώμεθα): literally “live as citizens.”

Cite this passage

Pol. Phil. 5.2 (PG 5:1009b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/5/2/).

Plain text

Pol. Phil. 5.2 (PG 5:1009b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/5/2/).