The Martyrdom of Polycarp

You, indeed, asked that the events should be explained to you at length, but we have for the present explained them in summary by our brother Marcion[*](Not of course to be identified with the famous heretic. If Marcianus be the right text, it is noteworthy that Irenaeus sent his treatise on the The Apostolic Preaching to a certain Marcianus. But this was probably forty years later than Polycarp’s death.); therefore when you have heard these things, send the letter to the brethren further on, that they also may glorify the Lord, who takes his chosen ones from his own servants.