Epistula ad Philippenses

Polycarp

Polycarp. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1912.

I rejoice greatly with you in our Lord Jesus[*](The hospitality of the Pliilippians) Christ that you have followed the pattern of true love, and have helped on their way, as opportunity was given you, those who were bound in chains, which become the saints, and are the diadems of those who have been truly chosen by God and our Lord.

I rejoice also that your firmly[*](Their faith) rooted faith, which was famous in past years, still flourishes and bears fruit unto our Lord Jesus Christ, who endured for our sins, even to the suffering of death, whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of Hades,

in whom, though you did not see him, you believed in unspeakable and

glorified joy,—into which joy many desire to come, knowing that by grace ye are saved, not by works but by the will of God through Jesus Christ.