Skip to main content
Orthodox Knowledge
A
Polycarp to the Philippians

PolPhil. 3

Polycarp to the Philippians · Hieromartyr Polycarp of Smyrna

These things, brethren, I write unto you concerning righteousness, not because I laid this charge upon myself, but because ye invited me.

Pol Phil 3.1

For neither am I, nor is any other like unto me, able to follow the wisdom of the blessed and glorious Paul, who when he came among you taught face to face with the men of that day the word which concerneth truth carefully and surely; who also, when he was absent, wrote a letter unto you, into the which if ye look diligently, ye shall be able to be builded up unto the faith given to you,

Pol Phil 3.2

which is the mother of us all, while hope followeth after and love goeth before--love toward God and Christ and toward our neighbor. For if any man be occupied with these, he hath fulfilled the commandment of righteousness; for he that hath love is far from all sin.

Pol Phil 3.3