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St. Polycarp's Letter to the Philippians
St. Polycarp of Smyrna · image, public domain
The Philippians had asked St. Polycarp for a letter and for copies of St. Ignatius's letters. He sent both, with plain advice on faith, righteousness and caring for one another.
It is short and warm, and full of the words of the New Testament he had grown up with.
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About this edition
From the Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885), edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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