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The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

Of Smyrna, Polycarp

Paperback

Religion General General Christianity

Publisher Price: $5.95

ISBN10: 1643734016
ISBN13: 9781643734019
Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing
Published: Jan 22 2024
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Epistle of Polycarp is usually made a sort of preface to those of Ignatius, for reasons which will be obvious to the reader. Yet he was born later, and lived to a much later period. They seem to have been friends from the days of their common pupilage under St. John; and there is nothing improbable in the conjecture of Usher, that he was the angel of the church in Smyrna, to whom the Master says, Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. His pupil Iren us gives us one of the very few portraits of an apostolic man which are to be found in antiquity, in a few sentences which are a picture: I could describe the very place in which the blessed Polycarp sat and taught; his going out and coming in; the whole tenor of his life; his personal appearance; how he would speak of the conversations he had held with John and with others who had seen the Lord. How did he make mention of their words and of whatever he had heard from them respecting the Lord. Thus he unconsciously tantalizes our reverent curiosity. Alas! that such conversations were not written for our learning. But there is a wise Providence in what is withheld, as well as in the inestimable treasures we have received.

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