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Polycarp
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The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
[435] Comp. Matt. vi. 10;Acts xxi. 14.
[436] Or, “diligence.”
[437] Jacobson reads, “and [marvelling] that they had used so great diligence to capture,” etc.
[438] Or, “be silent.”
Chapter VIII.—Polycarp is brought into the city.
[439] Jacobson deems these words an interpolation.
[440] Or, “Cæsar is Lord,” all the mss. having κύριος instead of κύριε, as usually printed.
[441] Or, “terrible.”
[442] Or, “cast him down” simply, the following words being, as above, an interpolation.
[443] Or, “sprained his ankle.”
[444] Or, “not turning back.”
Chapter IX.—Polycarp refuses to revile Christ.
[445] Referring the words to the heathen, and not to the Christians, as was desired.
Chapter X.—Polycarp confesses himself a Christian.
[446] Or, “an account of Christianity.”
[447] Comp. Rom. xiii. 1-7; Tit. iii. 1.
[448] Or, “of my making any defence to them.”
Chapter XI.—No threats have any effect on Polycarp.
[449] Literally, “repentance from things better to things worse is a change impossible to us.”
[450] That is, to leave this world for a better.
Chapter XII.—Polycarp is sentenced to be burned.
[451] Some read, “ungodliness,” but the above seems preferable.
[452] The Asiarchs were those who superintended all arrangements connected with the games in the several provinces.
[453] Literally, “the baiting of dogs.”
Chapter XIII.—The funeral pile is erected.
[454] Literally, “good behaviour.”
[455] Some think this implies that Polycarp’s skin was believed to possess a miraculous efficacy.
Chapter XIV.—The prayer of Polycarp.
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