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<h1><span class="⁋">⁋</span> The Epistle of Polycarp</h1>
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 1</h3><br/>
<p>
<button id="1-1" onclick="underline(this);"><sup><b>1</b></sup> I have greatly rejoiced with you in our Lord Jesus Christ, because ye
have followed the example of true love [as displayed by God], and have
accompanied, as became you, those who were bound in chains, the fitting
ornaments of saints, and which are indeed the diadems of the true elect of
God and our Lord;<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button id="1-2" onclick="underline(this);"><sup><b>2</b></sup> and because the strong root of your faith, spoken of in days long gone
by, endures even until now, and brings forth fruit to our Lord Jesus Christ,
who for our sins suffered even unto death, [but] “whom God raised from the
dead, having loosed the bands of the grave.”<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button id="1-3" onclick="underline(this);"><sup><b>3</b></sup> In whom, though now ye see Him not, ye believe, and believing,
rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory;" into which joy many desire
to enter, knowing that “by grace ye are saved, not of works,” but by the will
of God through Jesus Christ.<br/></button><br/><br/>
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 2</h3><br/>
<p>
<button id="2-1" onclick="underline(this);"><sup><b>1</b></sup> “Wherefore, girding up your loins,” “serve the Lord in fear” and truth,
as those who have forsaken the vain, empty talk and error of the multitude,
and “believed in Him who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead,
and gave Him glory,” and a throne at His right hand. To Him all things” in
heaven and on earth are subject. Him every spirit serves. He comes as the
Judge of the living and the dead. His blood will God require of those who
do not believe in Him.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button id="2-2" onclick="underline(this);"><sup><b>2</b></sup> But He who raised Him up from the dead will raise up us also, if we do
His will, and walk in His commandments, and love what He loved, keeping
ourselves from all unrighteousness, covetousness, love of money, evil
speaking, false witness; “not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing,” or
blow for blow, or cursing for cursing,<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button id="2-3" onclick="underline(this);"><sup><b>3</b></sup> but being mindful of what the Lord said in His teaching: “Judge not,
that ye be not judged; forgive, and it shall be forgiven unto you; be merciful,
that ye may obtain mercy; with what measure ye measure out, it shall be
measured to you again; and once more, “Blessed are the poor, and those that
are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of God.”<br/></button>
</p><br/>
<h3 align="left">Chapter 3</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="3-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> These things, brethren, I write to you concerning righteousness, not
because I take anything upon myself, but because ye have invited me to do
so.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="3-2"><sup><b>2</b></sup> For neither I, nor any other such one, can come up to the wisdom of the
blessed and glorified Paul. He, when among you, accurately and steadfastly
taught the word of truth in the presence of those who were then alive. And
when absent from you, he wrote you letters, which, if you carefully study,
you will find to be the means of building you up in that faith<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="3-3"><sup><b>3</b></sup> which has been given you, and which, being followed by hope, and
preceeded by love towards God, and Christ, and our neighbor, “is the
mother of us all.” For if any one be inwardly possessed of these graces, he
hath fulfilled the command of righteousness, since he that hath love is far
from all sin.<br/></button><br/><br/>
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 4</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="4-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> “But the love of money is the root of all evils.” Knowing, therefore,
that “as we brought nothing into the world, so we can carry nothing out,”
let us arm ourselves with the armor of righteousness; and let us teach, first
of all, ourselves to walk in the commandments of the Lord.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="4-2"><sup><b>2</b></sup> Next, [teach] your wives [to walk] in the faith given to them, and in
love and purity tenderly loving their own husbands in all truth, and loving
all [others] equally in all chastity; and to train up their children in the
knowledge and fear of God.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="4-3"> <sup><b>3</b></sup> ³Teach the widows to be discreet as respects the faith of the Lord,
praying continually for all, being far from all slandering, evil-speaking,
false-witnessing, love of money, and every kind of evil; knowing that they
are the altars of God, that He clearly perceives all things, and that nothing is
hidden from Him, neither reasonings, nor reflections, nor any one of the
secret things of the heart.<br/></button><br/><br/>
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 5</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="5-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> Knowing, then, that “God is not mocked,” we ought to walk worthy of
His commandment and glory.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="5-2"><sup><b>2</b></sup> In like manner should the deacons be blameless before the face of His
righteousness, as being the servants of God and Christ, and not of men.
They must not be slanderers, two-faced, or lovers of money, but temperate
in all things, compassionate, industrious, walking according to the truth of
the Lord, who was the servant of all. If we please Him in this present world,
we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us
that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him,
“we shall also reign together with Him,” provided only we believe.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="5-3"><sup><b>3</b></sup> In like manner, let the young men also be blameless in all things, being
especially careful to preserve purity, and keeping themselves in, as with a
bridle, from every kind of evil. For it is well that they should be cut off from
the lusts that are in the world, since “every lust warreth against the spirit;
“ and “neither fornicators, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God,” nor those who do things
inconsistent and unbecoming. Wherefore, it is needful to abstain from all
these things, being subject to the presbyters and deacons, as unto God and
Christ. The virgins also must walk in a blameless and pure conscience.<br/></button><br/><br/>
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 6</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="6-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> And let the presbyters be compassionate and merciful to all, bringing
back those that wander, visiting all the sick, and not neglecting the widow,
the orphan, or the poor, but always “providing for that which is becoming in
the sight of God and man; “abstaining from all wrath, respect of persons,
and unjust judgment; keeping far off from. all covetousness, not quickly
crediting [an evil report] against any one, not severe in judgment, as
knowing that we are all under a debt of sin.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="6-2"><sup><b>2</b></sup> If then we entreat the Lord to forgive us, we ought also ourselves to
forgive; for we are before the eyes of our Lord and God, and “we must all
appear at the judgment-seat of Christ, and everyone must give an account of
himself.”<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="6-3"><sup><b>3</b></sup> Let us then serve Him in fear, and with all reverence, even as He
Himself has commanded us, and as the apostles who preached the Gospel
unto us, and the prophets who proclaimed beforehand the coming of the
Lord [have alike taught us]. Let us be zealous in the pursuit of that which is
good, keeping ourselves from causes of offence, from false brethren, and
from those who in hypocrisy bear the name of the Lord, and draw away vain
men into error.<br/></button><br/><br/>
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 7</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="7-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> “For whoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh,
is antichrist;” and whoever does not confess the testimony of the cross, is of
the devil; and whoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and
says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the first-born of
Satan.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="7-2"><sup><b>2</b></sup> Wherefore, forsaking the vanity of many, and their false doctrines, let
us return to the word which has been handed down to us from the beginning;
“watching unto prayer,” and persevering in fasting; beseeching in our
supplications the all-seeing God to “not lead us into temptation.” As the
Lord has said: “The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak.”<br/></button><br/><br/>
</p>
<h3 align="left">Chapter 8</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="8-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> Let us then continually persevere in our hope, and the earnest of our
righteousness, which is Jesus Christ, “who bore our sins in His own body on
the tree,” “who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth,” but
endured all things for us, that we might live in Him.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="8-2"><sup><b>2</b></sup> Let us then be imitators of His patience; and if we suffer for His
name’s sake, let us glorify Him. For He has set us this example in Himself,
and we have believed that such is the case.<br/></button><br/><br/>
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 9</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="9-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> I exhort you all, therefore, to yield obedience to the word of
righteousness, and to exercise all patience, such as ye have seen [set] before
your eyes, not only in the case of the blessed Ignatius, and Zosimus, and
Rufus, but also in others among yourselves, and in Paul himself, and the rest
of the apostles.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="9-2"><sup><b>2</b></sup> [This do] in the assurance that all these have not run in vain, but in
faith and righteousness, and that they are [now] in their due place in the
presence of the Lord, with whom also they suffered. For they loved not this
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present world, but Him who died for us, and for our sakes was raised again
by God from the dead.<br/></button><br/><br/>
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 10</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="10-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and follow the example of the
Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood, and
being attached to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the
meekness of the Lord in your interaction with one another, and despising no
one.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="10-2"><sup><b>2</b></sup> When you can do good, defer it not, because “alms delivers from
death.” Be all of you subject one to another, having your conduct blameless
among the Gentiles, that ye may both receive praise for your good works,
and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="10-3"><sup><b>3</b></sup> But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach,
therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct.<br/></button><br/><br/>
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 11</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="11-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> I am greatly grieved for Valens, who was once a presbyter among you,
because he so little understands the place that was given him [in the Church].
I exhort you, therefore, that ye abstain from covetousness, and that ye be
chaste and truthful. “Abstain from every form of evil.”<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="11-2"><sup><b>2</b></sup> For if a man cannot govern himself in such matters, how shall he
enjoin them on others? If a man does not keep himself from covetousness,
he shall be defiled by idolatry, and shall be judged as one of the heathen.
But who of us are ignorant of the judgment of the Lord? “Do we not know
that the saints shall judge the world?” as Paul teaches.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="11-3"><sup><b>3</b></sup> But I have neither seen nor heard of any such thing among you, in the
midst of whom the blessed Paul labored, and who are commended in the
beginning of his Epistle. For he boasts of you in all those Churches which
alone then knew the Lord; but we [of Smyrna] had not yet known Him.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="11-4"><sup><b>4</b></sup> I am deeply grieved, therefore, brethren, for him (Valens) and his wife; to
whom may the Lord grant true repentance! ⁴ And be ye then moderate in
regard to this matter, and “do not count such as enemies,” but call them back
as suffering and straying members, that ye may save your whole body. For
by so acting ye shall edify yourselves.<br/></button><br/><br/>
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 12</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="12-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> For I trust that ye are well versed in the Sacred Scriptures, and that
nothing is hidden from you; but to me this privilege is not yet granted. It is
declared then in these Scriptures, “Be ye angry, and sin not,” and, “Let not
the sun go down upon your wrath.” Happy is he who remembers this, which
I believe to be the case with you.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="12-2"><sup><b>2</b></sup> But may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ
Himself, who is the Son of God, and our everlasting High Priest, build you
up in faith and truth, and in all meekness, gentleness, patience, longsuffering, forbearance, and purity; and may He bestow on you a lot and
portion among His saints, and on us with you, and on all who are under
heaven, who shall believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, and in His Father, who
“raised Him from the dead.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="12-3"><sup><b>3</b></sup> Pray for all the saints. Pray also for kings, and potentates, and princes,
and for those that persecute and hate you, and for the enemies of the cross,
that your fruit may be manifest to all, and that ye may be perfect in Him.<br/></button><br/><br/>
</p>
<h3 align="left">Chapter 13</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="13-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> Both you and Ignatius wrote to me, that if any one went [from this]
into Syria, he should carry your letter with him; which request I will attend
to if I find a fitting opportunity, either personally, or through some other
acting for me, that your desire may be fulfilled.<br/></button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="13-2"><sup><b>2</b></sup> The Epistles of Ignatius written by him to us, and all the rest [of his
Epistles] which we have by us, we have sent to you, as you requested. They
are subjoined to this Epistle, and by them ye may be greatly profited; for
they treat of faith and patience, and all things that tend to edification in our
Lord. Any more certain information you may have obtained respecting both
Ignatius himself, and those that were with him, have the goodness to make
known to us.<br/></button><br/><br/>
</p>
<h3 align="left">Chapter 14</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="14-1"><sup><b>1</b></sup> These things I have written to you by Crescens, whom up to the present
time I have recommended unto you, and do now recommend. For he has
acted blamelessly among us, and I believe also among you. Moreover, ye
will hold his sister in esteem when she comes to you. Be ye safe in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Grace be with you all. Amen.<br/></button>
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<h1>The 1st Epistle of Ignatius</h1><br/>
<h3 align="left">Greeting</h3><br/>
<p>
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Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church which is at Ephesus, in Asia, deservedly most happy, being blessed in the greatness and fullness of God the Father, and predestinated before the ages of time, that it should be always for an enduring and unchangeable glory, being united and elected through the true passion by the will of the Father, and Jesus Christ, our God: Abundant happiness through Jesus Christ, and His undefiled grace.
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 1</h3><br/>
<p>
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I have become acquainted with your name, much-beloved in God, which you have acquired by the habit of righteousness, according to the faith and love in Jesus Christ our Saviour. Being the followers of God, and stirring up yourselves by the blood of God, you have perfectly accomplished the work which was beseeming to you. For, on hearing that I came bound from Syria for the common name and hope, trusting through your prayers to be permitted to fight with beasts at Rome, that so by martyrdom I may indeed become the disciple of Him who gave Himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God, Ephesians 5:2 [you hastened to see me ]. I received, therefore, your whole multitude in the name of God, through Onesimus, a man of inexpressible love, and your bishop in the flesh, whom I pray you by Jesus Christ to love, and that you would all seek to be like him. And blessed be He who has granted unto you, being worthy, to obtain such an excellent bishop.
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 2</h3><br/>
<p>
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As to my fellow-servant Burrhus, your deacon in regard to God and blessed in all things, I beg that he may continue longer, both for your honour and that of your bishop. And Crocus also, worthy both of God and you, whom I have received as the manifestation of your love, has in all things refreshed 1 Corinthians 16:18, etc. me, as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ shall also refresh 1 Corinthians 16:18, etc. him; together with Onesimus, and Burrhus, and Euplus, and Fronto, by means of whom, I have, as to love, beheld all of you. May I always have joy of you, if indeed I be worthy of it. It is therefore befitting that you should in every way glorify Jesus Christ, who has glorified you, that by a unanimous obedience you may be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment, and may all speak the same thing concerning the same thing, 1 Corinthians 1:10 and that, being subject to the bishop and the presbytery, you may in all respects be sanctified.
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 3</h3><br/>
<p>
<button onclick="underline(this);" id="I/3">
I do not issue orders to you, as if I were some great person. For though I am bound for the name [of Christ], I am not yet perfect in Jesus Christ. For now I begin to be a disciple, and I speak to you as fellow-disciples with me. For it was needful for me to have been stirred up by you in faith, exhortation, patience, and long-suffering. But inasmuch as love suffers me not to be silent in regard to you, I have therefore taken upon me first to exhort you that you would all run together in accordance with the will of God. For even Jesus Christ, our inseparable life, is the [manifested] will of the Father; as also bishops, settled everywhere to the utmost bounds [of the earth], are so by the will of Jesus Christ.
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 4</h3><br/>
<p>
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Wherefore it is fitting that you should run together in accordance with the will of your bishop, which thing also you do. For your justly renowned presbytery, worthy of God, is fitted as exactly to the bishop as the strings are to the harp. Therefore in your concord and harmonious love, Jesus Christ is sung. And man by man, become a choir, that being harmonious in love, and taking up the song of God in unison, you may with one voice sing to the Father through Jesus Christ, so that He may both hear you, and perceive by your works that you are indeed the members of His Son. It is profitable, therefore, that you should live in an unblameable unity, that thus you may always enjoy communion with God.
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 5</h3><br/>
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For if I in this brief space of time, have enjoyed such fellowship with your bishop — I mean not of a mere human, but of a spiritual nature — how much more do I reckon you happy who are so joined to him as the Church is to Jesus Christ, and as Jesus Christ is to the Father, that so all things may agree in unity! Let no man deceive himself: if any one be not within the altar, he is deprived of the bread of God. For if the prayer of one or two possesses Matthew 18:19 such power, how much more that of the bishop and the whole Church! He, therefore, that does not assemble with the Church, has even by this manifested his pride, and condemned himself. For it is written, God resists the proud. Let us be careful, then, not to set ourselves in opposition to the bishop, in order that we may be subject to God.
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Now the more any one sees the bishop keeping silence, the more ought he to revere him. For we ought to receive every one whom the Master of the house sends to be over His household, Matthew 24:45 as we would do Him that sent him. It is manifest, therefore, that we should look upon the bishop even as we would upon the Lord Himself. And indeed Onesimus himself greatly commends your good order in God, that you all live according to the truth, and that no sect has any dwelling-place among you. Nor, indeed, do you hearken to any one rather than to Jesus Christ speaking in truth.
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For some are in the habit of carrying about the name [of Jesus Christ] in wicked guile, while yet they practise things unworthy of God, whom you must flee as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, inasmuch as they are men who can scarcely be cured. There is one Physician who is possessed both of flesh and spirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; both of Mary and of God; first passible and then impassible — even Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God. For since there is no strife raging among you which might distress you, you are certainly living in accordance with God's will. I am far inferior to you, and require to be sanctified by your Church of Ephesus, so renowned throughout the world. They that are carnal cannot do those things which are spiritual, nor they that are spiritual the things which are carnal; even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith. But even those things which you do according to the flesh are spiritual; for you do all things in Jesus Christ.
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Nevertheless, I have heard of some who have passed on from this to you, having false doctrine, whom you did not allow to sow among you, but stopped your ears, that you might not receive those things which were sown by them, as being stones 1 Peter 2:5 of the temple of the Father, prepared for the building of God the Father, and drawn up on high by the instrument of Jesus Christ, which is the cross, John 12:32 making use of the Holy Spirit as a rope, while your faith was the means by which you ascended, and your love the way which led up to God. You, therefore, as well as all your fellow-travellers, are God-bearers, temple-bearers, Christ-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ, in whom also I exult that I have been thought worthy, by means of this Epistle, to converse and rejoice with you, because with respect to your Christian life you love nothing but God only.
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 10</h3><br/>
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And pray without ceasing on behalf of other men. For there is in them hope of repentance that they may attain to God. See, then, that they be instructed by your works, if in no other way. Be meek in response to their wrath, humble in opposition to their boasting: to their blasphemies return your prayers; in contrast to their error, be stedfast Colossians 1:23 in the faith; and for their cruelty, manifest your gentleness. While we take care not to imitate their conduct, let us be found their brethren in all true kindness; and let us seek to be followers of the Lord (who ever more unjustly treated, more destitute, more condemned?), that so no plant of the devil may be found in you, but you may remain in all holiness and sobriety in Jesus Christ, both with respect to the flesh and spirit.
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The last times have come upon us. Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation. For let us either stand in awe of the wrath to come, or show regard for the grace which is at present displayed — one of two things. Only [in one way or another] let us be found in Christ Jesus unto the true life. Apart from Him, let nothing attract you, for whom I bear about these bonds, these spiritual jewels, by which may I arise through your prayers, of which I entreat I may always be a partaker, that I may be found in the lot of the Christians of Ephesus, who have always been of the same mind with the apostles through the power of Jesus Christ.
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I know both who I am, and to whom I write. I am a condemned man, you have been the objects of mercy; I am subject to danger, you are established in safety. You are the persons through whom those pass that are cut off for the sake of God. You are initiated into the mysteries of the Gospel with Paul, the holy, the martyred, the deservedly most happy, at whose feet may I be found, when I shall attain to God; who in all his Epistles makes mention of you in Christ Jesus.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith. Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in heaven and earth, is brought to an end.
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None of these things is hid from you, if you perfectly possess that faith and love towards Christ Jesus 1 Timothy 1:14 which are the beginning and the end of life. For the beginning is faith, and the end is love. 1 Timothy 1:5 Now these two, being inseparably connected together, are of God, while all other things which are requisite for a holy life follow after them. No man [truly] making a profession of faith sins; 1 John 3:7 nor does he that possesses love hate any one. The tree is made manifest by its fruit; Matthew 12:33 so those that profess themselves to be Christians shall be recognised by their conduct. For there is not now a demand for mere profession, but that a man be found continuing in the power of faith to the end.
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 15</h3><br/>
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It is better for a man to be silent and be [a Christian], than to talk and not to be one. It is good to teach, if he who speaks also acts. There is then one Teacher, who spoke and it was done; while even those things which He did in silence are worthy of the Father. He who possesses the word of Jesus, is truly able to hear even His very silence, that he may be perfect, and may both act as he speaks, and be recognised by his silence. There is nothing which is hid from God, but our very secrets are near to Him. Let us therefore do all things as those who have Him dwelling in us, that we may be His temples, 1 Corinthians 6:19 and He may be in us as our God, which indeed He is, and will manifest Himself before our faces. Wherefore we justly love Him.
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 16</h3><br/>
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Do not err, my brethren. James 1:16 Those that corrupt families shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 If, then, those who do this as respects the flesh have suffered death, how much more shall this be the case with any one who corrupts by wicked doctrine the faith of God, for which Jesus Christ was crucified! Such an one becoming defiled [in this way], shall go away into everlasting fire, and so shall every one that hearkens unto him.
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For this end did the Lord allow the ointment to be poured upon His head, John 12:7 that He might breathe immortality into His Church. Be not anointed with the bad odour of the doctrine of the prince of this world; let him not lead you away captive from the life which is set before you. And why are we not all prudent, since we have received the knowledge of God, which is Jesus Christ? Why do we foolishly perish, not recognising the gift which the Lord has of a truth sent to us?
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Let my spirit be counted as nothing for the sake of the cross, which is a stumbling-block 1 Corinthians 1:18 to those that do not believe, but to us salvation and life eternal. Where is the wise man? Where the disputer? 1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the boasting of those who are styled prudent? For our God, Jesus Christ, was, according to the appointment of God, conceived in the womb by Mary, of the seed of David, but by the Holy Ghost. He was born and baptized, that by His passion He might purify the water.
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Now the virginity of Mary was hidden from the prince of this world, as was also her offspring, and the death of the Lord; three mysteries of renown, which were wrought in silence by God. How, then, was He manifested to the world? A star shone forth in heaven above all the other stars, the light of which was inexpressible, while its novelty struck men with astonishment. And all the rest of the stars, with the sun and moon, formed a chorus to this star, and its light was exceedingly great above them all. And there was agitation felt as to whence this new spectacle came, so unlike to everything else [in the heavens]. Hence every kind of magic was destroyed, and every bond of wickedness disappeared; ignorance was removed, and the old kingdom abolished, God Himself being manifested in human form for the renewal of eternal life. And now that took a beginning which had been prepared by God. Henceforth all things were in a state of tumult, because He meditated the abolition of death.
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 20</h3><br/>
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If Jesus Christ shall graciously permit me through your prayers, and if it be His will, I shall, in a second little work which I will write to you, make further manifest to you [the nature of] the dispensation of which I have begun [to treat], with respect to the new man, Jesus Christ, in His faith and in His love, in His suffering and in His resurrection. Especially [will I do this ] if the Lord make known to me that you come together man by man in common through grace, individually, in one faith, and in Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David according to the flesh, being both the Son of man and the Son of God, so that you obey the bishop and the presbytery with an undivided mind, breaking one and the same bread, which is the medicine of immortality, and the antidote to prevent us from dying, but [which causes] that we should live for ever in Jesus Christ.
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<h3 align="left">Chapter 21</h3><br/>
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My soul be for yours and theirs whom, for the honour of God, you have sent to Smyrna; whence also I write to you, giving thanks unto the Lord, and loving Polycarp even as I do you. Remember me, as Jesus Christ also remembered you. Pray for the Church which is in Syria, whence I am led bound to Rome, being the last of the faithful who are there, even as I have been thought worthy to be chosen to show forth the honour of God. Farewell in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, our common hope.
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