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Ignatius of Antioch

Epistle to Polycarp

c. AD 107 · 8 chapters

A short letter of advice to the young bishop of Smyrna on how to shepherd his flock.

The 1870 volume prints two versions of each letter, a shorter and a longer. The shorter is the one scholars accept as Ignatius's own, and it is the only one given here; the longer was expanded by a later writer.

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1. Salutation
2. 1
3. 2
4. 3
5. 4
6. 5
7. 6
8. 7
9. 8

Translation by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie: The Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. 1: The Apostolic Fathers (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870).
Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #77576, proofread by Distributed Proofreaders from Internet Archive scans.