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Polycarp of Smyrna

The Martyrdom of Polycarp

Salutation

The church of God which sojourns at Smyrna, to the church of God sojourning in Philomelium,1 and to all the congregations2 of the holy and catholic church in every place: Mercy, peace, and love from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, be multiplied.

Notes

  1. Some read, “Philadelphia,” but on inferior authority. Philomelium was a city of Phrygia.↩
  2. The word in the original is παροικίαις, from which the English “parishes” is derived.↩

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. Public domain.