Martyrdom of Polycarp 22.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:342

Ἐγὼ δὲ πάλιν Πιόνιος ἐκ τοῦ προγεγραμμένου ἔγραψα ἀναζητήσας αὐτά, κατὰ ἀποκάλυψιν φανερώσαντός μοι τοῦ μακαρίου Πολυκάρπου, καθὼς δηλώσω ἐν τῷ καθεξῆς, συναγαγὼν αὐτὰ ἤδη σχεδὸν ἐκ τοῦ χρόνου κεκμηκότα, ἵνα κἀμὲ συναγάγῃ ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς μετὰ τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν οὐράνιον βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ, ᾧ ἡ δόξα σὺν τῷ πατρὶ καὶ ἁγίῳ πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν.

English · Claude translation

And I, Pionius, again wrote them out from the copy just mentioned, having searched for them after the blessed Polycarp showed them to me in a revelation, as I will make clear in what follows. I gathered them when they were already almost worn out with age, so that the Lord Jesus Christ may gather me too with his elect into his heavenly kingdom; to whom be glory with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.

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Source

Lake, LCL 25:342 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 312–345 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Also in

PG 5:1045b (found by text match)

Text

As printed in Lake, LCL 25. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 25, 1913); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Notes

Translation notes

Pionius may be the Smyrnaean martyr of ca. 250, or a later writer using his name; the Life of Polycarp is attributed to him. “What follows” refers to a work not included here.
One manuscript (Moscow) has a different and longer ending in place of 22.2–3; it is not published here.

Cite this passage

Mart. Pol. 22.3 (PG 5:1045b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/mart-pol/22/3/).

Plain text

Mart. Pol. 22.3 (PG 5:1045b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/mart-pol/22/3/).