To the Philippians 7.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Believers should hold to the teaching handed down from the beginning, watching in prayer and fasting as the Lord taught.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:292

διὸ ἀπολιπόντες τὴν ματαιότητα τῶν πολλῶν καὶ τὰς ψευδοδιδασκαλίας ἐπὶ τὸν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἡμῖν παραδοθέντα λόγον ἐπιστρέψωμεν, νήφοντες πρὸς τὰς εὐχὰς καὶ προσκαρτεροῦντες νηστείαις, δεήσεσιν αἰτούμενοι τὸν παντεπόπτην θεὸν μὴ εἰσενεγκεῖν ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμόν, καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ κύριος· Τὸ μὲν πνεῦμα πρόθυμον, ἡ δὲ σὰρξ ἀσθενής.

English · Claude translation

Therefore, leaving behind the futility of the many and their false teachings, let us return to the word handed down to us from the beginning, being watchful in prayer and persevering in fasting, asking the all-seeing God in our petitions “not to bring us into temptation,” just as the Lord said: “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:292 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 282–301 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Also in

PG 5:1012b–1012c (found by text match)

Text

As printed in Lake, LCL 24. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); 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)

Scripture

1 Pet 4:7 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 6:13 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 26:41 · quotation, high confidence
Mark 14:38 · quotation, high confidence
Jude 1:3 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Prayer, Fasting, Heresy

Cite this passage

Pol. Phil. 7.2 (PG 5:1012b–1012c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/7/2/).

Plain text

Pol. Phil. 7.2 (PG 5:1012b–1012c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/7/2/).