“FOR ‘everyone who does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is another antichrist’ (1 Jn. 4:2, 3); and whoever does not confess the witness of the Cross is of the devil; and whoever perverts the sayings of the Lord to his own evil desires and says there is neither resurrection nor judgment, that one is the first-born of Satan. Therefore, let us abandon the vanities of the crowd and their false teachings; let us return to the word which was delivered to us from the beginning.”
~St. Polycarp, (A.D. 69 – A.D. 155), bishop of Smyrna: ‘Letter to the Philippians,’ No. 7.
~St. Polycarp, (A.D. 69 – A.D. 155), bishop of Smyrna: ‘Letter to the Philippians,’ No. 7.
S. Polycarpus, by Michael Burghers.
Engraving, ca 1685.
Engraving, ca 1685.