Martyrdom of Polycarp 7.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Polycarp welcomed his captors with a meal and asked for an hour to pray.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:320

ἀκούσας οὖν παρόντας αὐτούς, καταβὰς διελέχθη αὐτοῖς, θαυμαζόντων τῶν παρόντων τὴν ἡλικίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ εὐσταθές, καὶ εἰ τοσαύτη σπουδὴ ἦν τοῦ συλληφθῆναι τοιοῦτον πρεσβύτην ἄνδρα. εὐθέως οὖν αὐτοῖς ἐκέλευσεν παρατεθῆναι φαγεῖν καὶ πιεῖν ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρᾳ, ὅσον ἂν βούλωνται, ἐξῃτήσατο δὲ αὐτούς, ἵνα δῶσιν αὐτῷ ὥραν πρὸς τὸ προσεύξασθαι ἀδεῶς.

English · Claude translation

Hearing that they had arrived, he went down and talked with them, while those present marveled at his age and his calm, and that there should be such eagerness to arrest so old a man. So he at once ordered that food and drink be set before them at that hour, as much as they wanted, and he asked them to give him an hour to pray undisturbed.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:320 · 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 5:1033c (found by text match)

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.

Topics

Prayer

Cite this passage

Mart. Pol. 7.2 (PG 5:1033c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/mart-pol/7/2/).

Plain text

Mart. Pol. 7.2 (PG 5:1033c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/mart-pol/7/2/).