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To the Philippians 10.3

Polycarp of Smyrna · To the Philippians · ca. 110–135 · Smyrna · Read in context

Summary: Woe to anyone who brings the Lord's name into contempt; teach and practice sober living.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 24:296

Vae autem, per quem nomen domini blasphematur! Sobrietatem ergo docete omnes, in qua et vos conversamini.

English · Claude translation

But woe to him through whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach sobriety, therefore, to all, and live in it yourselves.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:296 · 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
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Latin version (the Greek of this passage is lost), text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912).
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Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (OCR error in the digitized Latin): wae → Vae; sobrictatem → Sobrietatem; docetc → docete.

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Pol. Phil. 10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/10/3/).

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Pol. Phil. 10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/10/3/).

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