To the Philippians 11.4

Summary: Polycarp prays that Valens and his wife repent and urges the church to restore them as straying members rather than treat them as enemies.

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Latin text · Lake, LCL 24:296–298

Valde ergo, fratres, contristor pro illo et pro coniuge eius, quibus det dominus paenitentiam veram. Sobrii ergo estote et vos in hoc; et non sicut inimicos tales existimetis, sed sicut passibilia membra et errantia eos revocate, ut omnium vestrum corpus salvetis. Hoc enim agentes vos ipsos aedificatis.

English · Claude translation

I am therefore very sorry, brothers, for him and for his wife; may the Lord grant them true repentance. So you too must be sober in this matter: do not regard such people as enemies, but call them back as suffering and straying members, so that you may save the body of you all. For by doing this you build up yourselves.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:296–298 · 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

Translation notes

  • “Suffering” (passibilia): capable of suffering, frail.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (OCR error in the digitized Latin): walde → Valde; vestrun. → vestrum.

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Pol. Phil. 11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/11/4/).

Plain text
Pol. Phil. 11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/11/4/).

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