Sophia Scriptura

To the Philippians 6.2

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

Summary: Those who ask forgiveness must forgive, since all will stand before Christ's judgment seat.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:290

εἰ οὖν δεόμεθα τοῦ κυρίου, ἵνα ἡμῖν ἀφῇ, ὀφείλομεν καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀφιέναι· ἀπέναντι γὰρ τῶν τοῦ κυρίου καὶ θεοῦ ἐσμὲν ὀφθαλμῶν, καὶ πάντας δεῖ παραστῆναι τῷ βήματι τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ ἕκαστον ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ λόγον δοῦναι.

English · Claude translation

If then we ask the Lord to forgive us, we too ought to forgive; for we are before the eyes of the Lord and God, and “we must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ,” and “each must give an account of himself.”

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:290 · 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 5:1012a (found by text match)
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.
Scripture
Topics
Eschatology, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Of the Lord and God” may name one person (Christ) or two (the Lord Christ and God); the Greek allows both.

Cite this passage

Pol. Phil. 6.2 (PG 5:1012a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/6/2/).

Plain text
Pol. Phil. 6.2 (PG 5:1012a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/6/2/).

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