To the Philippians 7.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:292

Πᾶς γὰρ ὃς ἂν μὴ ὁμολογῇ Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐν σαρκὶ ἐληλυθέναι, ἀντιχριστός ἐστιν· καὶ ὃς ἂν μὴ ὁμολογῇ τὸ μαρτύριον τοῦ σταυροῦ, ἐκ τοῦ διαβόλου ἐστίν· καὶ ὃς ἂν μεθοδεύῃ τὰ λόγια τοῦ κυρίου πρὸς τὰς ἰδίας ἐπιθυμίας καὶ λέγῃ μήτε ἀνάστασιν μήτε κρίσιν, οὗτος πρωτότοκος ἐστι τοῦ σατανᾶ.

English · Claude translation

For “everyone who does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is antichrist”; and whoever does not confess the testimony of the cross “is of the devil”; and whoever twists the sayings of the Lord to suit his own desires and says there is neither resurrection nor judgment, this one is the firstborn of Satan.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:292 · 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 Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.

Scripture

1 John 4:2–3 · quotation, high confidence
2 John 1:7 · allusion, high confidence
1 John 3:8 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy, Christology, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

“The testimony of the cross” (τὸ μαρτύριον τοῦ σταυροῦ): either the witness the cross gives, or the fact of Christ's real suffering on it.
“Twists” (μεθοδεύῃ): handles craftily, manipulates.
Irenaeus reports that Polycarp called Marcion “the firstborn of Satan” when they met (Irenaeus, Haer. 3.3.4).

Cite this passage

Pol. Phil. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/7/1/).

Plain text

Pol. Phil. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/7/1/).