# To the Philippians 8.1

- Author: [Polycarp of Smyrna](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/polycarp-of-smyrna/)
- Work: [To the Philippians](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/) (*Epistula ad Philippenses*)
- Date: ca. 110–135 (disputed)
- 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)
- Also in: PG 5:1012c (found by text match)
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/8/1/

Summary: Christ, our hope, bore our sins on the cross without sin of his own and endured everything so that we might live in him.

## Greek text

Ἀδιαλείπτως οὖν προσκαρτερῶμεν τῇ ἐλπίδι ἡμῶν καὶ τῷ ἀρραβῶνι τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἡμῶν, ὅς ἐστι Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς, ὃς ἀνήνεγκεν ἡμῶν τὰς ἁμαρτίας τῷ ἰδίῳ σώματι ἐπὶ τὸ ξύλον, ὃς ἁμαρτίαν οὐκ ἐποίησεν, οὐδὲ εὑρέθη δόλος ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτοῦ· ἀλλὰ διʼ ἡμᾶς, ἵνα ζήσωμεν ἐν αὐτῷ, πάντα ὑπέμεινεν.

## English translation (Claude)

Let us therefore hold fast unceasingly to our hope and to the pledge of our righteousness, who is Christ Jesus, “who bore our sins in his own body on the tree,” “who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth”; but for our sake, so that we might live in him, he endured everything.

## Scripture references

- 1 Tim 1:1: allusion, medium confidence
- 1 Pet 2:24: quotation, high confidence
- 1 Pet 2:22: quotation, high confidence

## Translation notes

- “Pledge” (ἀρραβών): a down payment guaranteeing the rest.

## Citation (SBL)

Pol. Phil. 8.1 (PG 5:1012c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/8/1/).