# To the Philippians 8.2

- 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 24:292–294; 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/8/2/

Summary: Believers should imitate Christ's endurance and glorify him when they suffer for his name.

## Greek text

μιμηταὶ οὖν γενώμεθα τῆς ὑπομονῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐὰν πάσχωμεν διὰ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, δοξάζωμεν αὐτόν. τοῦτον γὰρ ἡμῖν τὸν ὑπογραμμὸν ἔθηκε διʼ ἑαυτοῦ, καὶ ἡμεῖς τοῦτο ἐπιστεύσαμεν.

## English translation (Claude)

Let us then become imitators of his endurance, and if we suffer for his name, let us glorify him. For this is the example he set for us in his own person, and this is what we have believed.

## Scripture references

- 1 Pet 2:21: allusion, high confidence
- 1 Pet 4:16: allusion, medium confidence

## Citation (SBL)

Pol. Phil. 8.2 (PG 5:1012c; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/8/2/).