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The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians · Chapter VIII

Persevere in Hope and Patience

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Let us then continually persevere in our hope, and the earnest of our righteousness, which is Jesus Christ, "who bore our sins in His own body on the tree,"384 "who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth,"385 but endured all things for us, that we might live in Him.386 Let us then be imitators of His patience; and if we suffer387 for His name's sake, let us glorify Him.388 For He has set us this example389 in Himself, and we have believed that such is the case.

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  3. 386

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  4. 387

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  5. 388

    Some read, "we glorify Him."

  6. 389

    Comp. .

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.