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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 1
… John himself, through Polycarp, and his master Irenæus; and, like his master, he confronts the Roman bishops of his time with a superior orthodoxy and with an authority more apostolic. [2] He illustrates in his …
2,246 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 113
… The spirit of Ignatius and of Polycarp is here clearly to be recognized in the fourth century.] [2259] [Another anachronism; but, as applied to the Alexandrian primate, it is a concession to truth. The word …
2,225 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 485
… 35.--Tr. [3092] See the letter of the Church of Smyrna on the martyrdom of Polycarp, and Euseb., Hist. Eccl., iv. 15; [also p. 664, note 4, supra]. [3093] Ps. xxxiv. 1. [3094] The particip …
2,218 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 3
… 347) and of the death of Athanasius (373, for which Socrates gives 371) are given wrong. St. Polycarp's martyrdom is also put out of its proper place by about one hundred years. [88] Valens …
2,247 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 313
… one baptism, and holiness, and the rest. For whatever is done without, has no effect of salvation. Polycarp from Adrumetum [4683] said: They who approve the baptism of heretics make void our baptism. Novatus of …
2,247 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 315
… Augustine calls this bishop Felix, and speaks of him as the first of that name who spoke.--Fell. [4683] This is the Polycarp referred to in Ep. xliv. p. 322, supra. Adrumetum was a colony …
2,238 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 10
… layer of the foundations of orthodoxy. [293] His death lacks the splendid triumph of the martyrdoms of Polycarp and Cyprian. His life lacks the vivid incidents which make the adventures of Athanasius an enthralling romance …
2,231 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 356
… glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them who have believed in Him." [4174] Polycarp, Papias, Pothinus, and others, have been suggested as probably here referred to, but the point is involved …
2,268 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 185
… Might I not array against you the whole series of ancient writers? Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenæus, Justin Martyr, and many other apostolic and eloquent men, who against Ebion, Theodotus of Byzantium, and Valentinus, held these same …
2,258 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 523
… Then there is Polycarp, both bishop and martyr at Smyrna; and Thraseas from Eumenia, both bishop and martyr, who rests at Smyrna. Why should I speak of Sagaris, bishop and martyr, who rests at Laodicea …
2,275 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 3
… 15, he speaks with evident approval of the prudent course pursued by Polycarp in preserving his life so long as he could without violating his Christian profession, and with manifest disapproval of the rash act …
2,270 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 200
… 150, and was co-temporary with Polycarp, who is said to have had a personal encounter with him at Rome. Unlike other Gnostics he professed to be purely Christian in his doctrines. He is specially …
2,271 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 25
… Christ by the very perfection of His humanity habitually living in such an ecstasy as that of Polycarp or Perpetua at their martyrdom, is a noble conception in itself and consistent with the Creeds, though …
2,318 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 229
… Cyprian, Cæcilius, Primus, Polycarp, Nicomedes, Lucilianus, Successus, Sedatus, Fortunatus, Januarius, Secundinus, Pomponius, Honoratus, Victor, Aurelius, Sattius, Petrus, another Januarius, Saturninus, another Aurelius, Venantius, Quietus, Rogatianus, Tenax, Felix, Faustinus, Quintus, another Saturninus, Lucius, Vincentius, Libosus, Geminius …
2,353 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 67
… It was known to Clement of Rome, Polycarp, Papias, Hermas, &c. (the Muratorian Fragment, however, omits it), and was cited under the name of Peter by Irenæus, Tertullian, and Clement of Alexandria, from whose time …
2,323 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 117
… You have heard too of Irenæus, who enjoyed the teaching of Polycarp, and became a light of the western Gauls;--of Hippolytus and Methodius, bishops and martyrs, and the rest, whose names I will append …
2,313 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 111
… But since we learn from chapter 14, below, that Polycarp was in Rome during the episcopate of Anicetus, and from other sources (see chapter 15, note 2) that he was martyred in Asia Minor in …
2,354 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 91
… It is a false rumour which has reached you to the effect that I have translated the books of Josephus [2249] and the volumes of the holy men Papias [2250] and Polycarp. [2251] I have …
2,344 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 180
… Time would fail me to tell of Polycarp, [2251] and Irenæus, [2252] of Methodius [2253] and Hippolytus, [2254] and the rest of the teachers of the Church. In a word I assert that I follow …
2,341 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 91
… Also that Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, who afterwards suffered martyrdom under Gordian, [778] continued to communicate with Anicetus bishop of Rome, although he himself, according to the usage of his native Smyrna, kept Easter on …
2,365 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 447
… And when he was old and changed, he ordered Polycarp to be bishop over the church. And what like his end was, or his departure from men, who cannot give an account of? For on …
2,360 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 395
… as follows: "For Irenæus Bishop of Lyons, who was a contemporary of the disciple of the apostle, Polycarp Bishop of Smyrna, and martyr, and for this reason is held in just estimation, wrote to an …
2,390 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 513
… He was an "Apostolic Father" in point of fact; he very probably knew the blessed Polycarp and his disciple Irenæus. He is justly revered for the diligence with which he sought out the evidence which …
2,382 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 360
… Irenæus may here mean the venerable martyr Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna." [4243] "Quassum et futile." The text varies much in the mss. [4244] Gen. i. 3. [4245] John i. 3. [4246] Eph. iv. 5, 6 …
2,427 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 24
… Irenæus, the contemporary of this Hermas, had received the traditions of the same age from Polycarp: hence the greater probability of my conjecture that the brother of Pius compiled many traditional prophesyings of the first …
2,426 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 172
… John and Atticus, loud heralds of the truth; and men of an earlier age than they, Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenæus, Justin, and Hippolytus, of whom the more part not only shine at the head of the …
2,471 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 8
… He is the successor of Ignatius and Polycarp. We find him, in sharp contrast to the Apologists, giving full expression to the revelation of God in Jesus (the Son is the Measure of the Father …
2,507 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 153
… spectacles at their own expense. Such were the Asiarchs, mentioned Acts xix. 31, and Mart. of St. Polycarp, c. 12. See note in ed. Jacobson. [1557] Chrysostom here alludes to the history of Job as …
2,599 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 282
… 3893]274. Plinthus, reconciles Arian factions, [3894]388. Plusian, a bishop, [3895]275. Polemics, deleterious, [3896]207. Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, [3897]390. Polychronius, a presbyter, aids Pulcheria in discovery of tomb of Forty Martyrs …
2,201 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 414
… Anicetus, bishop of Rome, [199]182, [200]183, [201]187, [202]197, [203]198, [204]199, [205]221, 243; concedes the administration of the Eucharist to Polycarp in Rome, [206]244. Annas, or Ananus, the …
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