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The missive cautions against several disarrays in the church and against apostasy, and heartens the Christians to endure in good efforts. It also represented as a cover letter for a set of works by Ignatius of Antioch, whose writings were being compiled by the church at Philippi after Ignatius’ visit there. This is one citation from the epistle: “Stand fast, therefore, in this conduct and follow the example of the Lord, ‘firm and unchangeable in faith, lovers of the brotherhood, loving each other, united in truth,’ helping each other with the mildness of the Lord, despising no man.” Among the missive’s much significant aspects is its application and quotation of other first Christian works, a number of which afterward came to be a part of the New Testament.Polycarp was a 2nd century Christian bishop of Smyrna. Conferring to the Martyrdom of Polycarp he passed away a martyr, compelled and charred at the post, later pierced when the fire was not able to burn him. Polycarp is considered as a saint and Church Father in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches. Polycarp, his name is defined as many fruits in Greek.It is documented by Irenaeus, who listened to him express in his youth, and by Tertullian, that he had been a disciple of John the Apostle. Saint Jerome transcribed that Polycarp was a disciple of John and that John had ordained him as bishop of Smyrna.The primary custom that extended on the Martyrdom to connect Polycarp in struggle and distinction with John the Apostle who, although some people had attempted to kill him, was not martyred yet demised because of being an elderly after being expatriated to the Patmos island, is personified in the Coptic language fragmented papyri – the “Harris fragments” – dating to the 3rd to 6th centuries. The patron saint of İzmir is Polycarp.
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