The Sacred Writings of St. Polycarp by St. Polycarp

Author:St. Polycarp [Unbekannt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion
ISBN: 9783849621575
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2012-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

I am greatly grieved for Valens, who was once a presbyter among you, because he so little understands the place that was given him [in the Church]. I exhort you, therefore, that ye abstain from covetousness, 61 and that ye be chaste and truthful. "Abstain from every form of evil." 62 For if a man cannot govern himself in such matters, how shall he enjoin them on others? If a man does not keep himself from covetousness, 63 he shall be defiled by idolatry, and shall be judged as one of the heathen. But who of us are ignorant of the judgment of the Lord? "Do we not know that the saints shall judge the world? "64 as Paul teaches. But I have neither seen nor heard of any such thing among you, in the midst of whom the blessed Paul laboured, and who are commended 65 in the beginning of his Epistle. For he boasts of you in all those Churches which alone then knew the Lord; but we [of Smyrna] had not yet known Him. I am deeply grieved, therefore, brethren, for him (Valens) and his wife; to whom may the Lord grant true repentance! And be ye then moderate in regard to this matter, and "do not count such as enemies," 66 but call them back as suffering and straying members, that ye may save your whole body. For by so acting ye shall edify yourselves. 67

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