Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?
Polycarpby grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him, 'we shall also reign together with Him,' provided only we believe . . .
PolycarpEighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved Me?....I bless Thee for deigning me worthy of this day and this hour that I may be among Thy martyrs and drink the cup of my Lord Jesus Christ.
PolycarpLet us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.
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