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The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

Chapter 2

"Wherefore, girding up your loins," "serve the Lord in fear"

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Text. Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Roberts and Donaldson, 1885. Public domain by age. The Ignatian letters follow the shorter recension, the seven letters generally accepted as genuine. These texts carry no verse numbers in the original; chapter divisions are the editors'.