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| Chapter XXII.—Salutation.
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We wish you, brethren,
all happiness, while you walk according to the doctrine of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ; with whom be glory to God the Father and the Holy Spirit,
for the salvation of His holy elect, after whose example479
| 479 Literally, “according as.”
| the blessed Polycarp suffered, following in whose steps may we
too be found in the kingdom of Jesus Christ!
These things480
| 480 What follows is, of course, no part of the original
Epistle. | Caius transcribed from the copy of Irenæus (who
was a disciple of Polycarp), having himself been intimate with Irenæus.
And I Socrates transcribed them at Corinth from the copy of Caius. Grace
be with you all.
And I again, Pionius, wrote them from the previously
written copy, having carefully searched into them, and the blessed
Polycarp having
manifested them to me through a revelation,
even as I shall show in what follows. I have collected these things, when
they had almost faded away through the lapse of time, that the Lord Jesus
Christ may also gather me along with His elect into His heavenly kingdom,
to whom, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, be glory for ever and ever.
Amen. E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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