“Wherefore gird up your loins and serve God in fear and truth, forsaking the vain and empty talking and the error of the many, for that ye have believed on Him that raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and gave unto him glory and a throne on His right hand; unto whom all things were made subject that are in heaven and that are on the earth; to whom every creature that has breath does service; who comes as judge of quick and dead; whose blood God will require of them that are disobedient unto Him.”
-- Polycarp (80-167 AD), elder in the congregation at Smyrna. This is an excerpt from his letter to the Phillipian Christians (130 AD?)
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