Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians 7

1“For whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist;” and whosoever does not confess the testimony of the cross, is of the devil; and whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the first-born of Satan. Wherefore, forsaking the vanity of many, and their false doctrines, let us return to the word which has been handed down to us from the beginning; “watching unto prayer,” and persevering in fasting; beseeching in our supplications the all-seeing God “not to lead us into temptation,” as the Lord has said: “The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Πᾶς γάρ, ὃς ἄν μὴ ὁμολογῇ ᾿Ιηςοῦν Xpicton ἐν Ἵδρκὶ ἐληλγθένδι, ἀντίχριετός ἐετιν. καὶ ὃς ἂν μὴ ὁμολογῇ τὸ μαρ- ” * τύριον τοῦ σταυροῦ, ἐκ τοῦ διαβόλου ἐστίν" καὶ ὃς ἂν μεθο- δεύῃ τὰ λόγια τοῦ Κυρίου πρὸς ras ἰδίας ἐπιθυμίας, καὶ λέγει μήτε ἀνάστασιν μήτε κρίσιν, οὗτος πρωτότοκός ἐστι τοῦ Σατανᾶ. διὸ ἀπολιπόντες τὴν ματαιότητα τῶν πολ- λῶν καὶ τὰς ψευδοδιδασκαλίας ἐπὶ τὸν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἡμῖν παρα- δοθέντα λόγον ἐπιστρέψωμεν, νήφοντες πρὸς τὰς εὐχὰς καὶ “τροσκαρτεροῦντες νηστείαις, δεήσεσιν αἰτούμενοι τὸν παντ- επόπτην Θεὸν μὴ εἰςενεγκεῖν ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρδομόν, καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ Κύριος" τὸ μὲν πνεῦμδ npdeymon, ἡ Ad cdpz ἀσθενής. Ke ‘Matt.