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Polycarp

NOUN
  1. Greek bishop of Smyrna who refused to recant his Christian faith and was burned to death by pagans (circa 69-155)

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  • It is stated that all the Churches of Asia, including some of the most distinguished members of the Church, such as Polycarp, and his own contemporary Melito, celebrated the Christian festival on the Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
  • Coastal plains of the Northern Territory below the Gulf Fall and Uplands are vegetated by woodlands of Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta), while the Fall is covered by open eucalypt woodlands including Darwin box (E. tectifica) and long-fruited bloodwood (Corymbia polycarpa). Carpentaria tropical savanna
  • These be the words of Denis that he wrote in his epistle to Polycarp, and to Apollophanes, saying: We were, we twain, at Heliopolis, and we saw the moon of heaven go disordinately, and the time was not convenable. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
  • These Early Church Fathers such as Polycarp, Ignatius, and Clement knew the Apostles personally and were appointed to shepherd several local churches. LDS Doctrine
  • While the technical distinction between the latria due to God and the dulia permissible to the saints was only beginning to emerge in the patristic epoch, the consistent teaching of the Church, voiced as much by Polycarp’s devotees as by theologians like Augustine and Cyril of Alexandria, was that while the saints and martyrs deserved honor and devotion, only God could be worshiped.
  • The proconsul and the police captain tried to persuade Polycarp to save his life by saying ‘Caesar is Lord’ and sacrificing to the Roman gods.
  • Polycarp" included in the expression: "pervert the oracles of the A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays
  • -- circumstances might arise which might nullify part of my plan, unless a clear account of the affair should ultimately come into the hands of some person whom I could trust not to make a fool of himself -- such as Polycarp, my solicitor, for instance. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes
  • Eusebius had mentioned seven Epistles, but Ussher -- deceived by a mistake on the part of St. Jerome -- exscinded the Epistle to Polycarp, and condemned it as spurious. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
  • The second was Polycarp Kusch, a young experimentalist from the Middle West, with large angular movements and a loud assertive voice. How Nobel Prizewinners Get That Way
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