The library · Edition and sources
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
J. B. Lightfoot · Edition commentary
Translator and historical edition notes
Edition commentary
The three proceeding paragraphs as read in the Moscow ms.
About this reading layout
Source wording, punctuation, paragraph boundaries and supplied line breaks are retained. Long prose also has editorial reading breaks at sentence boundaries. Substantial passages already enclosed in double quotation marks are set apart; this does not identify their source or establish a connection.
These added breaks are reading aids, not claims about the original manuscript’s layout. Poetry is lineated only where the downloaded text supplies line breaks. References and edition notes remain with their text.