Join St Shenouda Podcast as we delve into the Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians. Written by Polycarp, the Bishop of Smyrna and a crucial figure among the Apostolic Fathers, this letter offers profound early Christian instruction to the Church of God dwelling at Philippi.

The epistle is widely believed to be a composite of material written at two different times during the first half of the second century. Part of the letter (Chapter 13) served as a Cover Letter, transmitting the collected epistles of Ignatius of Antioch to the Philippians, as they had requested. The main body (Chapters 1–12), sometimes called the Crisis Letter, addresses issues within the Philippian community.

Polycarp extensively draws on and cites Sacred Scriptures, resulting in a text described as "pastiche-li ...