Since, then, ye requested that we would at large make you acquainted with what really took place, we have for the present sent you this summary account through our brother Marcus. When, therefore, ye have yourselves read this epistle,[450] be pleased to send it to the brethren at a greater distance, that they also may glorify the Lord, who makes such choice of His own servants. To Him who is able to bring us all by His grace and goodness[451] into His everlasting kingdom, through His only-begotten Son Jesus Christ, to Him be glory, and honour, and power, and majesty, for ever. Amen. Salute all the saints. They that are with us salute you, and Evarestus, who wrote this epistle, with all his house. CHAP. XXI.—_The date of the martyrdom._ Now, the blessed Polycarp suffered martyrdom on the second day of the month Xanthicus just begun,[452] the seventh day before the Calends of May, on the great Sabbath, at the eighth hour.[453] He was taken by Herod, Philip the Trallian being high priest,[454] Statius Quadratus being proconsul, but Jesus Christ being King for ever, to whom be glory, honour, majesty, and an everlasting throne, from generation to generation. Amen. CHAP. XXII.—_Salutation._ We wish you, brethren, all happiness, while you walk according to the doctrine of the gospel of Jesus Christ; with whom be glory to God the Father and the Holy Spirit, for the salvation of His holy elect, after whose example[455] the blessed Polycarp suffered, following in whose steps may we too be found in the kingdom of Jesus Christ! These things[456] Caius transcribed from the copy of Irenæus (who was a disciple of Polycarp), having himself been intimate with Irenæus. And I Socrates transcribed them at Corinth from the copy of Caius. Grace be with you all. And I again, Pionius, wrote them from the previously written copy, having carefully searched into them, and the blessed Polycarp having manifested them to me through a revelation, even as I shall show in what follows. I have collected these things, when they had almost faded away through the lapse of time, that the Lord Jesus Christ may also gather me along with His elect into His heavenly kingdom, to whom, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Footnote 396: Some read, “Philadelphia,” but on inferior authority. Philomelium was a city of Phrygia. Footnote 397: The word in the original is παροικίαις, from which the English “parishes” is derived. Footnote 398: Literally, “who are more pious.” Footnote 399: The account now returns to the illustration of the statement made in the first sentence. Footnote 400: 1 Cor. ii. 9. Footnote 401: Or, “illustriously.” Footnote 402: Or, “said to him.” Footnote 403: Literally, “the nobleness of the God-loving and God-fearing race of Christians.” Footnote 404: Comp. Matt. x. 23. Footnote 405: