Chapter 1
1 by apostolic mind and an undivided spirit in patient endurance, not by practice but by nature, as Polybius your bishop made clear to me—he who came to me by the will of God and Jesus Christ in Smyrna and so rejoiced with me as I was bound in Christ Jesus, so that I see your whole congregation in him through contemplation.[1]
2 Having received, then, the goodwill that comes from God through him, I gave glory, finding you to be, as I have come to know, imitators.