“Pray for all the saints. Pray also for kings, and potentates, and princes, and for those that persecute and hate you, and for the enemies of the cross, that your fruit may be manifest to all, and that ye may be perfect in Him.” Polycarp Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
“The deacons be blameless before the face of His righteousness, as being the servants of God and Christ.” Polycarp Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians