Examples of using Polycrates in English and their translations into German
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Polycrates, bishop of Ephesus towards the end of the 2nd cent.
Its wealth drew to it the Samians in revolt against Polycrates.
While Polycrates confirmed this for the second century when he wrote.
Dipteral ion handle establishes during the tyranny of Polycrates 538-522 B. C.
He begged Polycrates to take his most valuable ring and throw it in the sea, and so he did.
The next day, a fisherman offers him a large fish and Polycrates' cook discovers the ring inside of it.
Polycrates probably would not have been one of a line of bishops if all bishops and church leaders practiced celibacy.
In the closing decades of the second century, Polycrates, a faithful church leader who had been personally trained by Polycarp, arose….
Yet, the Roman Catholic Church endorses Easter Sunday--a position that the early church inAsia refused to accept as Polycrates previous testimony shows.
And I also, Polycrates, the least of you all, do according to the tradition of my relatives, some of whom I have closely followed.
I, therefore, brethren, who have lived sixty-five years in the Lord, and have met with the brethren throughout the world,and have gone through every Holy Scripture Polycrates.
This was continued by Melito(another saint according to the Orthodox andCatholic religions) and Polycrates, who also continued to keep the Days of Unleavened Bread.
In fact the rampant successes of Polycrates alarmed his friend and ally, King Amasis of Egypt, who had the wholesome dread of the ancients for the" jealousy" of the gods;
They should not push their luck too much, for the present Luck of Jews is a dangerous reminder a Friedrich Schiller's poem(based on a story by Herodotus)about the extremely lucky Polycrates.
This king, made of alliances with Crœsus of Lydia, Polycrates of Samos, and Battus of Cyrene during a reign of 46 years, devoted himself to promoting the internal prosperity of Egypt.
Among them were Polycarp of Smyrna, Papias of Hierapolis, Apolinarius of Hierapolis, Melito of Sardis,and others less known but honorably mentioned in the letter of Polycrates of Ephesus to bishop Victor of Rome A. D. 190.
After Polycrates and Apollonius, the official history(with Eusebius the main writer) says almost nothing about the true church in Ephesus, though a compromised church from there develops importance in the fourth century.
In my opinion, Diogenes Laertius's point is confirmed by the fact that six years afterSocrates had been put to death, Polycrates circulated a writing of his in which he gave his own version of Socrates's prosecution.
He, however, judging from it that Polycrates was inevitably doomed by heaven, ended his alliance with Samos on the naive plea that he should be sorry to have anything happen to a friend, and therefore proposed to make of Polycrates an enemy, that he need not grieve whe.
Notice that although the Roman Catholics claim the church always accepted Roman papal authority,from John to Polycarp to Polycrates to present, the COG has never accepted the authority of the Bishop of Rome(called pope since the late 4th Century) to establish doctrine.
The fact that the Council of Nicea declared Sunday to be the day of worship, instead of the seventh day Sabbath AND declared that Passover was to be observed on a Sunday andnot on Nisan 14 as Polycarp and Polycrates declared they learned from the Apostles and the Gospel(see Eusebius' Church History) forced those who were faithful to the Gospel and those particular teachings to distance themselves from what became the predominant Church.