Editing Polycarp (section)

== References ==

*1. Saint Polycarp at Encyclopædia Britannica
*2. Henry Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies, s.v. "Polycarpus, bishop of Smyrna".
*3. Traditional advocates follow Eusebius in insisting that the apostolic connection of Papius was with John the Evangelist, and that the author of the Gospel of John was the Apostle. Polycarp does not quote from the Gospel of John in his surviving letter, which may be an indication that whichever John he knew was not the author of that gospel, or that the gospel was not finished during Polycarp's discipleship with John.
*4. Liturgy of the Hours, Volume III, 23 February.
*5. Staniforth, Maxwell. Early Christian Writings. (Penguin Books: London, 1987), 115.
*6. Walsh, Michael, ed. Butler's Lives of the Saints. (HarperCollins Publishers: New York, 1991), 56.
*7. Martyrdom of Polycarp at Encyclopædia Britannica
*8. Hartog, Paul (2002). Polycarp and the New Testament. p. 17. ISBN 9783161474194. http://books.google.com/books?id=gTMTO_9li4cC. 
*9. Irenaeus, V.xxxii.
*10. Wikisource-logo.svg "Polycarp" in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
*11. Staniforth, Maxwell, trans. Early Christian Writings London: Penguin Books (1987): 115.
*12. Polycarp.net
*13. Cave, Primitive Christianity: or the Religion of the Ancient Christians in the First Ages of the Gospel. 1840, revised edition by H. Cary. Oxford, London, pp. 84-85).
*14. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses III.3.4