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Ἔτεσι δὲ ὅλοις ἓξ Γορδιανοῦ τὴν Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίαν ἀνύσαντος Φίλιππος ἅμα παιδὶ Φιλίππῳ τὴν ἀρχὴν διαδέχεται. τοῦτον κατέχει λόγος Χριστιανὸν ὄντα ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τῆς ὑστάτης τοῦ πάσχα παννυχίδος τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας εὐχῶν τῷ πλήθει μετασχεῖν ἐθελῆσαι, οὐ πρότερον δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ τηνικάδε προεστῶτος ἐπιτραπῆναι εἰσβαλεῖν ἢ ἐξομολογήσασθαι, καὶ τοῖς ἐν παραπτώμασιν ἐξεταζομένοις μετανοίας τε χώραν ἴσχουσιν ἑαυτὸν καταλέξαι· ἄλλως γὰρ μὴ ἄν ποτε πρὸς αὐτοῦ, μὴ οὐχὶ τοῦτο ποιήσαντα, διὰ πολλὰς τῶν κατ αὐτὸν αἰτίας παραδεχθῆναι. καὶ πειθαρχῆσαί γε προθύμως λέγεται, τὸ γνήσιον καὶ εὐλαβὲς τῆς περὶ τὸν θεῖον φόβον διαθέσεως ἔργοις ἐπιδεδειγμένον.
戈爾迪安在羅馬政權上滿了整整六年後，腓力與他兒子腓力一同繼承了政權。有記載說，腓力本是基督徒，曾想在末次逾越節守夜禮那日，與會眾一同分享教會中的禱告，卻不被當時主理的人允許進入，除非他先認罪，並把自己列入那些因有過犯而受察驗、處於悔改地位之人中間；否則主理者斷不會收納他，倘若他不如此行，因有許多控告針對他。據說他甘心順從，以行為顯出他對敬畏神的心志何等真誠虔敬。
Now when Gordian had completed six entire years in the government of the Romans, Philip, together with his son Philip, succeeded to the rule. An account holds that, being a Christian, he wished on the day of the last paschal vigil to share with the multitude in the prayers in the church, but was not permitted to enter by him who then presided until he had made confession and enrolled himself among those who were examined as being in faults and who held a place of repentance; for otherwise he would never have been received by him, had he not done this, on account of the many charges against him. And he is said to have obeyed readily, displaying by deeds the genuineness and reverence of his disposition toward the fear of God.