Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Josiah also, beloved of God, when as yet he could scarcely\r\nspeak articulately, convicts those who were possessed of a\r\nwicked spirit as being false in their speech, and deceivers of\r\nthe people. He also reveals the deceit of the demons, and\r\nopenly exposes those that are no gods; yea, while yet an\r\ninfant he slays their priests, and overturns their altars, and\r\ndefiles the places where sacrifices were offered with dead\r\nbodies, and throws down the temples, and cuts down the\r\ngroves, and breaks in pieces the pillars, and breaks open the\r\ntombs of the ungodly, that not a relic of the wicked might\r\nany longer exist.<a id=\"r2003\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f2003\"><sup>[2003]</sup></a> To such an extent did he display zeal in\r\nthe cause of godliness, and prove himself a punisher of the\r\nungodly, while he as yet faltered in speech like a child.\r\nDavid, too, who was at once a prophet and a king, and the\r\nroot of our Saviour according to the flesh, while yet a youth\r\nis anointed by Samuel to be king.<a id=\"r2004\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f2004\"><sup>[2004]</sup></a> For he himself says in\r\na certain place, “I was small among my brethren, and the\r\nyoungest in the house of my father.”<a id=\"r2005\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f2005\"><sup>[2005]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","APPENDIX. THE SPURIOUS EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS.","THE EPISTLE OF MARIA THE PROSELYTE TO IGNATIUS.","Chap. iv.—The same subject continued."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-860"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"04cde52868e88c40e0f6a40b1feeb52f8ee6a480aaa303c0246b30d5d10504b0","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f2003","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f2003","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f2003\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r2003\">2003</a>.  </span>2 Kings <abbr title=\"twenty-two\">xxii.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-three\">xxiii.</abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f2003","text_sha256":"ffd169b6df5aaa43712e0de400bc2f49b9079ff040cf2bc489aff201703276e7","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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