Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I write to all the churches, and declare to all men, that I\r\nwillingly die for the sake of God, if so be that ye hinder me\r\nnot. I entreat of you not to be [affected] towards me with a\r\nlove which is unseasonable. Leave me to become [the prey\r\nof] the beasts, that by their means I may be accounted worthy:\r\nof God. I am the wheat of God, and by the teeth of the\r\nbeasts I shall be ground,<a id=\"r1415\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1415\"><sup>[1415]</sup></a> that I may be found the pure bread\r\nof God. Provoke ye greatly<a id=\"r1416\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1416\"><sup>[1416]</sup></a> the wild beasts, that they may\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_283\">283</span>be for me a grave, and may leave nothing of my body, in\r\norder that, when I have fallen asleep, I may not be a burden\r\nupon any one. Then shall I be in truth a disciple of Jesus\r\nChrist, when the world seeth not even my body. Entreat of\r\nour Lord in my behalf, that through these instruments I\r\nmay be found a sacrifice to God. I do not, like Peter and\r\nPaul, issue orders unto you. They are<a id=\"r1417\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1417\"><sup>[1417]</sup></a> apostles, but I am\r\none condemned; they indeed are free, but I am a slave,\r\neven until now. But if I suffer, I shall be the freed-man of\r\nJesus Christ, and I shall rise in Him from the dead, free.\r\nAnd now being in bonds, I learn to desire nothing.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS AFTER THE SYRIAC VERSION.","THE THIRD EPISTLE OF THE SAME ST IGNATIUS.","Chap. iv."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-615"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"37434938cd3cee8d82d5dec6ef99306b9d54aa10247ac4c7f581ab15807e5c8c","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-f1415","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":"f1415","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1415\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1415\">1415</a>.  </span>Literally, “I am ground.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1415","text_sha256":"ba740d6b8183db4624d03e6732e96f54e9d71727ab11df3ed30036bc3f961374","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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