Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I have become acquainted\r\nwith your\r\nname, much-beloved in\r\nGod, which ye have acquired\r\nby the habit of\r\nrighteousness, according\r\nto the faith and\r\nlove in Jesus Christ\r\nour Saviour. Being the\r\nfollowers<a id=\"r748\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f748\"><sup>[748]</sup></a> of God, and\r\nstirring up<a id=\"r749\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f749\"><sup>[749]</sup></a> yourselves\r\nby the blood of God,\r\nye have perfectly accomplished\r\nthe work\r\nwhich was beseeming\r\nto you. For, on hearing\r\nthat I came bound\r\nfrom Syria for the common\r\nname and hope,\r\ntrusting through your\r\nprayers to be permitted\r\nto fight with beasts at\r\nRome, that so by martyrdom\r\nI may indeed\r\nbecome the disciple of\r\nHim “who gave Himself\r\nfor us, an offering\r\nand sacrifice to God,”<a id=\"r750\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f750\"><sup>[750]</sup></a>\r\n[ye hastened to see me<a id=\"r751\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f751\"><sup>[751]</sup></a>].\r\nI received, therefore,<a id=\"r752\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f752\"><sup>[752]</sup></a>\r\nyour whole multitude\r\nin the name of God,\r\nthrough Onesimus, a\r\nman of inexpressible\r\nlove,<a id=\"r753\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f753\"><sup>[753]</sup></a> and your bishop\r\nin the flesh, whom I\r\npray you by Jesus\r\nChrist to love, and that\r\nyou would all seek to\r\nbe like him. And\r\nblessed be He who has\r\ngranted unto you, being\r\nworthy, to obtain such\r\nan excellent bishop.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. i.—Praise of the Ephesians."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-205"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a0dacb37ce9cd74b8265e52940b8b439803798efe91b3ce5b6502f7b82c71b5b","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-f752","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":"f752","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f752\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r752\">752</a>.  </span>Literally, “since therefore,” without any apodosis.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f752","text_sha256":"694bab352c4b056f9f5ebe97c7470cb2586f0722ed48d7bd8c811e6f70053dec","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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