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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Our apostles also knew, through our Lord Jesus Christ,\r\nthat there would be strife on account of the office<a id=\"r187\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f187\"><sup>[187]</sup></a> of the\r\nepiscopate. For this reason, therefore, inasmuch as they had\r\nobtained a perfect fore-knowledge of this, they appointed\r\nthose [ministers] already mentioned, and afterwards gave instructions,<a id=\"r188\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f188\"><sup>[188]</sup></a>\r\nthat when these should fall asleep, other approved\r\nmen should succeed them in their ministry. We are of\r\nopinion, therefore, that those appointed by them,<a id=\"r189\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f189\"><sup>[189]</sup></a> or afterwards\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_39\">39</span>by other eminent men, with the consent of the whole\r\nchurch, and who have blamelessly served the flock of Christ,\r\nin a humble, peaceable, and disinterested spirit, and have for\r\na long time possessed the good opinion of all, cannot be\r\njustly dismissed from the ministry. For our sin will not be\r\nsmall, if we eject from the episcopate<a id=\"r190\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f190\"><sup>[190]</sup></a> those who have blamelessly\r\nand holily fulfilled its duties.<a id=\"r191\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f191\"><sup>[191]</sup></a> Blessed are those presbyters\r\nwho, having finished their course before now, have\r\nobtained a fruitful and perfect departure [from this world];\r\nfor they have no fear lest any one deprive them of the place\r\nnow appointed them. But we see that ye have removed\r\nsome men of excellent behaviour from the ministry, which\r\nthey fulfilled blamelessly and with honour.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xliv.—The ordinances of the apostles, that there might be no contention respecting the priestly office."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-88"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8b18b84bd8cbb66930eb586255758c58ea2be3618f972df29ef9a65ebb5a8a24","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-f188","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":"f188","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f188\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r188\">188</a>. </span>The meaning of this passage is much controverted. Some render,\r\n“left a list of other approved persons;” while others translate the\r\nunusual word ἐπινομὴ, which causes the difficulty, by “testamentary\r\ndirection,” and many others deem the text corrupt. We have given what\r\nseems the simplest version of the text as it stands.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f188","text_sha256":"b9abe61b4cff769b0c0e925f58a72eb68af3d5ddf0326d8afbfc3a128d1e2e4c","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f188