Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians on which our life both sprang up again, and the victory over death was obtained in Christ, whom the children of perdition, the enemies of the Saviour, deny, "whose god is their belly, who mind earthly things,"[61] Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians For if they had been branches of the Father, they would not have been "enemies of the cross of Christ,"[86] Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians Beware, therefore, of those that hasten to work mischief, those "enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose glory is in their shame."[26]