{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I am greatly grieved for Valens, who was once a presbyter\r\namong you, because he so little understands the place that\r\nwas given him [in the church]. I exhort you, therefore, that\r\nye abstain from covetousness,<a id=\"r375\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f375\"><sup>[375]</sup></a> and that ye be chaste and\r\ntruthful. “Abstain from every form of evil.”<a id=\"r376\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f376\"><sup>[376]</sup></a> For if a\r\nman cannot govern himself in such matters, how shall he\r\nenjoin them on others? If a man does not keep himself from\r\ncovetousness, he shall be defiled by idolatry, and shall be\r\njudged as one of the heathen. But who of us are ignorant\r\nof the judgment of the Lord? “Do we not know that the\r\nsaints shall judge the world?”<a id=\"r377\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f377\"><sup>[377]</sup></a> as Paul teaches. But I\r\nhave neither seen nor heard of any such thing among you,\r\nin the midst of whom the blessed Paul laboured, and who\r\nare commended<a id=\"r378\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f378\"><sup>[378]</sup></a> in the beginning of his epistle. For he\r\nboasts of you in all those churches which alone then knew\r\nthe Lord; but we [of Smyrna] had not yet known Him. I\r\nam deeply grieved, therefore, brethren, for him (Valens) and\r\nhis wife; to whom may the Lord grant true repentance!\r\nAnd be ye then moderate in regard to this matter, and “do\r\nnot count such as enemies,”<a id=\"r379\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f379\"><sup>[379]</sup></a> but call them back as suffering\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_76\">76</span>and straying members, that ye may save your whole body.\r\nFor by so acting ye shall edify yourselves.<a id=\"r380\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f380\"><sup>[380]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP.","THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP TO THE PHILIPPIANS.","Chap. xi.—Expression of grief on account of Valens."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-132"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"69e826e1a894ad879452fd53851927cb6c923f9faaab7b4fc37ce33315b04038","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-f375","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":"f375","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f375\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r375\">375</a>. </span>Some think that <i>incontinence</i> on the part of Valens and his wife is\r\nreferred to.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f375","text_sha256":"6832b5e264ed7f4f72a4c5f8065340eb23d458417d48b17539b488bc827127f3","verified":false,"work_id":null}