{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Let not those who seem worthy\r\nof credit, but teach strange doctrines,<a id=\"r1337\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1337\"><sup>[1337]</sup></a>\r\nfill thee with apprehension.\r\nStand firm, as does an anvil which\r\nis beaten. It is the part of a noble<a id=\"r1338\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1338\"><sup>[1338]</sup></a>\r\nathlete to be wounded, and yet to\r\nconquer. And especially we ought\r\nto bear all things for the sake of\r\nGod, that He also may bear with\r\nus, and bring us into His kingdom.\r\nAdd more and more to thy\r\ndiligence; run thy race with increasing\r\nenergy; weigh carefully\r\nthe times. Whilst thou art here,\r\nbe a conqueror; for here is the\r\ncourse, and there are the crowns.\r\nLook for Christ, the Son of God;\r\nwho was before time, yet appeared\r\nin time; who was invisible by nature,\r\nyet visible in the flesh; who\r\nwas impalpable, and could not be\r\ntouched, as being without a body,\r\nbut for our sakes became such,\r\nmight be touched and handled in\r\nthe body; who was impassible as\r\nGod, but became passible for our\r\nsakes as man; and who in every\r\nkind of way suffered for our\r\nsakes.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO POLYCARP.","Chap. iii.—Exhortations."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-570"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"730e354cf41a1beb6d1728ab839958324d483a385974dde487ca7c153feb6435","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-f1338","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":"f1338","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1338\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1338\">1338</a>. </span>Literally, “great.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1338","text_sha256":"01ae286a4f7eff46b99c41d19788eb47d275a1187b2fe0a1a162510755225236","verified":false,"work_id":null}