{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Ye have never envied\r\nany one; ye have taught\r\nothers. Now I desire\r\nthat those things may\r\nbe confirmed [by your\r\nconduct], which in your\r\ninstructions ye enjoin\r\n[on others]. Only request\r\nin my behalf both\r\ninward and outward\r\nstrength, that I may not\r\nonly speak, but [truly]\r\nwill; and that I may\r\nnot merely be called a\r\nChristian, but really be\r\nfound to be one. For\r\nif I be truly found [a\r\nChristian], I may also\r\nbe called one, and be\r\nthen deemed faithful,\r\nwhen I shall no longer\r\nappear to the world.\r\nNothing visible is eternal.<a id=\"r1096\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1096\"><sup>[1096]</sup></a>\r\n“For the things\r\nwhich are seen are temporal,\r\nbut the things\r\nwhich are not seen are\r\neternal.”<a id=\"r1097\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1097\"><sup>[1097]</sup></a> For our God,\r\nJesus Christ, now that\r\nHe is with<a id=\"r1098\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1098\"><sup>[1098]</sup></a> the Father,\r\nis all the more revealed\r\n[in His glory]. Christianity\r\nis not a thing<a id=\"r1099\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1099\"><sup>[1099]</sup></a> of\r\nsilence only, but also of\r\n[manifest] greatness.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE ROMANS.","Chap. iii.—Pray rather that I may attain to martyrdom."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-420"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2d8c01cb30fa75e67888906a47550423a22f3ab30b4117a046e8e60ad6509e1f","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-f1096","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":"f1096","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1096\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1096\">1096</a>. </span>Some read, “good.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1096","text_sha256":"bbf2772fc8ad552954070a875c4fcb27a967958a8ffceb34591ae9a21e7447fa","verified":false,"work_id":null}