{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Nor is He a mere man, by whom and in whom all things\r\nwere made; for “all things were made by Him.”<a id=\"r1832\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1832\"><sup>[1832]</sup></a> “When\r\nHe made the heaven, I was present with Him; and I was\r\nthere with Him, forming [the world along with Him], and\r\nHe rejoiced in me daily.”<a id=\"r1833\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1833\"><sup>[1833]</sup></a> And how could a mere man be\r\naddressed in such words as these: “Sit Thou at my right\r\nhand?”<a id=\"r1834\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1834\"><sup>[1834]</sup></a> And how, again, could such an one declare:\r\n“Before Abraham was, I am?”<a id=\"r1835\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1835\"><sup>[1835]</sup></a> And, “Glorify me with\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_458\">458</span>Thy glory which I had before the world was?”<a id=\"r1836\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1836\"><sup>[1836]</sup></a> What man\r\ncould ever say, “I came down from heaven, not to do mine\r\nown will, but the will of Him that sent me?”<a id=\"r1837\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1837\"><sup>[1837]</sup></a> And of what\r\nman could it be said, “He was the true Light, which lighteth\r\nevery man that cometh into the world: He was in the world,\r\nand the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him\r\nnot. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not?”<a id=\"r1838\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1838\"><sup>[1838]</sup></a>\r\nHow could such a one be a mere man, receiving the beginning\r\nof His existence from Mary, and not rather God the\r\nWord, and the only-begotten Son? For “in the beginning\r\nwas the Word, and the Word was with God,<a id=\"r1839\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1839\"><sup>[1839]</sup></a> and the Word\r\nwas God.”<a id=\"r1840\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1840\"><sup>[1840]</sup></a> And in another place, “The Lord created me,\r\nthe beginning of His ways, for His works. Before the world\r\ndid He found me, and before all the hills did He beget me.”<a id=\"r1841\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1841\"><sup>[1841]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","APPENDIX. THE SPURIOUS EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS.","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE TARSIANS.","Chap. vi.—Continuation."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-809"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"81685d74b6002e48b4cac157936a5d292d41d5af2518eca81aafd94d7ce81eaf","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":110,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cx. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1834","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":"f1834","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1834\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1834\">1834</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"a hundred and ten\">cx.</abbr> 1.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1834","text_sha256":"ed0c3ed01103c59195d4fc605ebf9df16c7ca064b50d6edd15f9b253ac3e368c","verified":false,"work_id":null}