{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">For Trajan, in the ninth<a id=\"r1431\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1431\"><sup>[1431]</sup></a> year of his reign, being lifted\r\nup [with pride], after the victory he had gained over the\r\nScythians and Dacians, and many other nations, and thinking\r\nthat the religious body of the Christians were yet wanting to\r\ncomplete the subjugation of all things to himself, and [thereupon]\r\nthreatening them with persecution unless they should\r\nagree to<a id=\"r1432\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1432\"><sup>[1432]</sup></a> worship dæmons, as did all other nations, thus\r\ncompelled<a id=\"r1433\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1433\"><sup>[1433]</sup></a> all who were living godly lives either to sacrifice\r\n[to idols] or die. Wherefore the noble soldier of Christ\r\n[Ignatius], being in fear for the church of the Antiochians,\r\nwas, in accordance with his own desire, brought before\r\nTrajan, who was at that time staying at Antioch, but was in\r\nhaste [to set forth] against Armenia and the Parthians. And\r\nwhen he was set before the emperor Trajan, [that prince] said\r\nunto him, “Who art thou, wicked wretch,<a id=\"r1434\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1434\"><sup>[1434]</sup></a> who settest<a id=\"r1435\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1435\"><sup>[1435]</sup></a> thyself\r\nto transgress our commands, and persuadest others to do\r\nthe same, so that they should miserably perish?” Ignatius\r\nreplied, “No one ought to call Theophorus<a id=\"r1436\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1436\"><sup>[1436]</sup></a> wicked; for all\r\nevil spirits<a id=\"r1437\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1437\"><sup>[1437]</sup></a> have departed from the servants of God. But if,\r\nbecause I am an enemy to these [spirits], you call me wicked\r\nin respect to them, I quite agree with you; for inasmuch as\r\nI have Christ the King of heaven [within me], I destroy all\r\nthe devices of these [evil spirits].” Trajan answered, “And\r\nwho is Theophorus?” Ignatius replied, “He who has Christ\r\nwithin his breast.” Trajan said, “Do <i>we</i> not then seem to\r\nyou to have the gods in our mind, whose assistance we enjoy\r\nin fighting against our enemies?” Ignatius answered, “Thou\r\nart in error when thou callest the dæmons of the nations gods.\r\nFor there is but one God, who made heaven, and earth, and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_293\">293</span>the sea, and all that are in them; and one Jesus Christ, the\r\nonly-begotten Son of God, whose kingdom may I enjoy.”\r\nTrajan said, “Do you mean him who was crucified under\r\nPontius Pilate?” Ignatius replied, “I mean Him who\r\ncrucified my sin, with him who was the inventor of it,<a id=\"r1438\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1438\"><sup>[1438]</sup></a>\r\nand who has condemned [and cast down] all the deceit and\r\nmalice of the devil under the feet of those who carry Him in\r\ntheir heart.” Trajan said, “Dost thou then carry within\r\nthee Him that was crucified?” Ignatius replied, “Truly so;\r\nfor it is written, ‘I will dwell in them, and walk in them.’”<a id=\"r1439\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1439\"><sup>[1439]</sup></a>\r\nThen Trajan pronounced sentence as follows: “We command\r\nthat Ignatius, who affirms that he carries about within\r\nhim Him that was crucified, be bound by soldiers, and carried\r\nto the great [city] Rome, there to be devoured by the beasts,\r\nfor the gratification of the people.” When the holy martyr\r\nheard this sentence, he cried out with joy, “I thank thee, O\r\nLord, that Thou hast vouchsafed to honour me with a perfect\r\nlove towards Thee, and hast made me to be bound with iron\r\nchains, like<a id=\"r1440\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1440\"><sup>[1440]</sup></a> Thy Apostle Paul.” Having spoken thus, he\r\nthen, with delight, clasped the chains about him; and when\r\nhe had first prayed for the church, and commended it with\r\ntears to the Lord, he was hurried away by the savage<a id=\"r1441\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1441\"><sup>[1441]</sup></a> cruelty\r\nof the soldiers, like a distinguished ram, the leader of a goodly\r\nflock, that he might be carried to Rome, there to furnish food\r\nto the bloodthirsty beasts.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE MARTYRDOM OF IGNATIUS.","THE MARTYRDOM OF IGNATIUS.","Chap. ii.—Ignatius is condemned by Trajan."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-624"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c6c0b369059183971c5caeaede00f2600ece7b4a9f7530c76ea8281f0fe38d06","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2CO","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Cor. vi. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1439","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. 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