{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Which bishop,<a id=\"r1142\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1142\"><sup>[1142]</sup></a> I\r\nknow, obtained the ministry\r\nwhich pertains to\r\nthe common [weal], not\r\nof himself, neither by\r\nmen,<a id=\"r1143\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1143\"><sup>[1143]</sup></a> nor through vainglory,\r\nbut by the love\r\nof God the Father, and\r\nthe Lord Jesus Christ;\r\nat whose meekness I am\r\nstruck with admiration,\r\nand who by his silence\r\nis able to accomplish\r\nmore than those who\r\nvainly talk. For he is in\r\nharmony with the commandments\r\n[of God],\r\neven as the harp is with\r\nits strings. Wherefore\r\nmy soul declares his\r\nmind towards God a\r\nhappy one, knowing it\r\nto be virtuous and perfect,\r\nand that his stability\r\nas well as freedom\r\nfrom all anger is after\r\nthe example of the infinite<a id=\"r1144\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1144\"><sup>[1144]</sup></a> meekness of the\r\nliving God.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE PHILADELPHIANS.","Chap. i.—Praise of the bishop."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-456"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"75374e81f3ec330378b4737cdcc6dc31c0e6abd43bc98c40e0fe27e1d49984aa","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-f1142","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":"f1142","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1142\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1142\">1142</a>. </span>The bishop previously referred to.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1142","text_sha256":"f12b66072956298af7f571c2d2072e3af25d33e06c5e7b924bc0c89d3e20dc3c","verified":false,"work_id":null}