{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">But as to those whom we have named being young men,\r\ndo not, thou blessed one, have any apprehension. For I\r\nwould have you know that they are wise above the flesh, and\r\nare insensible to its passions, they themselves glowing with\r\nall the glory of a hoary head through their own<a id=\"r1994\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1994\"><sup>[1994]</sup></a> intrinsic\r\nmerits, and though but recently called as young men to\r\nthe priesthood.<a id=\"r1995\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1995\"><sup>[1995]</sup></a> Now, call thou into exercise<a id=\"r1996\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1996\"><sup>[1996]</sup></a> thy thoughts\r\nthrough the Spirit that God has given to thee by Christ,\r\nand thou wilt remember<a id=\"r1997\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1997\"><sup>[1997]</sup></a> that Samuel, while yet a little child,\r\nwas called a seer, and was reckoned in the company of the\r\nprophets, that he reproved the aged Eli for transgression, since\r\nhe had honoured his infatuated sons above God the author\r\nof all things, and had allowed them to go unpunished, when\r\nthey turned the office of the priesthood into ridicule, and\r\nacted violently towards the people.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","APPENDIX. THE SPURIOUS EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS.","THE EPISTLE OF MARIA THE PROSELYTE TO IGNATIUS.","Chap. ii.—Youth may be allied with piety and discretion."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-858"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"753c9352526c833bf055013b83483dfefcd4f0fb6d63abf40d68f4a186b20f4e","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-f1995","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":"f1995","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1995\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1995\">1995</a>. </span>Literally, “in recent newness of priesthood.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1995","text_sha256":"1511c8e5c2e3d90300a5fb6eaa086829d27282cba3e12d5d7cd6b38afcf5a35f","verified":false,"work_id":null}