{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">The cross of Christ is indeed a\r\nstumbling-block to those that do\r\nnot believe, but to the believing\r\nit is salvation and life eternal.\r\n“Where is the wise man? where\r\nthe disputer?”<a id=\"r868\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f868\"><sup>[868]</sup></a> Where is the\r\nboasting of those who are called\r\nmighty? For the Son of God,\r\nwho was begotten before time\r\nbegan,<a id=\"r869\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f869\"><sup>[869]</sup></a> and established all things\r\naccording to the will of the Father,\r\nHe was conceived in the womb of\r\nMary, according to the appointment\r\nof God, of the seed of David,\r\nand by the Holy Ghost. For\r\nsays [the Scripture], “Behold, a\r\nvirgin shall be with child, and\r\nshall bring forth a son, and He\r\nshall be called Immanuel.”<a id=\"r870\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f870\"><sup>[870]</sup></a> He was\r\nborn and was baptized by John,\r\nthat He might ratify the institution\r\ncommitted to that prophet.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. xviii.—The glory of the cross."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-275"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"85bd196e55a3f1d86be347c7e757398346dbde267339d13ab29309b173bb9e88","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-f869","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":"f869","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f869\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r869\">869</a>. </span>Literally, “before the ages.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f869","text_sha256":"b1f373a833c4269e12e8ad9d143e721fedb0e28c30ff2a0d241e375446bd2fb4","verified":false,"work_id":null}