{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">All the pleasures of\r\nthe world, and all the\r\nkingdoms of this earth,<a id=\"r1118\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1118\"><sup>[1118]</sup></a>\r\nshall profit me nothing.\r\nIt is better for me to die\r\nin behalf of<a id=\"r1119\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1119\"><sup>[1119]</sup></a> Jesus\r\nChrist, than to reign\r\nover all the ends of the\r\nearth. “For what shall\r\na man be profited, if he\r\ngain the whole world,\r\nbut lose his own soul?”<a id=\"r1120\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1120\"><sup>[1120]</sup></a>\r\nHim I seek, who died\r\nfor us: Him I desire,\r\nwho rose again for our\r\nsake. This is the gain\r\nwhich is laid up for me.\r\nPardon me, brethren:\r\ndo not hinder me from\r\nliving, do not wish to\r\nkeep me in a state of\r\ndeath;<a id=\"r1121\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1121\"><sup>[1121]</sup></a> and while I desire\r\nto belong to God,\r\ndo not ye give me over\r\nto the world. Suffer\r\nme to obtain pure light:\r\nwhen I have gone\r\nthither, I shall indeed\r\nbe a man of God. Permit\r\nme to be an imitator\r\nof the passion of my\r\nGod. If any one has\r\nHim within himself, let\r\nhim consider what I desire,\r\nand let him have\r\nsympathy with me, as\r\nknowing how I am\r\nstraitened.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE ROMANS.","Chap. vi.—By death I shall attain true life."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-432"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"502134a59f619ad33f0715a9ab7fe855aa57124fbece503e8cc5f33a2b08b5b0","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-f1121","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":"f1121","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1121\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1121\">1121</a>. </span>Literally, “to die.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1121","text_sha256":"c1e11dea6ae0996af91859bf9f1e671c678b03ef395c2ff69b672eb933c6b314","verified":false,"work_id":null}