{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Seeing that the\r\nchurch which is at\r\nAntioch in Syria is, as\r\nreport has informed me,\r\nat peace, through your\r\nprayers, I also am the\r\nmore encouraged, resting\r\nwithout anxiety in\r\nGod,<a id=\"r1363\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1363\"><sup>[1363]</sup></a> if indeed by\r\nmeans of suffering I\r\nmay attain to God, so\r\nthat, through your\r\nprayers, I may be found\r\na disciple [of Christ].<a id=\"r1364\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1364\"><sup>[1364]</sup></a>\r\nIt is fitting, O Polycarp,\r\nmost blessed in\r\nGod, to assemble a very\r\nsolemn<a id=\"r1365\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1365\"><sup>[1365]</sup></a> council, and to\r\nelect one whom you\r\ngreatly love, and know\r\nto be a man of activity,\r\nwho may be designated\r\nthe messenger of God;<a id=\"r1366\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1366\"><sup>[1366]</sup></a>\r\nand to bestow on him\r\nthis honour that he may\r\ngo into Syria, and glorify\r\nyour ever active\r\nlove to the praise of\r\nChrist. A Christian\r\nhas not power over himself,\r\nbut must always\r\nbe ready for<a id=\"r1367\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1367\"><sup>[1367]</sup></a> the service\r\nof God. Now, this\r\nwork is both God’s and\r\nyours, when ye shall\r\nhave completed it to\r\nHis glory.<a id=\"r1368\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1368\"><sup>[1368]</sup></a> For I trust\r\nthat, through grace, ye\r\nare prepared for every\r\ngood work pertaining\r\nto God. Knowing,\r\ntherefore, your energetic\r\nlove of the truth,\r\nI have exhorted you by\r\nthis brief epistle.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO POLYCARP.","Chap. vii.—Request that Polycarp would send a messenger to Antioch."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-584"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"117bbbc54de322ae458e3fdb4d9b4cfa36a96a65464f9c95df44f37e28bb8eb8","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-f1365","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":"f1365","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1365\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1365\">1365</a>. </span>Literally, “most befitting God.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1365","text_sha256":"a88539376b2705824cb4d9eb703b33e2ad3069aae79012abccc690ee7ddd0ecb","verified":false,"work_id":null}