{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I write to the churches,\r\nand impress on them all,\r\nthat I shall willingly die\r\nfor God, unless ye hinder\r\nme. I beseech of\r\nyou not to show an unseasonable\r\ngood-will towards\r\nme. Suffer me\r\nto become food for the\r\nwild beasts, through\r\nwhose instrumentality\r\nit will be granted me to\r\nattain to God. I am\r\nthe wheat of God, and\r\nlet me be ground by the\r\nteeth of the wild beasts,\r\nthat I may be found the\r\npure bread of Christ.\r\nRather entice the wild\r\nbeasts, that they may\r\nbecome my tomb, and\r\nmay leave nothing of\r\nmy body; so that when\r\nI have fallen asleep [in\r\ndeath], I may be no\r\ntrouble to any one.\r\nThen shall I truly be a\r\ndisciple of Christ, when\r\nthe world shall not see\r\nso much as my body.\r\nEntreat Christ for me,\r\nthat by these instruments<a id=\"r1104\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1104\"><sup>[1104]</sup></a>\r\nI may be found\r\na sacrifice [to God]. I\r\ndo not, as Peter and\r\nPaul, issue commandments\r\nunto you. They\r\nwere apostles; I am\r\nbut a condemned man:\r\nthey were free,<a id=\"r1105\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1105\"><sup>[1105]</sup></a> while I\r\nam, even until now, a\r\nservant. But when I\r\nsuffer, I shall be the\r\nfreed-man of Jesus, and\r\nshall rise again emancipated\r\nin Him. And\r\nnow, being a prisoner, I\r\nlearn not to desire anything\r\nworldly or vain.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE ROMANS.","Chap. iv.—Allow me to fall a prey to the wild beasts."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-424"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6f41a421cc9a1bdbf28875b4d5bc24697facc5c5ddbd740fa068b8868cb7df43","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-f1104","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":"f1104","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1104\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1104\">1104</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\"><i>i.e.</i></abbr> by the teeth of the wild beasts.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1104","text_sha256":"1812af66cc371fbaab4249d21ba08006bd2fb85c6bccc824ea1789f8c4f2c351","verified":false,"work_id":null}