{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">It is better for a man to be silent\r\nand be [a Christian], than to talk\r\nand not to be one. “The kingdom\r\nof God is not in word, but in\r\npower.”<a id=\"r849\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f849\"><sup>[849]</sup></a> Men “believe with the\r\nheart, and confess with the mouth,”\r\nthe one “unto righteousness,” the\r\nother “unto salvation.”<a id=\"r850\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f850\"><sup>[850]</sup></a> It is good\r\nto teach, if he who speaks also acts.\r\nFor he who shall both “do and\r\nteach, the same shall be great in\r\nthe kingdom.”<a id=\"r851\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f851\"><sup>[851]</sup></a> Our Lord and God,\r\nJesus Christ, the Son of the living\r\nGod, first did and then taught,\r\nas Luke testifies, “whose praise\r\nis in the gospel through all the\r\nchurches.”<a id=\"r852\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f852\"><sup>[852]</sup></a> There is nothing which\r\nis hid from the Lord, but our very\r\nsecrets are near to Him. Let us\r\ntherefore do all things as those\r\nwho have Him dwelling in us, that\r\nwe may be His temples,<a id=\"r853\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f853\"><sup>[853]</sup></a> and He\r\nmay be in us as God. Let Christ\r\nspeak in us, even as He did in\r\nPaul. Let the Holy Spirit teach\r\nus to speak the things of Christ in\r\nlike manner as He did.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. xv.—Exhortation to confess Christ by silence as well as speech."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-263"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e9a5d05abf04309ba429327b0556801abff11be6cca5d7aedf394115103bb367","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. x. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f850","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":"f850","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f850\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r850\">850</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Romans\">Rom.</abbr> <abbr title=\"ten\">x.</abbr> 10.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f850","text_sha256":"bd00b05d220c18e80ab2f729ab116f262feb74383ba15a8dcb8fa449939a15a3","verified":false,"work_id":null}