{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">In like manner, let\r\nall reverence the deacons\r\nas an appointment<a id=\"r995\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f995\"><sup>[995]</sup></a>\r\nof Jesus Christ, and the\r\nbishop as Jesus Christ,\r\nwho is the Son of the\r\nFather, and the presbyters\r\nas the sanhedrim\r\nof God, and assembly\r\nof the apostles. Apart\r\nfrom these, there is no\r\nchurch.<a id=\"r996\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f996\"><sup>[996]</sup></a> Concerning\r\nall this, I am persuaded\r\nthat ye are of the same\r\nopinion. For I have\r\nreceived the manifestation<a id=\"r997\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f997\"><sup>[997]</sup></a>\r\nof your love, and\r\nstill have it with me, in\r\nyour bishop, whose very\r\nappearance is highly instructive,<a id=\"r998\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f998\"><sup>[998]</sup></a>\r\nand his meekness\r\nof itself a power;\r\nwhom I imagine even\r\nthe ungodly must reverence,\r\nseeing they are<a id=\"r999\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f999\"><sup>[999]</sup></a>\r\nalso pleased that I do\r\nnot spare myself. But\r\nshall I, when permitted\r\nto write on this point,\r\nreach such a height of\r\nself-esteem, that though\r\nbeing a condemned<a id=\"r1000\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1000\"><sup>[1000]</sup></a>\r\nman, I should issue\r\ncommands to you as if\r\nI were an apostle?</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE TRALLIANS.","Chap. iii.—Honour the deacons, etc."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-364"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"73ea51dfd8a6927fd8ac29f5b6a3c340a4b986a0deec3f7ca8d7b5669d17470c","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-f998","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":"f998","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f998\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r998\">998</a>. </span>Literally, “great instruction.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f998","text_sha256":"b9064fd37b045281a4ad3962490b5c298fd06edb536bd43ad3805b7325feafcc","verified":false,"work_id":null}