{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">The last times are come upon\r\nus. Let us therefore be of a reverent\r\nspirit, and fear the long-suffering\r\nof God, lest we despise\r\nthe riches of His goodness and\r\nforbearance.<a id=\"r826\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f826\"><sup>[826]</sup></a> For let us either\r\nfear the wrath to come, or let us\r\nlove the present joy in the life that\r\nnow is; and let our present and\r\ntrue joy be only this, to be found\r\nin Christ Jesus, that we may truly\r\nlive. Do not at any time desire so\r\nmuch as even to breathe apart from\r\nHim. For He is my hope; He is\r\nmy boast; He is my never-failing\r\nriches, on whose account I bear\r\nabout with me these bonds from\r\nSyria to Rome, these spiritual\r\njewels, in which may I be perfected\r\nthrough your prayers, and\r\nbecome a partaker of the sufferings\r\nof Christ, and have fellowship\r\nwith Him in His death, His resurrection from the dead, and His\r\neverlasting life.<a id=\"r827\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f827\"><sup>[827]</sup></a> May I attain to\r\nthis, so that I may be found in the\r\nlot of the Christians of Ephesus,\r\nwho have always had intercourse\r\nwith the apostles by the power of\r\nJesus Christ, with Paul, and John,\r\nand Timothy the most faithful.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. xi.—An exhortation to fear God, etc."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-247"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"088e09c270563e2a582d9bc5efba5d7d511ddc19aff4de256936bc9cbaae27be","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":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. ii. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f826","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":"f826","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f826\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r826\">826</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Romans\">Rom.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f826","text_sha256":"5dddf19f673aa46e9bbd10c87038d3ebe837136dcf4902ebd1de1463f727c2d4","verified":false,"work_id":null}