{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">These things, brethren, I write to you concerning righteousness,\r\nnot because I take anything upon myself, but because\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_71\">71</span>ye have invited me to do so. For neither I, nor any other\r\nsuch one, can come up to the wisdom<a id=\"r336\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f336\"><sup>[336]</sup></a> of the blessed and glorified\r\nPaul. He, when among you, accurately and stedfastly\r\ntaught the word of truth in the presence of those who were\r\nthen alive. And when absent from you, he wrote you a letter,<a id=\"r337\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f337\"><sup>[337]</sup></a>\r\nwhich, if you carefully study, you will find to be the means\r\nof building you up in that faith which has been given you,\r\nand which, being followed by hope, and preceded by love\r\ntowards God, and Christ, and our neighbour, “is the mother\r\nof us all.”<a id=\"r338\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f338\"><sup>[338]</sup></a> For if any one be inwardly possessed of these\r\ngraces, he hath fulfilled the command of righteousness, since\r\nhe that hath love is far from all sin.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP.","THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP TO THE PHILIPPIANS.","Chap. iii.—Expressions of personal unworthiness."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-124"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"26028bcba4b3b839101313226734347ca2c1a70949c6e411a2b540569cea7dfc","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2PE","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Pet. iii. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f336","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":"f336","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f336\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r336\">336</a>. </span>Comp. 2 <abbr title=\"Peter\">Pet.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 15.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f336","text_sha256":"c9f7fe04598bf1b6ff8180c8d369910e2d345d23cc30dd910856d8648e0a9c46","verified":false,"work_id":null}