{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I have become acquainted with\r\nyour greatly-desired name in God,\r\nwhich ye have acquired by the\r\nhabit of righteousness, according\r\nto the faith and love in Christ\r\nJesus our Saviour. Being the\r\nfollowers<a id=\"r754\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f754\"><sup>[754]</sup></a> of the love of God\r\ntowards man, and stirring up<a id=\"r755\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f755\"><sup>[755]</sup></a>\r\nyourselves by the blood of Christ,\r\nyou have perfectly accomplished\r\nthe work which was beseeming to\r\nyou. For, on hearing that I came\r\nbound from Syria for the sake of\r\nChrist, our common hope, trusting\r\nthrough your prayers to be permitted\r\nto fight with beasts at\r\nRome, that so by martyrdom I\r\nmay indeed become the disciple of\r\nHim “who gave Himself for us,\r\nan offering and a sacrifice to God,”<a id=\"r756\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f756\"><sup>[756]</sup></a>\r\n[ye hastened to see me<a id=\"r757\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f757\"><sup>[757]</sup></a>]. I have\r\ntherefore received your whole multitude\r\nin the name of God, through\r\nOnesimus, a man of inexpressible\r\nlove,<a id=\"r758\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f758\"><sup>[758]</sup></a> and who is your bishop, whom\r\nI pray you by Jesus Christ to love,\r\nand that you would all seek to be\r\nlike him. Blessed be God, who has\r\ngranted unto you, who are yourselves\r\nso excellent, to obtain such\r\nan excellent bishop.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. i.—Praise of the Ephesians."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-207"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0462c1871f327162541513359c553a8072c97a1bcdd2535154e9e9d72680ad2d","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-f757","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":"f757","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f757\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r757\">757</a>. </span>This is wanting in the Greek.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f757","text_sha256":"daf741530161172f08e69ca294a69102906a3aeeed523d49adc2d4616c017fd6","verified":false,"work_id":null}