{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">If thou lovest the good disciples only, thou hast no grace;\r\n[but] rather subdue those that are evil by gentleness. All\r\n[sorts of] wounds are not healed by the same medicine.\r\nMitigate [the pain of] cutting<a id=\"r1387\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1387\"><sup>[1387]</sup></a> by tenderness. Be wise as\r\nthe serpent in everything, and innocent, with respect to those\r\nthings which are requisite, even as the dove. For this reason\r\nthou art [composed] of both flesh and spirit, that thou mayest\r\nentice<a id=\"r1388\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1388\"><sup>[1388]</sup></a> those things which are visible before thy face, and\r\nmayest ask, as to those which are concealed from thee, that\r\nthey [too] may be revealed to thee, in order that thou be deficient\r\nin nothing, and mayest abound in all gifts. The time\r\ndemands, even as a pilot does a ship, and as one who stands\r\nexposed to the tempest does a haven, that thou shouldst be\r\nworthy of God. Be thou watchful as an athlete of God.\r\nThat which is promised to us is life eternal, which cannot be\r\ncorrupted, of which things thou art also persuaded. In\r\neverything I will be instead<a id=\"r1389\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1389\"><sup>[1389]</sup></a> of thy soul, and my bonds which\r\nthou hast loved.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS AFTER THE SYRIAC VERSION.","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO POLYCARP.","Chap. ii."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-594"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0ff64019f6db1396584f30987b147a7118d8ac9a085df08edb76d1abe15d5258","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-f1388","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":"f1388","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1388\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1388\">1388</a>. </span>Or, “flatter,” probably meaning to “deal gently with.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1388","text_sha256":"22a946adea8d800d1cbe8c17468144233270caa574539fe1aaa7746e03dbc72d","verified":false,"work_id":null}