{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">For, since ye are subject\r\nto the bishop as to\r\nJesus Christ, ye appear\r\nto me to live not after\r\nthe manner of men,\r\nbut according to Jesus\r\nChrist, who died for us,\r\nin order, by believing in\r\nHis death, ye may escape\r\nfrom death. It is therefore\r\nnecessary that, as\r\nye indeed do, so without\r\nthe bishop ye should do\r\nnothing, but should also\r\nbe subject to the presbytery,\r\nas to the apostle\r\nof Jesus Christ, who is\r\nour hope, in whom, if\r\nwe live, we shall [at last]\r\nbe found. It is fitting\r\nalso that the deacons, as\r\nbeing [the ministers] of\r\nthe mysteries of Jesus\r\nChrist, should in every\r\nrespect be pleasing to\r\nall.<a id=\"r993\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f993\"><sup>[993]</sup></a> For they are not\r\nministers of meat and\r\ndrink, but servants of\r\nthe church of God.\r\nThey are bound, therefore,\r\nto avoid all grounds\r\nof accusation [against\r\nthem], as they would do\r\nfire.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE TRALLIANS.","Chap. ii.—Be subject to the bishop, etc."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-360"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"419c1b7bfadc44545ea7dec8153e79168c35484e6f39318879a01d4f8e940d4d","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-f993","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":"f993","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f993\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r993\">993</a>. </span>It is doubtful whether this exhortation is addressed to the deacons\r\nor people; whether the former are urged in all respects to please the\r\nlatter, or the latter in all points to be pleased with the former.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f993","text_sha256":"a26148c5c5175db68229ad6ae9996ffaab66948c597353bd22dd4082bc8cfd0a","verified":false,"work_id":null}