{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">From Syria even unto Rome I fight with beasts: not that\r\nI am devoured by brute beasts, for these, as ye know, by\r\nthe will of God, spared Daniel, but by beasts in the shape\r\nof men, in whom the merciless wild beast himself lies hid,\r\nand pricks and wounds me day by day. But none of these\r\nhardships “move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself,”<a id=\"r1813\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1813\"><sup>[1813]</sup></a>\r\nin such a way as to love it better than the Lord.\r\nWherefore I am prepared for [encountering] fire, wild beasts,\r\nthe sword, or the cross, so that only I may see Christ my\r\nSaviour and God, who died for me. I therefore, the prisoner\r\nof Christ, who am driven along by land and sea, exhort\r\nyou: “stand fast in the faith,”<a id=\"r1814\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1814\"><sup>[1814]</sup></a> and be ye stedfast, “for the\r\njust shall live by faith;”<a id=\"r1815\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1815\"><sup>[1815]</sup></a> be ye unwavering, for “the Lord\r\ncauses those to dwell in a house who are of one and the same\r\ncharacter.”<a id=\"r1816\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1816\"><sup>[1816]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","APPENDIX. THE SPURIOUS EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS.","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE TARSIANS.","Chap. i.—His own sufferings: exhortation to stedfastness."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-804"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e8d07066372f6605f325d04714caeca5c871d46204f0565d045bf6d9c77ae3ef","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ACT","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Acts xx. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1813","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":"f1813","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1813\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1813\">1813</a>. </span>Acts <abbr title=\"twenty\">xx.</abbr> 24.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1813","text_sha256":"8b5799d0f5257eb0a4d9329abfd7ba27cb5dcf20c40115477e6fc5af57752e09","verified":false,"work_id":null}