{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">The priests<a id=\"r1214\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1214\"><sup>[1214]</sup></a> indeed, and the\r\nministers of the word, are good;\r\nbut the High Priest is better, to\r\nwhom the holy of holies has been\r\ncommitted, and who alone has\r\nbeen entrusted with the secrets of\r\nGod. The ministering powers of\r\nGod are good. The Comforter is\r\nholy, and the Word is holy, the\r\nSon of the Father, by whom He\r\nmade all things, and exercises a\r\nprovidence over them all. This is\r\nthe Way<a id=\"r1215\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1215\"><sup>[1215]</sup></a> which leads to the Father,\r\nthe Rock,<a id=\"r1216\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1216\"><sup>[1216]</sup></a> the Defence,<a id=\"r1217\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1217\"><sup>[1217]</sup></a> the Key,\r\nthe Shepherd,<a id=\"r1218\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1218\"><sup>[1218]</sup></a> the Sacrifice, the\r\nDoor<a id=\"r1219\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1219\"><sup>[1219]</sup></a> of knowledge, through\r\nwhich have entered Abraham,\r\nand Isaac, and Jacob, Moses and\r\nall the company of the prophets,\r\nand these pillars of the world, the\r\napostles, and the spouse of Christ,\r\non whose account He poured out\r\nHis own blood, as her marriage\r\nportion, that He might redeem\r\nher. All these things tend towards\r\nthe unity of the one and only true\r\nGod. But the gospel possesses\r\nsomething transcendent [above the\r\nformer dispensation], viz. the appearing\r\nof our Saviour Jesus\r\nChrist, His passion, and the resurrection\r\nitself. For those things\r\nwhich the prophets announced,\r\nsaying, “Until He come for whom\r\nit is reserved, and He shall be the\r\nexpectation of the Gentiles,”<a id=\"r1220\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1220\"><sup>[1220]</sup></a> have\r\nbeen fulfilled in the gospel, [our\r\nLord saying,] “Go ye and teach\r\nall nations, baptizing them in the\r\nname of the Father, and of the\r\nSon, and of the Holy Ghost.”<a id=\"r1221\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1221\"><sup>[1221]</sup></a>\r\nAll then are good together, the\r\nlaw, the prophets, the apostles, the\r\nwhole company [of others] that\r\nhave believed through them: only\r\nif we love one another.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE PHILADELPHIANS.","Chap. ix.—The Old Testament is good: the New Testament is better."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-490"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ab1973a08c38ffda64c4172fc9dcfaac7057fb01ca217061d402276bceec84a8","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John x. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1218","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":"f1218","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1218\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1218\">1218</a>. </span>John <abbr title=\"ten\">x.</abbr> 11.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1218","text_sha256":"c29f4fd938afdd0bb98e743b9aca17401a92488bbd88c78cccee493e9b4cfa01","verified":false,"work_id":null}