{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">But the way of darkness<a id=\"r726\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f726\"><sup>[726]</sup></a> is crooked, and full of cursing;\r\nfor it is the way of eternal<a id=\"r727\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f727\"><sup>[727]</sup></a> death with punishment, in which\r\nway are the things that destroy the soul, viz. idolatry,\r\nover-confidence, the arrogance of power, hypocrisy, double-heartedness,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_134\">134</span>adultery, murder, rapine, haughtiness, transgression,<a id=\"r728\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f728\"><sup>[728]</sup></a>\r\ndeceit, malice, self-sufficiency, poisoning, magic,\r\navarice,<a id=\"r729\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f729\"><sup>[729]</sup></a> want of the fear of God. [In this way, too,] are\r\nthose who persecute the good, those who hate truth, those\r\nwho love falsehood, those who know not the reward of\r\nrighteousness, those who cleave not to that which is good,\r\nthose who attend not with just judgment to the widow and\r\norphan, those who watch not to the fear of God, [but incline]\r\nto wickedness, from whom meekness and patience are far off;\r\npersons who love vanity, follow after a reward, pity not the\r\nneedy, labour not in aid of him who is overcome with toil;\r\nwho are prone to evil-speaking, who know not Him that made\r\nthem, who are murderers of children, destroyers of the workmanship\r\nof God; who turn away him that is in want, who\r\noppress the afflicted, who are advocates of the rich, who are\r\nunjust judges of the poor, and who are in every respect\r\ntransgressors.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","Chap. xx.—The way of darkness."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-185"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a6e66f2163fb89066bf4bf974864b667d395140e9315b7fd84507b4530eac835","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-f728","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":"f728","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f728\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r728\">728</a>. </span>Cod. Sin. reads “transgressions.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f728","text_sha256":"0cb54d139df22c77834cb536b4abade426b7b18d607f690608a7af2934b5b19c","verified":false,"work_id":null}