{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">If thou lovest the good disciples,\r\nno thanks are due to thee on that\r\naccount; but rather seek by meekness to subdue the more troublesome.\r\nEvery kind of wound is\r\nnot healed with the same plaster.\r\nMitigate violent attacks [of disease]\r\nby gentle applications.<a id=\"r1332\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1332\"><sup>[1332]</sup></a> Be in all\r\nthings “wise as a serpent, and\r\nharmless always as a dove.”<a id=\"r1333\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1333\"><sup>[1333]</sup></a> For\r\nthis purpose thou art composed of\r\nboth soul and body, art both fleshly\r\nand spiritual, that thou mayest\r\ncorrect those [evils] that present\r\nthemselves visibly before thee; and\r\nas respects those that are not seen,\r\nmayest pray that these should be\r\nrevealed to thee, so that thou\r\nmayest be wanting in nothing, but\r\nmayest abound in every gift. The\r\ntimes call upon thee to pray. For\r\nas the wind aids the pilot of a ship,\r\nand as havens are advantageous\r\nfor safety to a tempest-tossed vessel,\r\nso is also prayer to thee, in order\r\nthat thou mayest attain to God.\r\nBe sober as an athlete of God,\r\nwhose will is immortality and eternal\r\nlife; of which thou art also\r\npersuaded. In all things may my\r\nsoul be for thine,<a id=\"r1334\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1334\"><sup>[1334]</sup></a> and my bonds\r\nalso, which thou hast loved.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO POLYCARP.","Chap. ii.—Exhortations."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-566"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"68bc7c57db582853cc1c1ea0da9f69bc72e29412e5fc9ccab736dd53f454c6da","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-f1332","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":"f1332","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1332\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1332\">1332</a>. </span>Literally, “paroxysms by embrocations.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1332","text_sha256":"a14e5757261c8f7db8f2b223e07202b931556263340fe27975942961194349ca","verified":false,"work_id":null}