{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“Wherefore, girding up your loins,”<a id=\"r323\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f323\"><sup>[323]</sup></a> “serve the Lord in\r\nfear”<a id=\"r324\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f324\"><sup>[324]</sup></a> and truth, as those who have forsaken the vain, empty\r\ntalk and error of the multitude, and “believed in Him who\r\nraised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, and gave\r\nHim glory,”<a id=\"r325\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f325\"><sup>[325]</sup></a> and a throne at His right hand. To Him all\r\nthings<a id=\"r326\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f326\"><sup>[326]</sup></a> in heaven and on earth are subject. Him every spirit\r\nserves. He comes as the Judge of the living and the dead.<a id=\"r327\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f327\"><sup>[327]</sup></a>\r\nHis blood will God require of those who do not believe in\r\nHim.<a id=\"r328\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f328\"><sup>[328]</sup></a> But He who raised Him up from the dead will raise<a id=\"r329\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f329\"><sup>[329]</sup></a>\r\nup us also, if we do His will, and walk in His commandments,\r\nand love what He loved, keeping ourselves from all unrighteousness,\r\ncovetousness, love of money, evil-speaking, false-witness;\r\n“not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing,”<a id=\"r330\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f330\"><sup>[330]</sup></a>\r\nor blow for blow, or cursing for cursing, but being mindful\r\nof what the Lord said in His teaching: “Judge not, that ye\r\nbe not judged;<a id=\"r331\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f331\"><sup>[331]</sup></a> forgive, and it shall be forgiven unto you;<a id=\"r332\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f332\"><sup>[332]</sup></a>\r\nbe merciful, that ye may obtain mercy;<a id=\"r333\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f333\"><sup>[333]</sup></a> with what measure\r\nye mete, it shall be measured to you again;”<a id=\"r334\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f334\"><sup>[334]</sup></a> and once more,\r\n“Blessed are the poor, and those that are persecuted for\r\nrighteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of God.”<a id=\"r335\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f335\"><sup>[335]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP.","THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP TO THE PHILIPPIANS.","Chap. ii.—An exhortation to virtue."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-123"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6189913594259cd6b8aad02fa16ceb2ce247d15c4d7a1834f0fa0b91050edad5","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-f328","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":"f328","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f328\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r328\">328</a>. </span>Or, “who do not obey Him.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f328","text_sha256":"c45913d0a821e86b51b653d6188fe23da170a12504a2f3357d82a0848ff51aed","verified":false,"work_id":null}