{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I do not issue orders to you, as\r\nif I were some great person. For\r\nthough I am bound for His name,\r\nI am not yet perfect in Jesus\r\nChrist. For now I begin to be a\r\ndisciple, and I speak to you as my\r\nfellow-servants. For it was needful\r\nfor me to have been admonished by\r\nyou in faith, exhortation, patience,\r\nand long-suffering. But inasmuch\r\nas love suffers me not to be silent\r\nin regard to you, I have therefore\r\ntaken<a id=\"r768\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f768\"><sup>[768]</sup></a> upon me first to exhort you\r\nthat ye would run together in\r\naccordance with the will of God.\r\nFor even Jesus Christ does all\r\nthings according to the will of the\r\nFather, as He Himself declares in\r\na certain place, “I do always those\r\nthings that please Him.”<a id=\"r769\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f769\"><sup>[769]</sup></a> Wherefore\r\nit behoves us also to live\r\naccording to the will of God in\r\nChrist, and to imitate Him as Paul\r\ndid. For, says he, “Be ye followers\r\nof me, even as I also am of\r\nChrist.”<a id=\"r770\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f770\"><sup>[770]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. iii.—Exhortations to unity."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-215"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"57a07dd6f357f94354b24f88abf0ded2b8aaf5bb278e121b6b8e4c405cccccd3","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":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John viii. 29","verse":29,"verse_end":29}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f769","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":"f769","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f769\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r769\">769</a>. </span>John <abbr title=\"eight\">viii.</abbr> 29.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f769","text_sha256":"314cf829fc6db57bb0d5d797dfe64d0fa539102ca27834de93b618efc95022c2","verified":false,"work_id":null}