{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">They pushed forth therefore from the place which is called\r\nPortus; and (the<a id=\"r1452\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1452\"><sup>[1452]</sup></a> fame of all relating to the holy martyr being\r\nalready spread abroad) we met the brethren full of fear and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_296\">296</span>joy; rejoicing indeed because they were thought worthy to\r\nmeet with Theophorus, but struck with fear because so eminent\r\na man was being led to death. Now he enjoined some to\r\nkeep silence who, in their fervent zeal, were saying<a id=\"r1453\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1453\"><sup>[1453]</sup></a> that they\r\nwould appease the people, so that they should not demand the\r\ndestruction of this just one. He being immediately aware\r\nof this through the Spirit,<a id=\"r1454\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1454\"><sup>[1454]</sup></a> and having saluted them all, and\r\nbegged of them to show a true affection towards him, and\r\nhaving dwelt [on this point] at greater length than in his\r\nepistle,<a id=\"r1455\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1455\"><sup>[1455]</sup></a> and having persuaded them not to envy him hastening\r\nto the Lord, he then, after he had, with all the brethren\r\nkneeling [beside him], entreated the Son of God in behalf of\r\nthe churches, that a stop might be put to the persecution,\r\nand that mutual love might continue among the brethren,\r\nwas led with all haste into the amphitheatre. Then, being\r\nimmediately thrown in, according to the command of Cæsar\r\ngiven some time ago, the public spectacles being just about\r\nto close (for it was then a solemn day, as they deemed it,\r\nbeing that which is called the thirteenth<a id=\"r1456\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1456\"><sup>[1456]</sup></a> in the Roman\r\ntongue, on which the people were wont to assemble in more\r\nthan ordinary numbers<a id=\"r1457\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1457\"><sup>[1457]</sup></a>), he was thus cast to the wild beasts\r\nclose beside the temple,<a id=\"r1458\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1458\"><sup>[1458]</sup></a> that so by them the desire of the\r\nholy martyr Ignatius should be fulfilled, according to that\r\nwhich is written, “The desire of the righteous is acceptable<a id=\"r1459\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1459\"><sup>[1459]</sup></a>\r\n[to God],” to the effect that he might not be troublesome to\r\nany of the brethren by the gathering of his remains, even as\r\nhe had in his epistle expressed a wish beforehand that so his\r\nend might be. For only the harder portions of his holy\r\nremains were left, which were conveyed to Antioch and\r\nwrapped<a id=\"r1460\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1460\"><sup>[1460]</sup></a> in linen, as an inestimable treasure left to the holy\r\nchurch by the grace which was in the martyr.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE MARTYRDOM OF IGNATIUS.","THE MARTYRDOM OF IGNATIUS.","Chap. vi.—Ignatius is devoured by the beasts at Rome."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-629"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b47b5520150bbaf138f446ae21bd91479c8d3ba59e69d9091b7472a841050502","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-f1456","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":"f1456","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1456\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1456\">1456</a>. </span>The Saturnalia were then celebrated.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1456","text_sha256":"a7052fe6581cf2b9ec8184aa63cd2ccc9cf7dbb7c7b6f37e1629ed5098d9bbea","verified":false,"work_id":null}