{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I therefore did what belonged\r\nto me, as a man devoted to unity;\r\nadding this also, that where there\r\nis diversity of judgment, and\r\nwrath, and hatred, God does not\r\ndwell. To all them that repent,\r\nGod grants forgiveness, if they\r\nwith one consent return to the\r\nunity of Christ, and communion\r\nwith the bishop.<a id=\"r1206\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1206\"><sup>[1206]</sup></a> I trust to the\r\ngrace of Jesus Christ, that He\r\nwill free you from every bond of\r\nwickedness.<a id=\"r1207\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1207\"><sup>[1207]</sup></a> I therefore exhort\r\nyou that ye do nothing out of\r\nstrife,<a id=\"r1208\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1208\"><sup>[1208]</sup></a> but according to the doctrine\r\nof Christ. For I have heard\r\nsome saying, If I do not find the\r\ngospel in the archives, I will not\r\nbelieve it. To such persons I say\r\nthat my archives are Jesus Christ,\r\nto disobey whom is manifest destruction.\r\nMy authentic archives\r\nare His cross, and death, and resurrection,\r\nand the faith which\r\nbears on these things, by which I\r\ndesire, through your prayers, to be\r\njustified. He who disbelieves the\r\ngospel disbelieves everything along\r\nwith it. For the archives ought\r\nnot to be preferred to the Spirit.<a id=\"r1209\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1209\"><sup>[1209]</sup></a>\r\n“It is hard to kick against the\r\npricks;”<a id=\"r1210\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1210\"><sup>[1210]</sup></a> it is hard to disbelieve\r\nChrist; it is hard to reject the\r\npreaching of the apostles.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE PHILADELPHIANS.","Chap. viii.—The same continued."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-486"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"152d50ced47ba9f19a1173e096770adbe923c42efd6cada1ca5a6b9521d4a9c0","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ACT","chapter":26,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Acts xxvi. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1210","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":"f1210","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1210\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1210\">1210</a>. </span>Acts <abbr title=\"twenty-six\">xxvi.</abbr> 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1210","text_sha256":"2cb0f41c4f31a402a50329f6bedfc450eee98fa5a83905bf3f0c2cd470c454c5","verified":false,"work_id":null}