{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">If any one preaches the one\r\nGod of the law and the prophets,\r\nbut denies Christ to be the Son of\r\nGod, he is a liar, even as also is\r\nhis father the devil,<a id=\"r1186\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1186\"><sup>[1186]</sup></a> and is a Jew\r\nfalsely-so-called, being possessed\r\nof<a id=\"r1187\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1187\"><sup>[1187]</sup></a> mere carnal circumcision. If\r\nany one confesses Christ Jesus the\r\nLord, but denies the God of the\r\nlaw and of the prophets, saying\r\nthat the Father of Christ is not the\r\nMaker of heaven and earth, he has\r\nnot continued in the truth any\r\nmore than his father the devil,\r\nand is a disciple of Simon Magus,\r\nnot of the Holy Spirit. If any\r\none says there is one God, and also\r\nconfesses Christ Jesus, but thinks\r\nthe Lord to be a mere man, and\r\nnot the only-begotten<a id=\"r1188\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1188\"><sup>[1188]</sup></a> God, and\r\nWisdom, and the Word of God,\r\nand deems Him to consist merely\r\nof a soul and body, such an one is\r\na serpent, that preaches deceit and\r\nerror for the destruction of men.\r\nAnd such a man is poor in understanding,\r\neven as by name he is an\r\nEbionite.<a id=\"r1189\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1189\"><sup>[1189]</sup></a> If any one confesses\r\nthe truths mentioned,<a id=\"r1190\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1190\"><sup>[1190]</sup></a> but calls\r\nlawful wedlock, and the procreation\r\nof children, destruction and pollution,\r\nor deems certain kinds of\r\nfood abominable, such an one has\r\nthe apostate dragon dwelling within\r\nhim. If any one confesses the\r\nFather, and the Son, and the Holy\r\nGhost, and praises the creation, but\r\ncalls the incarnation merely an appearance,\r\nand is ashamed of the\r\npassion, such an one has denied\r\nthe faith, not less than the Jews\r\nwho killed Christ. If any one\r\nconfesses these things, and that\r\nGod the Word did dwell in a\r\nhuman body, being within it as the\r\nWord, even as the soul also is in\r\nthe body, because it was God that\r\ninhabited it, and not a human soul,\r\nbut affirms that unlawful unions\r\nare a good thing, and places the\r\nhighest happiness<a id=\"r1191\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1191\"><sup>[1191]</sup></a> in pleasure, as\r\ndoes the man who is falsely called\r\na Nicolaitan, this person can\r\nneither be a lover of God, nor a\r\nlover of Christ, but is a corrupter\r\nof his own flesh, and therefore\r\nvoid of the Holy Spirit, and a\r\nstranger to Christ. All such persons\r\nare but monuments and sepulchres\r\nof the dead, upon which are\r\nwritten only the names of dead\r\nmen. Flee, therefore, the wicked\r\ndevices and snares of the spirit\r\nwhich now worketh in the children\r\nof this world,<a id=\"r1192\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1192\"><sup>[1192]</sup></a> lest at any time being\r\novercome,<a id=\"r1193\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1193\"><sup>[1193]</sup></a> ye grow weak in your\r\nlove. But be ye all joined together<a id=\"r1194\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1194\"><sup>[1194]</sup></a>\r\nwith an undivided heart and\r\na willing mind, “being of one accord\r\nand of one judgment,”<a id=\"r1195\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1195\"><sup>[1195]</sup></a> being\r\nalways of the same opinion about\r\nthe same things, both when you\r\nare at ease and in danger, both in\r\nsorrow and in joy. I thank God,\r\nthrough Jesus Christ, that I have\r\na good conscience in respect to you,\r\nand that no one has it in his power\r\nto boast, either privately or publicly,\r\nthat I have burdened any one\r\neither in much or in little. And\r\nI wish for all among whom I have\r\nspoken, that they may not possess\r\nthat for a testimony against them.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE PHILADELPHIANS.","Chap. vi.—Do not accept Judaism."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-478"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"941b3706559fd5b6d729be72b781b09cbd874ce94107cb9b5b92b2270465ff8c","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-f1191","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":"f1191","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1191\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1191\">1191</a>. </span>Literally, “the end of happiness.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1191","text_sha256":"28e4165afcf6c154ac40474e682422635fda2db8d7f0f6ab6c4ac0f54617b665","verified":false,"work_id":null}