{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Knowing, then, that “God is not mocked,”<a id=\"r344\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f344\"><sup>[344]</sup></a> we ought to\r\nwalk worthy of His commandment and glory. In like manner\r\nshould the deacons be blameless before the face of His righteousness,\r\nas being the servants of God and Christ,<a id=\"r345\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f345\"><sup>[345]</sup></a> and not\r\nof men. They must not be slanderers, double-tongued,<a id=\"r346\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f346\"><sup>[346]</sup></a> or\r\nlovers of money, but temperate in all things, compassionate,\r\nindustrious, walking according to the truth of the Lord, who\r\nwas the servant<a id=\"r347\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f347\"><sup>[347]</sup></a> of all. If we please Him in this present\r\nworld, we shall receive also the future world, according as\r\nHe has promised to us that He will raise us again from the\r\ndead, and that if we live<a id=\"r348\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f348\"><sup>[348]</sup></a> worthily of Him, “we shall also\r\nreign together with Him,”<a id=\"r349\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f349\"><sup>[349]</sup></a> provided only we believe. In like\r\nmanner, let the young men also be blameless in all things,\r\nbeing especially careful to preserve purity, and keeping themselves\r\nin, as with a bridle, from every kind of evil. For it is\r\nwell that they should be cut off from<a id=\"r350\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f350\"><sup>[350]</sup></a> the lusts that are in the\r\nworld, since “every lust warreth against the spirit;”<a id=\"r351\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f351\"><sup>[351]</sup></a> and\r\n“neither fornicators, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves\r\nwith mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God,”<a id=\"r352\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f352\"><sup>[352]</sup></a> nor\r\nthose who do things inconsistent and unbecoming. Wherefore,\r\nit is needful to abstain from all these things, being subject\r\nto the presbyters and deacons, as unto God and Christ.\r\nThe virgins also must walk in a blameless and pure conscience.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP.","THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP TO THE PHILIPPIANS.","Chap. v.—The duties of deacons, youths, and virgins."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-126"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ff426138da0b7431200592049cd38a8b1183ed78cfbbe22a46dfbf9e4480bd28","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xx. 28","verse":28,"verse_end":28}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f347","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":"f347","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f347\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r347\">347</a>. </span>Comp. <abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty\">xx.</abbr> 28.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f347","text_sha256":"efd5949d2f630dadc1054d439d0699e9e665ad9d470b366476a5be2b3fde7709","verified":false,"work_id":null}