{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Inasmuch as I have\r\nnot been able to write\r\nto all the churches, because\r\nI must suddenly\r\nsail from Troas to Neapolis,\r\nas the will<a id=\"r1373\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1373\"><sup>[1373]</sup></a> [of the\r\nemperor] enjoins, [I\r\nbeg that] thou, as being\r\nacquainted with the\r\npurpose<a id=\"r1374\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1374\"><sup>[1374]</sup></a> of God, wilt\r\nwrite to the adjacent\r\nchurches, that they also\r\nmay act in like manner,\r\nsuch as are able to do\r\nso sending messengers,<a id=\"r1375\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1375\"><sup>[1375]</sup></a>\r\nand the others transmitting\r\nletters through\r\nthose persons who are\r\nsent by thee, that thou<a id=\"r1376\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1376\"><sup>[1376]</sup></a>\r\nmayest be glorified by\r\na work<a id=\"r1377\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1377\"><sup>[1377]</sup></a> which shall be\r\nremembered for ever,\r\nas indeed thou art\r\nworthy to be. I salute\r\nall by name, and in\r\nparticular the wife of\r\nEpitropus, with all her\r\nhouse and children. I\r\nsalute Attalus, my beloved.\r\nI salute him\r\nwho shall be deemed\r\nworthy to go [from\r\nyou] into Syria. Grace\r\nshall be with him for\r\never, and with Polycarp\r\nthat sends him. I pray\r\nfor your happiness for\r\never in our God, Jesus\r\nChrist, by whom continue\r\nye in the unity\r\nand under the protection\r\nof God.<a id=\"r1378\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1378\"><sup>[1378]</sup></a> I salute\r\nAlce, my dearly beloved.<a id=\"r1379\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1379\"><sup>[1379]</sup></a>\r\nFare ye well\r\nin the Lord.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO POLYCARP.","Chap. viii.—Let other churches also send to Antioch."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-588"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"81478c13924c20074760f991b9976bb78eafd88bb91306bb21451e41e8ca92d6","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-f1375","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":"f1375","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1375\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1375\">1375</a>. </span>Literally, “men on foot.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1375","text_sha256":"607394e6985109f60d7589ce7244b01fa8d156a81ffdfff20acc15354a7e643b","verified":false,"work_id":null}