{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">The priests<a id=\"r1211\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1211\"><sup>[1211]</sup></a> indeed\r\nare good, but the High\r\nPriest is better; to\r\nwhom the holy of holies\r\nhas been committed, and\r\nwho alone has been entrusted\r\nwith the secrets\r\nof God. He is the door\r\nof the Father, by which\r\nenter in Abraham, and\r\nIsaac, and Jacob, and\r\nthe prophets, and the\r\napostles, and the church.\r\nAll these have for their\r\nobject the attaining to\r\nthe unity of God. But\r\nthe gospel possesses\r\nsomething transcendent\r\n[above the former dispensation],\r\nviz. the appearance\r\nof our Lord\r\nJesus Christ, His passion\r\nand resurrection.\r\nFor the beloved prophets\r\nannounced Him,<a id=\"r1212\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1212\"><sup>[1212]</sup></a>\r\nbut the gospel is the\r\nperfection of immortality.<a id=\"r1213\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1213\"><sup>[1213]</sup></a>\r\nAll these things\r\nare good together, if ye\r\nbelieve in love.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE PHILADELPHIANS.","Chap. ix.—The Old Testament is good: the New Testament is better."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-488"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"61a67f88a7daa72dafab664086cc3c109e040314cc4ab5a81ed8df7351b9a37c","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-f1212","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":"f1212","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1212\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1212\">1212</a>. </span>Literally, “proclaimed as to Him.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1212","text_sha256":"50b50e28360d0be9f47bcaafea54adc81be5d39437f2e78f501e412289089313","verified":false,"work_id":null}