{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">From Syria even unto Rome I\r\nfight with beasts,<a id=\"r1114\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1114\"><sup>[1114]</sup></a> both by land\r\nand sea, both by night and day,\r\nbeing bound to ten leopards, I\r\nmean a band of soldiers, who, even\r\nwhen they receive benefits,<a id=\"r1115\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1115\"><sup>[1115]</sup></a> show\r\nthemselves all the worse. But I\r\nam the more instructed by their\r\ninjuries [to act as a disciple of\r\nChrist]; “yet am I not thereby\r\njustified.”<a id=\"r1116\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1116\"><sup>[1116]</sup></a> May I enjoy the wild\r\nbeasts that are prepared for me;\r\nand I pray that they may be found\r\neager to rush upon me, which also\r\nI will entice to devour me speedily,\r\nand not deal with me as with some,\r\nwhom, out of fear, they have not\r\ntouched. But if they be unwilling\r\nto assail me, I will compel them to\r\ndo so. Pardon me [in this]: I\r\nknow what is for my benefit. Now\r\nI begin to be a disciple, and have<a id=\"r1117\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1117\"><sup>[1117]</sup></a>\r\nno desire after anything visible or\r\ninvisible, that I may attain to Jesus\r\nChrist. Let fire and the cross;\r\nlet the crowds of wild beasts; let\r\nbreakings, tearings, and separations\r\nof bones; let cutting off of members;\r\nlet bruising to pieces of the\r\nwhole body; and let the very torment\r\nof the devil come upon me:\r\nonly let me attain to Jesus Christ.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE ROMANS.","Chap. v.—I desire to die."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-430"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d76a5bad3e174473a492bd8a7b7509028bfa8ddb6332c16ea75afb3ed152328b","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-f1115","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":"f1115","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1115\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1115\">1115</a>. </span>Probably the soldiers received gifts from the Christians, to treat\r\nIgnatius with kindness.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1115","text_sha256":"1a64071130200bc05eb926fd0ad931342f5c399d61a9ab1977b641d11d0e5b81","verified":false,"work_id":null}