{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Now I write these things unto\r\nyou, not that I know there are any\r\nsuch persons among you; nay,\r\nindeed I hope that God will never\r\npermit any such report to reach my\r\nears, He “who spared not His Son\r\nfor the sake of His holy church.”<a id=\"r1036\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1036\"><sup>[1036]</sup></a>\r\nBut foreseeing the snares of the\r\nwicked one, I arm you beforehand\r\nby my admonitions, as my\r\nbeloved and faithful children in\r\nChrist, furnishing you with the\r\nmeans of protection<a id=\"r1037\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1037\"><sup>[1037]</sup></a> against the\r\ndeadly disease of unruly men, by\r\nwhich do ye flee from the disease<a id=\"r1038\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1038\"><sup>[1038]</sup></a>\r\n[referred to] by the good-will of\r\nChrist our Lord. Do ye therefore,\r\nclothing<a id=\"r1039\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1039\"><sup>[1039]</sup></a> yourselves with\r\nmeekness, become the imitators of\r\nHis sufferings, and of His love,\r\nwherewith<a id=\"r1040\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1040\"><sup>[1040]</sup></a> He loved us when He\r\ngave Himself a ransom<a id=\"r1041\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1041\"><sup>[1041]</sup></a> for us,\r\nthat He might cleanse us by His\r\nblood from our old ungodliness,\r\nand bestow life on us when we were\r\nalmost on the point of perishing\r\nthrough the depravity that was in\r\nus. Let no one of you, therefore,\r\ncherish any grudge against his\r\nneighbour. For says our Lord,\r\n“Forgive, and it shall be forgiven\r\nunto you.”<a id=\"r1042\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1042\"><sup>[1042]</sup></a> Give no occasion to\r\nthe Gentiles, lest “by means of\r\na few foolish men the word and\r\ndoctrine [of Christ] be blasphemed.”<a id=\"r1043\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1043\"><sup>[1043]</sup></a> For says the prophet,\r\nas in the person of God, “Woe to\r\nhim by whom my name is blasphemed\r\namong the Gentiles.”<a id=\"r1044\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1044\"><sup>[1044]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE TRALLIANS.","Chap. viii.—Be on your guard against the snares of the devil."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-386"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ae1f76fc7eb267f244d9157fbf9cae9ddf0cd964e5adc21c45ab75892a98c5c3","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":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vi. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1042","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":"f1042","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1042\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1042\">1042</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"six\">vi.</abbr> 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1042","text_sha256":"fb3de357c1b18f6123ec50d1466ba56c86ef2d16d9ca06fb4ab1c7d739369996","verified":false,"work_id":null}