{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Wherefore, with great alacrity and joy, through his desire\r\nto suffer, he came down from Antioch to Seleucia, from which\r\nplace he set sail. And after a great deal of suffering he\r\ncame to Smyrna, where he disembarked with great joy, and\r\nhastened to see the holy Polycarp, [formerly] his fellow-disciple,\r\nand [now] bishop of Smyrna. For they had both,\r\nin old times, been disciples of St John the apostle. Being\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_294\">294</span>then brought to him, and having communicated to him some\r\nspiritual gifts, and glorying in his bonds, he entreated of him\r\nto labour<a id=\"r1442\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1442\"><sup>[1442]</sup></a> along with him for the fulfilment of his desire;\r\nearnestly indeed asking this of the whole church (for the\r\ncities and churches of Asia had welcomed<a id=\"r1443\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1443\"><sup>[1443]</sup></a> the holy man\r\nthrough their bishops, and presbyters, and deacons, all\r\nhastening to meet him, if by any means they might receive\r\nfrom him some<a id=\"r1444\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1444\"><sup>[1444]</sup></a> spiritual gift), but above all, the holy Polycarp,\r\nthat, by means of the wild beasts, he soon disappearing\r\nfrom this world, might be manifested before the face of\r\nChrist.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE MARTYRDOM OF IGNATIUS.","THE MARTYRDOM OF IGNATIUS.","Chap. iii.—Ignatius sails to Smyrna."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-625"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3ab06d8c56945558582dd18dd84827a67ae4c15577b6e37287d03dcbbfad7818","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-f1444","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":"f1444","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1444\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1444\">1444</a>. </span>Literally, “a portion of.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1444","text_sha256":"db29373417795120fa4c854bca721b40d876aeee9c9837c258293b20b41cf63f","verified":false,"work_id":null}