{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Since, according to your prayers,\r\nand the compassion which ye feel\r\nin Christ Jesus, it is reported to\r\nme that the church which is at\r\nAntioch in Syria possesses peace,\r\nit will become you, as a church of\r\nGod, to elect a bishop to act as\r\nthe ambassador of God [for you]\r\nto [the brethren] there, that it may\r\nbe granted them to meet together,\r\nand to glorify the name of God.\r\nBlessed is he in Christ Jesus, who\r\nshall be deemed worthy of such a\r\nministry; and if ye be zealous [in\r\nthis matter], ye shall receive glory\r\nin Christ. And if ye are willing,\r\nit is not altogether beyond your\r\npower to do this, for the sake of<a id=\"r1223\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1223\"><sup>[1223]</sup></a>\r\nGod; as also the nearest churches\r\nhave sent, in some cases bishops,\r\nand in others presbyters and\r\ndeacons.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE PHILADELPHIANS.","Chap. x.—Congratulate the inhabitants of Antioch on the close of the persecution."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-494"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"28c386ed7a2a977cf8dde9ec6676a5d2a58b808d358a83f029c8c31714248890","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-f1223","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":"f1223","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1223\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1223\">1223</a>. </span>Literally, “for the name of.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1223","text_sha256":"a2dbe66ac0a6aaac60ae4ac95fa63046a0f29abf2c842420e3200ed2a3a6fccb","verified":false,"work_id":null}