{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">But not to dwell upon ancient examples, let us come to the\r\nmost recent spiritual heroes.<a id=\"r23\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f23\"><sup>[23]</sup></a> Let us take the noble examples\r\nfurnished in our own generation. Through envy and jealousy,\r\nthe greatest and most righteous pillars [of the church] have\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_11\">11</span>been persecuted and put to death.<a id=\"r24\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f24\"><sup>[24]</sup></a> Let us set before our\r\neyes the illustrious<a id=\"r25\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f25\"><sup>[25]</sup></a> apostles. Peter, through unrighteous\r\nenvy, endured not one or two, but numerous labours; and\r\nwhen he had at length suffered martyrdom, departed to the\r\nplace of glory due to him. Owing to envy, Paul also obtained\r\nthe reward of patient endurance, after being seven\r\ntimes thrown into captivity,<a id=\"r26\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f26\"><sup>[26]</sup></a> compelled<a id=\"r27\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f27\"><sup>[27]</sup></a> to flee, and stoned.\r\nAfter preaching both in the east and west, he gained the\r\nillustrious reputation due to his faith, having taught righteousness\r\nto the whole world, and come to the extreme limit of\r\nthe west,<a id=\"r28\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f28\"><sup>[28]</sup></a> and suffered martyrdom under the prefects.<a id=\"r29\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f29\"><sup>[29]</sup></a> Thus\r\nwas he removed from the world, and went into the holy\r\nplace, having proved himself a striking example of patience.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. v.—No less evils have arisen from the same source in the most recent times. The martyrdom of Peter and Paul."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-49"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"28751141b2e61a9d5cc5439329f333e3d2e0141ee50a9b906927cef0229548c3","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-f25","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":"f25","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f25\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r25\">25</a>. </span>Literally “good.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f25","text_sha256":"59cad03c2ea248535a75f29fb37eff2850b530b4fb8ee68c45193f99f0de9748","verified":false,"work_id":null}