{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Now the virginity of Mary was\r\nhidden from the prince of this\r\nworld, as was also her offspring,\r\nand the death of the Lord; three\r\nmysteries of renown,<a id=\"r874\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f874\"><sup>[874]</sup></a> which were\r\nwrought in silence, but have been\r\nrevealed to us. A star shone forth\r\nin heaven above all that were before\r\nit, and its light was inexpressible,\r\nwhile its novelty struck men\r\nwith astonishment. And all the\r\nrest of the stars, with the sun and\r\nmoon, formed a chorus to this star.\r\nIt far exceeded them all in brightness,\r\nand agitation was felt as to\r\nwhence this new spectacle [proceeded].\r\nHence worldly wisdom\r\nbecame folly; conjuration was\r\nseen to be mere trifling; and\r\nmagic became utterly ridiculous.\r\nEvery law<a id=\"r875\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f875\"><sup>[875]</sup></a> of wickedness vanished\r\naway; the darkness of ignorance\r\nwas dispersed; and tyrannical authority\r\nwas destroyed, God being\r\nmanifested as a man, and man\r\ndisplaying power as God. But\r\nneither was the former a mere\r\nimagination,<a id=\"r876\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f876\"><sup>[876]</sup></a> nor did the second\r\nimply a bare humanity;<a id=\"r877\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f877\"><sup>[877]</sup></a> but the\r\none was absolutely true,<a id=\"r878\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f878\"><sup>[878]</sup></a> and the\r\nother an economical arrangement.<a id=\"r879\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f879\"><sup>[879]</sup></a>\r\nNow that received a beginning\r\nwhich was perfected by God.<a id=\"r880\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f880\"><sup>[880]</sup></a>\r\nHenceforth all things were in a\r\nstate of tumult, because He meditated\r\nthe abolition of death.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. xix.—Three celebrated mysteries."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-279"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"927d063b079d14670ab444c4a122af6fed204a12f82867c4fa6c86f55fabaa91","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-f874","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":"f874","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f874\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r874\">874</a>. </span>Literally, “of noise.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f874","text_sha256":"af174de45f8512c472d559e01518976b4a63592275959413a3bee1d01ad00d1a","verified":false,"work_id":null}