{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">If, therefore, thou art trodden down under the feet of the\r\nLord, how dost thou tempt Him that cannot be tempted,\r\nforgetting that precept of the lawgiver, “Thou shalt not\r\ntempt the Lord thy God?”<a id=\"r1979\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1979\"><sup>[1979]</sup></a> Yea, thou even darest, most\r\naccursed one, to appropriate the works of God to thyself, and\r\nto declare that the dominion over these was delivered to thee.<a id=\"r1980\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1980\"><sup>[1980]</sup></a>\r\nAnd thou dost set forth thine own fall as an example to the\r\nLord, and dost promise to give Him what is really His own,\r\nif He would fall down and worship thee.<a id=\"r1981\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1981\"><sup>[1981]</sup></a> And how didst\r\nthou not shudder, O thou spirit more wicked through thy\r\nmalevolence than all other wicked spirits, to utter such words\r\nagainst the Lord? Through thine appetite<a id=\"r1982\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1982\"><sup>[1982]</sup></a> wast thou overcome,\r\nand through thy vainglory wast thou brought to\r\ndishonour: through avarice and ambition dost thou [now]\r\ndraw on [others] to ungodliness. Thou, O Belial, dragon,\r\napostate, crooked serpent, rebel against God, outcast from\r\nChrist, alien from the Holy Spirit, exile from the ranks of\r\nthe angels, reviler of the laws of God, enemy of all that is\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_481\">481</span>lawful, who didst rise up against the first-formed of men,\r\nand didst drive forth [from obedience to] the commandment\r\n[of God] those who had in no respect injured thee; thou\r\nwho didst raise up against Abel the murderous Cain; thou\r\nwho didst take arms against Job: dost thou say to the Lord,\r\n“If thou wilt fall down and worship me?” Oh what audacity!\r\nOh what madness! Thou runaway slave, thou incorrigible<a id=\"r1983\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1983\"><sup>[1983]</sup></a>\r\nslave, dost thou rebel against the good Lord? Dost thou say\r\nto so great a Lord, the God of all that either the mind or\r\nthe senses can perceive, “If thou wilt fall down and worship\r\nme?”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","APPENDIX. THE SPURIOUS EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS.","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE PHILIPPIANS.","Chap. xi.—Continuation: audacity of Satan."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-850"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"60c58b2a42fb7a220103aa6b9f9fe54a370a6754f3583c1cb1e069f60fe1e7f3","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":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. iv. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1981","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":"f1981","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1981\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1981\">1981</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"four\">iv.</abbr> 9.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1981","text_sha256":"c46634e15e21efb6bfa2d48654fa0aac86404d74344edb14d935b95047d0bb76","verified":false,"work_id":null}