{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Wherefore it is fitting that ye also\r\nshould run together in accordance\r\nwith the will of the bishop who by\r\nGod’s appointment<a id=\"r771\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f771\"><sup>[771]</sup></a> rules over you.\r\nWhich thing ye indeed of yourselves\r\ndo, being instructed by the\r\nSpirit. For your justly-renowned\r\npresbytery, being worthy of God,\r\nis fitted as exactly to the bishop\r\nas the strings are to the harp.\r\nThus, being joined together in\r\nconcord and harmonious love, of\r\nwhich Jesus Christ is the Captain\r\nand Guardian, do ye, man by man,\r\nbecome but one choir; so that,\r\nagreeing together in concord, and\r\nobtaining<a id=\"r772\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f772\"><sup>[772]</sup></a> a perfect unity with\r\nGod, ye may indeed be one in\r\nharmonious feeling with God the\r\nFather, and His beloved Son Jesus\r\nChrist our Lord. For, says He,\r\n“Grant unto them, Holy Father,\r\nthat as I and Thou are one, they\r\nalso may be one in us.”<a id=\"r773\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f773\"><sup>[773]</sup></a> It is\r\ntherefore profitable that you, being\r\njoined together with God in an\r\nunblameable unity, should be the\r\nfollowers of the example of Christ,\r\nof whom also ye are members.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. iv.—The same continued."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-219"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"68aefec96f5139a2d1f1346bed04d65a4d485996f7729a6753aabdbd08c6a2dc","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-f771","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":"f771","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f771\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r771\">771</a>. </span>Literally, “according to God.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f771","text_sha256":"39e6c87424ef0770c1537a63dbe99a8ae8cac89a6949178d5287e13a64042ecb","verified":false,"work_id":null}