{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Seeing these things, thou wast in utter perplexity.<a id=\"r1967\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1967\"><sup>[1967]</sup></a> And\r\nthou wast ignorant that it was a virgin that should bring\r\nforth; but the angels’ song of praise struck thee with\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_479\">479</span>astonishment, as well as the adoration of the Magi, and the\r\nappearance of the star. Thou didst revert to thy state of\r\n[wilful] ignorance, because all the circumstances seemed to\r\nthee trifling;<a id=\"r1968\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1968\"><sup>[1968]</sup></a> for thou didst deem the swaddling-bands, the\r\ncircumcision, and the nourishment by means of milk contemptible:<a id=\"r1969\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1969\"><sup>[1969]</sup></a>\r\nthese things appeared to thee unworthy of God.\r\nAgain, thou didst behold a man who remained forty days\r\nand nights without tasting human food, along with ministering\r\nangels at whose presence thou didst shudder, when first of all\r\nthou hadst seen Him baptized as a common man, and knewest\r\nnot the reason thereof. But after His [lengthened] fast thou\r\ndidst again assume thy wonted audacity, and didst tempt\r\nHim when hungry, as if He had been an ordinary man, not\r\nknowing who He was. For thou saidst, “If thou be the\r\nSon of God, command that these stones be made bread.”<a id=\"r1970\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1970\"><sup>[1970]</sup></a>\r\nNow, this expression, “If thou be the Son,” is an indication\r\nof ignorance. For if thou hadst possessed real knowledge,\r\nthou wouldst have understood that the Creator can with equal\r\nease both create what does not exist, and change that which\r\nalready has a being. And thou temptedst by means of hunger<a id=\"r1971\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1971\"><sup>[1971]</sup></a>\r\nHim who nourisheth all that require food. And thou temptedst\r\nthe very “Lord of glory,”<a id=\"r1972\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1972\"><sup>[1972]</sup></a> forgetting in thy malevolence\r\nthat “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word\r\nthat proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” For if thou\r\nhadst known that He was the Son of God, thou wouldst also\r\nhave understood that He who had kept his<a id=\"r1973\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1973\"><sup>[1973]</sup></a> body from feeling\r\nany want for forty days and as many nights, could have also\r\ndone the same for ever. Why, then, does He suffer hunger?\r\nIn order to prove that He had assumed a body subject to the\r\nsame feelings as those of ordinary men. By the first fact\r\nHe showed that He was God, and by the second that He was\r\nalso man.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","APPENDIX. THE SPURIOUS EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS.","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE PHILIPPIANS.","Chap. ix.—Continuation: ignorance of Satan."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-848"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"60bc06f1bd0c9e4229f5ff711b5fa78590973f71e867ea8e044038b20c1cb489","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. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1970","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":"f1970","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1970\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1970\">1970</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"four\">iv.</abbr> 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1970","text_sha256":"ab0b2f0db4b3278acde702c0ee3969486ee07e0b12a6fa835adcb6f72a0fd3bf","verified":false,"work_id":null}