{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">The more, therefore, you see the\r\nbishop silent, the more do you\r\nreverence him. For we ought to\r\nreceive every one whom the Master\r\nof the house sends to be over His\r\nhousehold,<a id=\"r786\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f786\"><sup>[786]</sup></a> as we would do Him\r\nthat sent him. It is manifest,\r\ntherefore, that we should look upon\r\nthe bishop even as we would look\r\nupon the Lord Himself, standing,\r\nas he does, before the Lord. For\r\n“it behoves the man who looks\r\ncarefully about him, and is active\r\nin his business, to stand before\r\nkings, and not to stand before\r\nslothful men.”<a id=\"r787\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f787\"><sup>[787]</sup></a> And indeed Onesimus\r\nhimself greatly commends\r\nyour good order in God, that ye\r\nall live according to the truth, and\r\nthat no sect<a id=\"r788\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f788\"><sup>[788]</sup></a> has any dwelling-place\r\namong you. Nor indeed do\r\nye hearken to any one rather than\r\nto Jesus Christ, the true Shepherd\r\nand Teacher. And ye are, as\r\nPaul wrote to you, “one body\r\nand one spirit, because ye have\r\nalso been called in one hope of the\r\nfaith.”<a id=\"r789\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f789\"><sup>[789]</sup></a> Since also “there is one\r\nLord, one faith, one baptism, one\r\nGod and Father of all, who is over\r\nall, and through all, and in all.”<a id=\"r790\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f790\"><sup>[790]</sup></a>\r\nSuch, then, are ye, having been\r\ntaught by such instructors, Paul\r\nthe Christ-bearer, and Timothy\r\nthe most faithful.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. vi.—Have respect to the bishop as to Christ Himself."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-227"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"799277b2477932e0b0ee7ecf09d4eb56eff7eab93f1cbdaac7404be681596388","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-f788","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":"f788","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f788\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r788\">788</a>. </span>Or, “heresy.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f788","text_sha256":"d123a8273bf52f71862ae6cb7fc1dd226be40c6dd7e969946b9aeb54e0c14a60","verified":false,"work_id":null}