{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I exhort thee in God, that thou add [speed] to thy course,\r\nand that thou vindicate thy dignity. Have a care to preserve\r\nconcord with the saints. Bear [the burdens of] the weak,\r\nthat “thou mayest fulfil the law of Christ.”<a id=\"r1902\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1902\"><sup>[1902]</sup></a> Devote<a id=\"r1903\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1903\"><sup>[1903]</sup></a> thyself\r\nto fasting and prayer, but not beyond measure, lest thou\r\ndestroy thyself<a id=\"r1904\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1904\"><sup>[1904]</sup></a> thereby. Do not altogether abstain from\r\nwine and flesh, for these things are not to be viewed with\r\nabhorrence, since [the Scripture] saith, “Ye shall eat the\r\ngood things of the earth.”<a id=\"r1905\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1905\"><sup>[1905]</sup></a> And again, “Ye shall eat flesh\r\neven as herbs.”<a id=\"r1906\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1906\"><sup>[1906]</sup></a> And again, “Wine maketh glad the heart\r\nof man, and oil exhilarates, and bread strengthens him.”<a id=\"r1907\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1907\"><sup>[1907]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_468\">468</span>But all are to be used with moderation, as being the gifts\r\nof God. “For who shall eat or who shall drink without\r\nHim? For if anything be beautiful, it is His; and if anything\r\nbe good, it is His.”<a id=\"r1908\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1908\"><sup>[1908]</sup></a> Give attention to reading,<a id=\"r1909\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1909\"><sup>[1909]</sup></a> that thou\r\nmayest not only thyself know the laws, but mayest also explain\r\nthem to others, as the earnest servant<a id=\"r1910\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1910\"><sup>[1910]</sup></a> of God. “No man\r\nthat warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life,\r\nthat he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier;\r\nand if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned\r\nexcept he strive lawfully.”<a id=\"r1911\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1911\"><sup>[1911]</sup></a> I that am in bonds pray that\r\nmy soul may be in place of yours.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","APPENDIX. THE SPURIOUS EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS.","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO HERO, A DEACON OF ANTIOCH.","Chap. i.—Exhortations to earnestness and moderation."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-830"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"755680769ec16ad0c9ab58025ca00efead0a341692d332e4b0d269e4404b682d","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-f1904","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":"f1904","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1904\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1904\">1904</a>. </span>Literally, “cast thyself down.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1904","text_sha256":"607617904e79a5eb4460ec5e9472c798f39ebfa8c30ca7ad5863d7472aaef927","verified":false,"work_id":null}