{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Now it becomes you\r\nalso not to treat your\r\nbishop too familiarly on\r\naccount of his youth,<a id=\"r901\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f901\"><sup>[901]</sup></a>\r\nbut to yield him all\r\nreverence, having respect\r\nto<a id=\"r902\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f902\"><sup>[902]</sup></a> the power of\r\nGod the Father, as I\r\nhave known even holy\r\npresbyters do, not judging\r\nrashly, from the\r\nmanifest youthful appearance<a id=\"r903\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f903\"><sup>[903]</sup></a>\r\n[of their\r\nbishop], but as being\r\nthemselves prudent in\r\nGod, submitting to him,\r\nor rather not to him,\r\nbut to the Father of\r\nJesus Christ, the bishop\r\nof us all. It is therefore\r\nfitting that you\r\nshould, after no hypocritical\r\nfashion, obey\r\n[your bishop], in honour\r\nof Him who has willed\r\nus [so to do], since he\r\nthat does not so deceives\r\nnot [by such\r\nconduct] the bishop that\r\nis visible, but seeks to\r\nmock Him that is invisible.\r\nAnd all such\r\nconduct has reference\r\nnot to man,<a id=\"r904\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f904\"><sup>[904]</sup></a> but to God,\r\nwho knows all secrets.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE MAGNESIANS.","Chap. iii.—Honour your youthful bishop."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-300"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c06fb3aaf06d7938dbe819f3db4b0e77613a0382000fca4a7b047881e34f6cf4","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-f901","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":"f901","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f901\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r901\">901</a>. </span>Literally, “to use the age of your bishop.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f901","text_sha256":"d7b7ddb59e54c0c481216e3f40e244bef92a14d9098a55995ce5fb6d1b60a9a2","verified":false,"work_id":null}