{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Inasmuch as your name, which is greatly beloved, is\r\nacceptable to me in God, [your name] which ye have acquired\r\nby nature, through a right and just will, and also by\r\nthe faith and love of Jesus Christ our Saviour, and ye are\r\nimitators of God, and are fervent in the blood of God, and\r\nhave speedily completed a work congenial to you; [for] when\r\nye heard that I was bound,<a id=\"r1400\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1400\"><sup>[1400]</sup></a> so as to be able to do nothing for\r\nthe sake of the common name and hope (and I hope, through\r\nyour prayers, that I may be devoured by beasts at Rome, so\r\nthat by means of this of which I have been accounted worthy,\r\nI may be endowed with strength to be a disciple of God), ye\r\nwere diligent to come and see me. Seeing, then, that we\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_278\">278</span>have become acquainted with your multitude<a id=\"r1401\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1401\"><sup>[1401]</sup></a> in the name\r\nof God, by Onesimus, who is your bishop, in love which is\r\nunutterable, whom I pray that ye love in Jesus Christ our\r\nLord, and that all of you imitate his example;<a id=\"r1402\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1402\"><sup>[1402]</sup></a> for blessed\r\nis He who has given you such a bishop, even as ye deserve\r\n[to have].<a id=\"r1403\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1403\"><sup>[1403]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS AFTER THE SYRIAC VERSION.","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS: TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. i."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-602"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0644934d9ed068a3c6c450075cb43268e37534e15ffc9cf77fd5e3d5033748ab","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-f1400","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":"f1400","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1400\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1400\">1400</a>. </span>Literally, “bound from actions.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1400","text_sha256":"375572c61095e7bb91619fa25dee4777cabec1cafc3a8fd6cd442d035225c318","verified":false,"work_id":null}