{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">The prince of this world would\r\nfain carry me away, and corrupt\r\nmy disposition towards God. Let\r\nnone of you, therefore, who are\r\n[in Rome] help him; rather be ye\r\non my side, that is, on the side of\r\nGod. Do not speak of Jesus\r\nChrist, and yet prefer this world\r\nto Him. Let not envy find a\r\ndwelling-place among you; nor\r\neven should I, when present with\r\nyou, exhort you to it, be ye persuaded,\r\nbut rather give credit to\r\nthose things which I now write to\r\nyou. For though I am alive while\r\nI write to you, yet I am eager to\r\ndie for the sake of Christ. My\r\nlove<a id=\"r1127\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1127\"><sup>[1127]</sup></a> has been crucified, and there\r\nis no fire in me that loves anything;\r\nbut there is living water springing\r\nup in me,<a id=\"r1128\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1128\"><sup>[1128]</sup></a> and which says to me\r\ninwardly, Come to the Father. I\r\nhave no delight in corruptible\r\nfood, nor in the pleasures of this\r\nlife. I desire the bread of God,\r\nthe heavenly bread, the bread of\r\nlife, which is the flesh of Jesus\r\nChrist, the Son of God, who became\r\nafterwards of the seed of\r\nDavid and Abraham; and I desire\r\nthe drink, namely His blood, which\r\nis incorruptible love and eternal\r\nlife.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE ROMANS.","Chap. vii.—Reason of desiring to die."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-438"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ab8b5bd44ef1986875cd0ce677402e4f4f2517581465219d8ccf4305393d891e","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-f1127","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":"f1127","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1127\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1127\">1127</a>. </span>Some understand by <i>love</i> in this passage, <i>Christ Himself</i>; others\r\nregard it as referring to <i>the natural desires of the heart</i>.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1127","text_sha256":"9a9319707397bd0f887c5d7524f0ca0575550b15ec6b305ba5640ac04e5d6e94","verified":false,"work_id":null}