{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Now, He suffered all these things\r\nfor us; and He suffered them\r\nreally, and not in appearance only,\r\neven as also He truly rose again.\r\nBut not, as some of the unbelievers,\r\nwho are ashamed of the formation\r\nof man, and the cross, and death\r\nitself, affirm, that in appearance\r\nonly, and not in truth, He took a\r\nbody of the Virgin, and suffered\r\nonly in appearance, forgetting, as\r\nthey do, Him who said, “The\r\nWord was made flesh;”<a id=\"r1241\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1241\"><sup>[1241]</sup></a> and again,\r\n“Destroy this temple, and in three\r\ndays I will raise it up;”<a id=\"r1242\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1242\"><sup>[1242]</sup></a> and once\r\nmore, “If I be lifted up from the\r\nearth, I will draw all men unto\r\nme.”<a id=\"r1243\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1243\"><sup>[1243]</sup></a> The Word therefore did\r\ndwell in flesh, for “Wisdom built\r\nherself an house.”<a id=\"r1244\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1244\"><sup>[1244]</sup></a> The Word\r\nraised up again His own temple on\r\nthe third day, when it had been\r\ndestroyed by the Jews fighting\r\nagainst Christ. The Word, when\r\nHis flesh was lifted up, after the\r\nmanner of the brazen serpent in\r\nthe wilderness, drew all men to\r\nhimself for their eternal salvation.<a id=\"r1245\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1245\"><sup>[1245]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE SMYRNÆANS.","Chap. ii.—Christ’s true passion."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-510"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"63bede023a4310f55100a361397ca654a59623b3a5b7b8dcd6c5debf59574de6","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"NUM","chapter":21,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Num. xxi. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9},{"book":"JHN","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John iii. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1245","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":"f1245","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1245\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1245\">1245</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Numbers\">Num.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-one\">xxi.</abbr> 9; John <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1245","text_sha256":"90d8c8e3ff2067216deb52d91f6d3c11dd80f1d58b42423f2490487a115bc627","verified":false,"work_id":null}