{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">From Syria, and even unto Rome, I am cast among wild\r\nbeasts, by sea and by land, by night and by day, being bound\r\nbetween ten leopards, which are the band of soldiers, who,\r\neven when I do good to them, all the more do evil unto me.\r\nI, however, am the rather instructed by their injurious treatment;<a id=\"r1418\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1418\"><sup>[1418]</sup></a>\r\nbut not on this account am I justified to myself. I\r\nrejoice in the beasts which are prepared for me, and I pray\r\nthat they may in haste be found for me; and I will provoke\r\nthem speedily to devour me, and not be as those which are\r\nafraid of some other men,<a id=\"r1419\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1419\"><sup>[1419]</sup></a> and will not approach them:\r\neven should they not be willing to approach me, I will go\r\nwith violence against them. Know me from myself what\r\nis expedient for me.<a id=\"r1420\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1420\"><sup>[1420]</sup></a> Let no one<a id=\"r1421\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1421\"><sup>[1421]</sup></a> envy me of those things\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_284\">284</span>which are seen and which are not seen, that I should be\r\naccounted worthy of Jesus Christ. Fire, and the cross, and\r\nthe beasts that are prepared, cutting off of the limbs, and\r\nscattering of the bones, and crushing of the whole body,\r\nharsh torments of the devil—let these come upon me, but<a id=\"r1422\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1422\"><sup>[1422]</sup></a>\r\nonly let me be accounted worthy of Jesus Christ.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS AFTER THE SYRIAC VERSION.","THE THIRD EPISTLE OF THE SAME ST IGNATIUS.","Chap. v."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-616"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6cde913735f4dd390a80581314191e833320c1f15ffd23b18910ba8d4ddace3c","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-f1421","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":"f1421","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1421\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1421\">1421</a>. </span>Literally, “nothing.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1421","text_sha256":"bfc6e04473f10728ea14864674aa81d7dd23b390873b969da2e80814c7126941","verified":false,"work_id":null}