{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">From Syria even unto\r\nRome I fight with\r\nbeasts,<a id=\"r1108\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1108\"><sup>[1108]</sup></a> both by land\r\nand sea, both by night\r\nand day, being bound\r\nto ten leopards, I mean\r\na band of soldiers, who,\r\neven when they receive\r\nbenefits,<a id=\"r1109\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1109\"><sup>[1109]</sup></a> show themselves\r\nall the worse. But\r\nI am the more instructed\r\nby their injuries [to act\r\nas a disciple of Christ];\r\n“yet am I not thereby\r\njustified.”<a id=\"r1110\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1110\"><sup>[1110]</sup></a> May I enjoy\r\nthe wild beasts that are\r\nprepared for me; and I\r\npray they may be found\r\neager to rush upon me,\r\nwhich also I will entice\r\nto devour me speedily,\r\nand not deal with me as\r\nwith some, whom, out\r\nof fear, they have not\r\ntouched. But if they\r\nbe unwilling to assail\r\nme, I will compel them\r\nto do so. Pardon me\r\n[in this]: I know what\r\nis for my benefit. Now\r\nI begin to be a disciple.\r\nAnd let no one, of things\r\nvisible or invisible, envy<a id=\"r1111\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1111\"><sup>[1111]</sup></a>\r\nme that I should attain\r\nto Jesus Christ. Let\r\nfire and the cross; let the\r\ncrowds of wild beasts;\r\nlet tearings,<a id=\"r1112\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1112\"><sup>[1112]</sup></a> breakings,\r\nand dislocations\r\nof bones; let cutting\r\noff of members; let\r\nshatterings of the whole\r\nbody; and let all the\r\ndreadful<a id=\"r1113\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1113\"><sup>[1113]</sup></a> torments of\r\nthe devil come upon me:\r\nonly let me attain to\r\nJesus Christ.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE ROMANS.","Chap. v.—I desire to die."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-428"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d76a5bad3e174473a492bd8a7b7509028bfa8ddb6332c16ea75afb3ed152328b","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-f1109","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":"f1109","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1109\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1109\">1109</a>. </span>Probably the soldiers received gifts from the Christians, to treat\r\nIgnatius with kindness.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1109","text_sha256":"1a64071130200bc05eb926fd0ad931342f5c399d61a9ab1977b641d11d0e5b81","verified":false,"work_id":null}