{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">They are ashamed of the cross;\r\nthey mock at the passion; they\r\nmake a jest of the resurrection.\r\nThey are the offspring of that\r\nspirit who is the author of all evil,\r\nwho led Adam,<a id=\"r1277\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1277\"><sup>[1277]</sup></a> by means of his\r\nwife, to transgress the commandment,\r\nwho slew Abel by the hands\r\nof Cain, who fought against Job,\r\nwho was the accuser of Joshua<a id=\"r1278\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1278\"><sup>[1278]</sup></a>\r\nthe son of Josedech, who sought\r\nto “sift the faith”<a id=\"r1279\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1279\"><sup>[1279]</sup></a> of the apostles,\r\nwho stirred up the multitude of\r\nthe Jews against the Lord, who\r\nalso now “worketh in the children\r\nof disobedience;”<a id=\"r1280\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1280\"><sup>[1280]</sup></a> from whom the\r\nLord Jesus Christ will deliver us,\r\nwho prayed that the faith of the\r\napostles might not fail,<a id=\"r1281\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1281\"><sup>[1281]</sup></a> not because\r\nHe was not able of Himself\r\nto preserve it, but because He rejoiced\r\nin the pre-eminence of the\r\nFather. It is fitting, therefore,\r\nthat ye should keep aloof from\r\nsuch persons, and neither in private\r\nnor in public to talk with<a id=\"r1282\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1282\"><sup>[1282]</sup></a> them;\r\nbut to give heed to the law, and\r\nthe prophets, and to those who\r\nhave preached to you the word\r\nof salvation. But flee from all\r\nabominable heresies, and those that\r\ncause schisms, as the beginning of\r\nevils.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE SMYRNÆANS.","Chap. vii.—Let us stand aloof from such heretics."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-530"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b40756bfa6b1b1cbfde7afb35c67e9ee60843754e83fa6b28fc5f1e390b6f84b","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ZEC","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Zech. iii. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1278","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":"f1278","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1278\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1278\">1278</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Zechariah\">Zech.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 1.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1278","text_sha256":"caeb3861695ce61e7ca69dfe9e14dc892c4c696e3eb31c19cefcbed21d2e85d0","verified":false,"work_id":null}