{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Keep yourselves, then, from\r\nthose evil plants which Jesus Christ\r\ndoes not tend, but that wild beast,\r\nthe destroyer of men, because they\r\nare not the planting of the Father,\r\nbut the seed of the wicked one.\r\nNot that I have found any division\r\namong you do I write these things;\r\nbut I arm you beforehand, as the\r\nchildren of God. For as many as\r\nare of Christ are also with the\r\nbishop; but as many as fall away\r\nfrom him, and embrace communion\r\nwith the accursed, these shall be\r\ncut off along with them. For they\r\nare not Christ’s husbandry, but the\r\nseed of the enemy, from whom\r\nmay you ever be delivered by the\r\nprayers of the shepherd, that most\r\nfaithful and gentle shepherd who\r\npresides over you. I therefore\r\nexhort you in the Lord to receive\r\nwith all tenderness those that repent\r\nand return to the unity of the\r\nchurch, that through your kindness\r\nand forbearance they may\r\nrecover<a id=\"r1152\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1152\"><sup>[1152]</sup></a> themselves out of the\r\nsnare of the devil, and becoming\r\nworthy of Jesus Christ, may obtain\r\neternal salvation in the kingdom\r\nof Christ. Brethren, be not deceived.\r\nIf any man follows him\r\nthat separates from the truth, he\r\nshall not inherit the kingdom of\r\nGod; and if any man does not\r\nstand aloof from the preacher of\r\nfalsehood, he shall be condemned\r\nto hell. For it is obligatory neither\r\nto separate from the godly, nor to\r\nassociate with the ungodly. If any\r\none walks according to a strange<a id=\"r1153\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1153\"><sup>[1153]</sup></a>\r\nopinion, he is not of Christ, nor a\r\npartaker of His passion; but is a\r\nfox,<a id=\"r1154\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1154\"><sup>[1154]</sup></a> a destroyer of the vineyard of\r\nChrist. Have no fellowship<a id=\"r1155\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1155\"><sup>[1155]</sup></a> with\r\nsuch a man, lest ye perish along\r\nwith him, even should he be thy\r\nfather, thy son, thy brother, or a\r\nmember of thy family. For says\r\n[the Scripture], “Thine eye shall\r\nnot spare him.”<a id=\"r1156\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1156\"><sup>[1156]</sup></a> You ought therefore\r\nto “hate those that hate\r\nGod, and to waste away [with\r\ngrief] on account of His enemies.”<a id=\"r1157\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1157\"><sup>[1157]</sup></a>\r\nI do not mean that you\r\nshould beat them or persecute them,\r\nas do the Gentiles “that know not\r\nthe Lord and God;”<a id=\"r1158\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1158\"><sup>[1158]</sup></a> but that you\r\nshould regard them as your enemies,\r\nand separate yourselves from\r\nthem, while yet you admonish\r\nthem, and exhort them to repentance,\r\nif it may be they will hear, if\r\nit may be they will submit themselves.\r\nFor our God is a lover of\r\nmankind, and “will have all men\r\nto be saved, and to come to the\r\nknowledge of the truth.”<a id=\"r1159\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1159\"><sup>[1159]</sup></a> Wherefore\r\n“He makes His sun to rise\r\nupon the evil and on the good, and\r\nsendeth rain on the just and on the\r\nunjust;”<a id=\"r1160\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1160\"><sup>[1160]</sup></a> of whose kindness the\r\nLord, wishing us also to be imitators,\r\nsays, “Be ye perfect, even\r\nas also your Father that is in heaven\r\nis perfect.”<a id=\"r1161\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1161\"><sup>[1161]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. 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