{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Do ye also avoid those wicked\r\noffshoots of his,<a id=\"r1066\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1066\"><sup>[1066]</sup></a> Simon his first-born\r\nson, and Menander, and\r\nBasilides, and all his wicked mob\r\nof followers,<a id=\"r1067\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1067\"><sup>[1067]</sup></a> the worshippers of a\r\nman, whom also the prophet Jeremiah\r\npronounces accursed.<a id=\"r1068\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1068\"><sup>[1068]</sup></a> Flee\r\nalso the impure Nicolaitanes, falsely\r\nso called,<a id=\"r1069\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1069\"><sup>[1069]</sup></a> who are lovers of pleasure,\r\nand given to calumnious\r\nspeeches. Avoid also the children\r\nof the evil one, Theodotus\r\nand Cleobulus, who produce death-bearing\r\nfruit, whereof if any one\r\ntastes, he instantly dies, and that\r\nnot a mere temporary death, but one\r\nthat shall endure for ever. These\r\nmen are not the planting of the\r\nFather, but are an accursed brood.\r\nAnd says the Lord, “Let every\r\nplant which my heavenly Father\r\nhas not planted be rooted up.”<a id=\"r1070\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1070\"><sup>[1070]</sup></a>\r\nFor if they had been branches of\r\nthe Father, they would not have\r\nbeen “enemies of the cross of\r\nChrist,”<a id=\"r1071\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1071\"><sup>[1071]</sup></a> but rather of those who\r\n“killed the Lord of glory.”<a id=\"r1072\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1072\"><sup>[1072]</sup></a> But\r\nnow, by denying the cross, and\r\nbeing ashamed of the passion, they\r\ncover the transgression of the Jews,\r\nthose fighters against God, those\r\nmurderers of the Lord; for it were\r\ntoo little to style them merely\r\nmurderers of the prophets. But\r\nChrist invites you to [share in] His\r\nimmortality, by His passion and\r\nresurrection, inasmuch as ye are\r\nHis members.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE TRALLIANS.","Chap. xi.—Avoid the deadly errors of the Docetæ."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-398"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"dd5c1fe69d5b8ec1979ada76b6a669fa4f0f08b8998a5fc6a18f6c7035f0c69e","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PHP","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Phil. iii. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1071","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":"f1071","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1071\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1071\">1071</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Philippians\">Phil.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 18.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1071","text_sha256":"d50321d01dcadb2df5323865056f58b67b7fdf8a4f2bf47e3f4302bea476f2ed","verified":false,"work_id":null}