{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Be ye subject to the bishop as\r\nto the Lord, for “he watches for\r\nyour souls, as one that shall give\r\naccount to God.”<a id=\"r994\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f994\"><sup>[994]</sup></a> Wherefore also,\r\nye appear to me to live not after\r\nthe manner of men, but according\r\nto Jesus Christ, who died for us,\r\nin order that, by believing in His\r\ndeath, ye may by baptism be made\r\npartakers of His resurrection. It\r\nis therefore necessary, whatsoever\r\nthings ye do, to do nothing without\r\nthe bishop. And be ye subject\r\nalso to the presbytery, as to the\r\napostles of Jesus Christ, who is\r\nour hope, in whom, if we live, we\r\nshall be found in Him. It behoves\r\nyou also, in every way, to please\r\nthe deacons, who are [ministers] of\r\nthe mysteries of Christ Jesus; for\r\nthey are not ministers of meat and\r\ndrink, but servants of the church\r\nof God. They are bound, therefore,\r\nto avoid all grounds of accusation\r\n[against them], as they would\r\na burning fire. Let them, then,\r\nprove themselves to be such.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE TRALLIANS.","Chap. ii.—Be subject to the bishop, etc."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-362"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b983e3cf883ec4325c62ba481c03afa82aa550ffc1f011fcd99bcf47e2ec2102","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"HEB","chapter":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. xiii. 17","verse":17,"verse_end":17}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f994","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":"f994","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f994\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r994\">994</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Hebrews\">Heb.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirteen\">xiii.</abbr> 17.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f994","text_sha256":"9008fb37831405b0e85be30022dfb2eda12266babba5c3677cd7e77d151711cf","verified":false,"work_id":null}