{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">My brethren, I am\r\ngreatly enlarged in loving\r\nyou; and rejoicing\r\nexceedingly [over you],\r\nI seek to secure your\r\nsafety. Yet it is not I,\r\nbut Jesus Christ, for\r\nwhose sake being bound\r\nI fear the more, inasmuch\r\nas I am not yet perfect.\r\nBut your prayer to God\r\nshall make me perfect,\r\nthat I may attain to that\r\nportion which through\r\nmercy has been allotted\r\nme, while I flee to the\r\ngospel as to the flesh\r\nof Jesus, and to the\r\napostles as to the presbytery\r\nof the church.\r\nAnd let us also love the\r\nprophets, because they\r\ntoo have proclaimed\r\nthe gospel,<a id=\"r1175\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1175\"><sup>[1175]</sup></a> and placed\r\ntheir hope in Him,<a id=\"r1176\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1176\"><sup>[1176]</sup></a> and\r\nwaited for Him; in\r\nwhom also believing,\r\nthey were saved, through\r\nunion to Jesus Christ,\r\nbeing holy men, worthy\r\nof love and admiration,\r\nhaving had witness\r\nborne to them by\r\nJesus Christ, and being\r\nreckoned along with\r\n[us] in the gospel of\r\nthe common hope.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE PHILADELPHIANS.","Chap. v.—Pray for me."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-472"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d3d3c8ca9d1fa5c05f3529de04ed31248044645e307579edb59ac607ada9007b","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-f1176","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":"f1176","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1176\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1176\">1176</a>. </span>In Christ.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1176","text_sha256":"d5ac7a8e9c01995027f69279b4cf00c38ffcce21ba6f8d557679e1de117ad1dd","verified":false,"work_id":null}