{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Your prayers have reached to\r\nthe church of Antioch, and it is at\r\npeace. Coming from that place\r\nbound, I salute all; I who am not\r\nworthy to be styled from thence,\r\ninasmuch as I am the least of\r\nthem. Nevertheless, according to\r\nthe will of God, I have been\r\nthought worthy [of this honour],\r\nnot that I have any sense<a id=\"r1308\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1308\"><sup>[1308]</sup></a> [of\r\nhaving deserved it], but by the\r\ngrace of God, which I wish may\r\nbe perfectly given to me, that\r\nthrough your prayers I may attain\r\nto God. In order, therefore, that\r\nyour work may be complete both\r\non earth and in heaven, it is fitting\r\nthat, for the honour of God, your\r\nchurch should elect some worthy\r\ndelegate;<a id=\"r1309\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1309\"><sup>[1309]</sup></a> so that he, journeying\r\ninto Syria, may congratulate them\r\nthat they are [now] at peace, and\r\nare restored to their proper greatness,\r\nand that their proper constitution<a id=\"r1310\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1310\"><sup>[1310]</sup></a>\r\nhas been re-established\r\namong them. What appears to\r\nme proper to be done is this, that\r\nyou should send some one of your\r\nnumber with an epistle, so that,\r\nin company with them, he may\r\nrejoice over the tranquillity which,\r\naccording to the will of God,\r\nthey have obtained, and because\r\nthat, through your prayers, I have\r\nsecured Christ as a safe harbour.\r\nAs persons who are perfect, ye\r\nshould also aim at<a id=\"r1311\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1311\"><sup>[1311]</sup></a> those things\r\nwhich are perfect. For when ye\r\nare desirous to do well, God is also\r\nready to assist you.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE SMYRNÆANS.","Chap. xi.—Request to them to send a messenger to Antioch."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-546"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e3ce5498183afb4ed15b955669dc02bff15c02f40c98b939f9db2bce31e4a314","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-f1308","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":"f1308","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1308\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1308\">1308</a>. </span>Or, “from any conscience.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1308","text_sha256":"a8da2031142b67882f4d8c79726142b4091c0d2f424a475a3e2ff5e6d01b6fcd","verified":false,"work_id":null}