{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">For it is not my desire\r\nto act towards you\r\nas a man-pleaser,<a id=\"r1089\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1089\"><sup>[1089]</sup></a> but as\r\npleasing God, even as\r\nalso ye please Him. For\r\nneither shall I ever have\r\nsuch [another] opportunity\r\nof attaining to\r\nGod; nor will ye, if ye\r\nshall now be silent, ever\r\nbe entitled to<a id=\"r1090\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1090\"><sup>[1090]</sup></a> the honour\r\nof a better work. For\r\nif ye are silent concerning me, I shall become\r\nGod’s; but if you show\r\nyour love to my flesh,\r\nI shall again have to run\r\nmy race. Pray, then,\r\ndo not seek to confer\r\nany greater favour upon\r\nme than that I be sacrificed\r\nto God while the\r\naltar is still prepared;\r\nthat, being gathered\r\ntogether in love, ye may\r\nsing praise to the Father,\r\nthrough Christ Jesus,\r\nthat God has deemed\r\nme, the bishop of Syria,\r\nworthy to be sent for<a id=\"r1091\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1091\"><sup>[1091]</sup></a>\r\nfrom the east unto the\r\nwest. It is good to set\r\nfrom the world unto\r\nGod, that I may rise\r\nagain to Him.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE ROMANS.","Chap. ii.—Do not save me from martyrdom."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-416"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f72b10bfb97cb05ff2c8935b11a35f09428a6babfaecfea3c93f774632ce1d90","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-f1089","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":"f1089","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1089\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1089\">1089</a>. </span>Some translate as in longer recension, but there is in the one case\r\nὑμῖν, and in the other ὑμᾶς.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1089","text_sha256":"6d2d9202beed07bfeeb4540db608b958c314c5f873857b4c7e1e29c6576364cb","verified":false,"work_id":null}