{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">And do ye reverence them as\r\nChrist Jesus, of whose place they\r\nare the keepers, even as the bishop\r\nis the representative of the Father\r\nof all things, and the presbyters\r\nare the sanhedrim of God, and assembly<a id=\"r1001\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1001\"><sup>[1001]</sup></a>\r\nof the apostles of Christ.\r\nApart from these there is no elect\r\nchurch, no congregation of holy\r\nones, no assembly of saints. I am\r\npersuaded that ye also are of this\r\nopinion. For I have received the\r\nmanifestation<a id=\"r1002\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1002\"><sup>[1002]</sup></a> of your love, and\r\nstill have it with me, in your\r\nbishop, whose very appearance is\r\nhighly instructive, and his meekness\r\nof itself a power; whom I\r\nimagine even the ungodly must\r\nreverence. Loving you as I do, I\r\navoid writing in any severer strain\r\nto you, that I may not seem harsh\r\nto any, or wanting [in tenderness].\r\nI am indeed bound for the sake of\r\nChrist, but I am not yet worthy of\r\nChrist. But when I am perfected,\r\nperhaps I shall then become so.\r\nI do not issue orders like an apostle.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE TRALLIANS.","Chap. iii.—Honour the deacons, etc."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-366"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"741e2eec0b0475417c309711df10743851d045b1d15d28fc4d176a13b6aed41d","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-f1002","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":"f1002","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1002\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1002\">1002</a>. </span>Or, “pattern.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1002","text_sha256":"151ec2c0cb91bcd593c15adf869de44ee40fa4379e7f5ca55356db14b7de8868","verified":false,"work_id":null}