{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">If thou lovest the\r\ngood disciples, no thanks\r\nare due to thee on that\r\naccount; but rather seek\r\nby meekness to subdue\r\nthe more troublesome.\r\nEvery kind of wound is\r\nnot healed with the same\r\nplaster. Mitigate violent\r\nattacks [of disease]\r\nby gentle applications.<a id=\"r1327\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1327\"><sup>[1327]</sup></a>\r\nBe in all things “wise\r\nas a serpent, and harmless\r\nas a dove.”<a id=\"r1328\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1328\"><sup>[1328]</sup></a> For\r\nthis purpose thou art\r\ncomposed of both flesh\r\nand spirit, that thou\r\nmayest deal tenderly<a id=\"r1329\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1329\"><sup>[1329]</sup></a>\r\nwith those [evils] that\r\npresent themselves visibly\r\nbefore thee. And\r\nas respects those that\r\nare not seen,<a id=\"r1330\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1330\"><sup>[1330]</sup></a> pray that\r\n[God] would reveal\r\nthem unto thee, in order\r\nthat thou mayest be\r\nwanting in nothing, but\r\nmayest abound in every\r\ngift. The times call\r\nfor thee, as pilots do\r\nfor the winds, and as\r\none tossed with tempest\r\nseeks for the haven, so\r\nthat both thou [and\r\nthose under thy care]\r\nmay attain to God. Be\r\nsober as an athlete of\r\nGod: the prize set before\r\nthee is immortality\r\nand eternal life, of which\r\nthou art also persuaded.\r\nIn all things may my\r\nsoul be for thine,<a id=\"r1331\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1331\"><sup>[1331]</sup></a> and\r\nmy bonds also, which\r\nthou hast loved.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO POLYCARP.","Chap. ii.—Exhortations."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-564"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7be71381d89c8cadc4cbf6d3b0e469fcef19a5ed250bff64c8a978f4d66865d9","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-f1329","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":"f1329","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1329\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1329\">1329</a>. </span>Literally, “flatter.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1329","text_sha256":"44cab6f700be380fa5e746ab13a835f43cf4f27432fceb4e817ea6c901687796","verified":false,"work_id":null}