{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">All the ends of the world, and\r\nall the kingdoms of this earth,<a id=\"r1122\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1122\"><sup>[1122]</sup></a>\r\nshall profit me nothing. It is\r\nbetter for me to die for the sake\r\nof Jesus Christ, than to reign over\r\nall the ends of the earth. “For\r\nwhat is a man profited, if he gain\r\nthe whole world, but lose his own\r\nsoul?” I long after the Lord, the\r\nSon of the true God and Father,\r\neven Jesus Christ. Him I seek,\r\nwho died for us and rose again.\r\nPardon me, brethren: do not hinder\r\nme in attaining to life; for\r\nJesus is the life of believers. Do\r\nnot wish to keep me in a state of\r\ndeath,<a id=\"r1123\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1123\"><sup>[1123]</sup></a> for life without Christ is\r\ndeath. While I desire to belong\r\nto God, do not ye give me over to\r\nthe world. Suffer me to obtain\r\npure light: when I have gone\r\nthither, I shall indeed be a man\r\nof God. Permit me to be an imitator\r\nof the passion of Christ, my\r\nGod. If any one has Him within\r\nhimself, let him consider what I\r\ndesire, and let him have sympathy\r\nwith me, as knowing how I am\r\nstraitened.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE ROMANS.","Chap. vi.—By death I shall attain true life."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-434"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"502134a59f619ad33f0715a9ab7fe855aa57124fbece503e8cc5f33a2b08b5b0","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-f1123","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":"f1123","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1123\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1123\">1123</a>. </span>Literally, “to die.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1123","text_sha256":"c1e11dea6ae0996af91859bf9f1e671c678b03ef395c2ff69b672eb933c6b314","verified":false,"work_id":null}