{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">But some most worthless persons\r\nare in the habit of carrying about\r\nthe name [of Jesus Christ] in wicked\r\nguile, while yet they practise things\r\nunworthy of God, and hold opinions\r\ncontrary to the doctrine of Christ,\r\nto their own destruction, and that\r\nof those who give credit to them,\r\nwhom you must avoid as ye would\r\nwild beasts. For “the righteous\r\nman who avoids them is saved for\r\never; but the destruction of the\r\nungodly is sudden, and a subject\r\nof rejoicing.”<a id=\"r792\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f792\"><sup>[792]</sup></a> For “they are\r\ndumb dogs, that cannot bark,”<a id=\"r793\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f793\"><sup>[793]</sup></a> raving\r\nmad, and biting secretly, against\r\nwhom ye must be on your guard,\r\nsince they labour under an incurable\r\ndisease. But our Physician\r\nis the only true God, the unbegotten\r\nand unapproachable, the\r\nLord of all, the Father and Begetter\r\nof the only-begotten Son.\r\nWe have also as a Physician the\r\nLord our God, Jesus the Christ,\r\nthe only-begotten Son and Word,\r\nbefore time began,<a id=\"r794\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f794\"><sup>[794]</sup></a> but who afterwards\r\nbecame also man, of Mary\r\nthe virgin. For “the Word was\r\nmade flesh.”<a id=\"r795\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f795\"><sup>[795]</sup></a> Being incorporeal,\r\nHe was in the body; being impassible,\r\nHe was in a passible body;\r\nbeing immortal, He was in a mortal\r\nbody; being life, He became\r\nsubject to corruption, that He\r\nmight free our souls from death\r\nand corruption, and heal them, and\r\nmight restore them to health, when\r\nthey were diseased with ungodliness\r\nand wicked lusts.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. vii.—Beware of false teachers."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-231"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"dc09cc113b889460ec65f9872e54fa3d6dc964f4cea94ad8bac34ae1399de46a","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-f794","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":"f794","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f794\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r794\">794</a>. </span>Or, “before the ages.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f794","text_sha256":"05a0c1a89d03f08e204bd0328841c390c2545ab47e917e681b74aa36efe9e797","verified":false,"work_id":null}