{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Seeing that the church which is\r\nat Antioch in Syria is, as report\r\nhas informed me, at peace, through\r\nyour prayers, I also am the more\r\nencouraged, resting without anxiety\r\nin God,<a id=\"r1369\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1369\"><sup>[1369]</sup></a> if indeed by means of\r\nsuffering I may attain to God, so\r\nthat, through your prayers, I may\r\nbe found a disciple [of Christ].\r\nIt is fitting, O Polycarp, most\r\nblessed in God, to assemble a very\r\nsolemn<a id=\"r1370\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1370\"><sup>[1370]</sup></a> council, and to elect one\r\nwhom you greatly love, and know\r\nto be a man of activity, who may\r\nbe designated the messenger of\r\nGod;<a id=\"r1371\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1371\"><sup>[1371]</sup></a> and to bestow on him the\r\nhonour of going into Syria, so\r\nthat, going into Syria, he may\r\nglorify your ever active love to the\r\npraise of God. A Christian has\r\nnot power over himself, but must\r\nalways be ready for<a id=\"r1372\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1372\"><sup>[1372]</sup></a> the service\r\nof God. Now, this work is both\r\nGod’s and yours, when ye shall\r\nhave completed it. For I trust\r\nthat, through grace, ye are prepared\r\nfor every good work pertaining\r\nto God. Knowing your\r\nenergetic love of the truth, I have\r\nexhorted you by this brief epistle.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO POLYCARP.","Chap. vii.—Request that Polycarp would send a messenger to Antioch."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-586"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d5b0ac67c5e3bdd84b76a05b9b5e0575ad7b4f82976e220cd5ad6988de3bd5a7","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-f1372","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":"f1372","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1372\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1372\">1372</a>. </span>Literally, “at leisure for.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1372","text_sha256":"cfeddf8b2c7642e5cdc136524579d154fd20e7eddc99d1689c7527198e74603e","verified":false,"work_id":null}