{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Now the virginity of\r\nMary was hidden from\r\nthe prince of this world,\r\nas was also her offspring,\r\nand the death of\r\nthe Lord; three mysteries\r\nof renown,<a id=\"r871\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f871\"><sup>[871]</sup></a> which\r\nwere wrought in silence\r\nby<a id=\"r872\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f872\"><sup>[872]</sup></a> God. How, then,\r\nwas He manifested to\r\nthe world?<a id=\"r873\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f873\"><sup>[873]</sup></a> A star\r\nshone forth in heaven\r\nabove all the other stars,\r\nthe light of which was\r\ninexpressible, while its\r\nnovelty struck men with\r\nastonishment. And all\r\nthe rest of the stars,\r\nwith the sun and moon,\r\nformed a chorus to this\r\nstar, and its light was\r\nexceedingly great above\r\nthem all. And there\r\nwas agitation felt as to\r\nwhence this new spectacle\r\ncame, so unlike to\r\neverything else [in the\r\nheavens]. Hence every\r\nkind of magic was destroyed,\r\nand every bond\r\nof wickedness disappeared;\r\nignorance was\r\nremoved, and the old\r\nkingdom abolished, God\r\nHimself being manifested\r\nin human form\r\nfor the renewal of eternal\r\nlife. And now that\r\ntook a beginning which\r\nhad been prepared by\r\nGod. Henceforth all\r\nthings were in a state\r\nof tumult, because He\r\nmeditated the abolition\r\nof death.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. xix.—Three celebrated mysteries."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-277"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"927d063b079d14670ab444c4a122af6fed204a12f82867c4fa6c86f55fabaa91","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-f871","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":"f871","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f871\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r871\">871</a>. </span>Literally, “of noise.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f871","text_sha256":"af174de45f8512c472d559e01518976b4a63592275959413a3bee1d01ad00d1a","verified":false,"work_id":null}