{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Be on your guard, therefore,\r\nagainst such persons, that ye admit\r\nnot of a snare for your own souls.\r\nAnd act so that your life shall be\r\nwithout offence to all men, lest ye\r\nbecome as “a snare upon a watch-tower,\r\nand as a net which is spread\r\nout.”<a id=\"r1027\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1027\"><sup>[1027]</sup></a> For “he that does not\r\nheal himself in his own works, is\r\nthe brother of him that destroys\r\nhimself.”<a id=\"r1028\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1028\"><sup>[1028]</sup></a> If, therefore, ye also\r\nput away conceit, arrogance, disdain,\r\nand haughtiness, it will be\r\nyour privilege to be inseparably\r\nunited to God, for “He is nigh\r\nunto those that fear Him.”<a id=\"r1029\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1029\"><sup>[1029]</sup></a> And\r\nsays He, “Upon whom will I\r\nlook, but upon him that is humble\r\nand quiet, and that trembles at\r\nmy words?”<a id=\"r1030\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1030\"><sup>[1030]</sup></a> And do ye also\r\nreverence your bishop as Christ\r\nHimself, according as the blessed\r\napostles have enjoined you. He\r\nthat is within the altar is pure,\r\nwherefore also he is obedient to\r\nthe bishop and presbyters; but he\r\nthat is without is one that does\r\nanything apart from the bishop, the\r\npresbyters, and the deacons. Such\r\na person is defiled in his conscience,\r\nand is worse than an infidel. For\r\nwhat is the bishop but one who\r\nbeyond all others possesses all\r\npower and authority, so far as it is\r\npossible for a man to possess it, who\r\naccording to his ability has been\r\nmade an imitator of the Christ of\r\nGod?<a id=\"r1031\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1031\"><sup>[1031]</sup></a> And what is the presbytery\r\nbut a sacred assembly, the counsellors\r\nand assessors of the bishop?\r\nAnd what are the deacons but\r\nimitators of the angelic powers,<a id=\"r1032\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1032\"><sup>[1032]</sup></a>\r\nfulfilling a pure and blameless\r\nministry unto him, as the holy\r\nStephen did to the blessed James,\r\nTimothy and Linus to Paul,\r\nAnencletus and Clement to Peter?\r\nHe, therefore, that will not yield\r\nobedience to such, must needs be\r\none utterly without God, an impious\r\nman who despises Christ,\r\nand depreciates His appointments.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE TRALLIANS.","Chap. vii.—The same continued."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-382"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bf0aaf42939f57b6ce089a9afb6c85ee0c342a549793e0283aabfa27aa2b5e2f","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PRO","chapter":18,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. xviii. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1028","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":"f1028","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1028\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1028\">1028</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Proverbs\">Prov.</abbr> <abbr title=\"eighteen\">xviii.</abbr> 9 (<abbr title=\"Septuagint\">LXX.</abbr>).</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1028","text_sha256":"050a3bc80eadb32c96813cb60b6f41ef47bec49665783b91beb4b65920838b31","verified":false,"work_id":null}