{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Seeing, then, all things have an\r\nend, and there is set before us life\r\nupon our observance [of God’s precepts],\r\nbut death as the result of\r\ndisobedience, and every one, according\r\nto the choice he makes,\r\nshall go to his own place, let us flee\r\nfrom death, and make choice of\r\nlife. For I remark, that two different\r\ncharacters are found among\r\nmen—the one true coin, the other\r\nspurious. The truly devout man\r\nis the right kind of coin, stamped\r\nby God Himself. The ungodly\r\nman, again, is false coin, unlawful,\r\nspurious, counterfeit, wrought not\r\nby God, but by the devil. I do\r\nnot mean to say that there are two\r\ndifferent human natures, but that\r\nthere is one humanity, sometimes\r\nbelonging to God, and sometimes\r\nto the devil. If any one is truly\r\nreligious, he is a man of God; but\r\nif he is irreligious, he is a man of\r\nthe devil, made such, not by nature,\r\nbut by his own choice. The unbelieving\r\nbear the image of the prince\r\nof wickedness. The believing possess\r\nthe image of their Prince,\r\nGod the Father, and Jesus Christ,\r\nthrough whom, if we are not in\r\nreadiness to die for the truth into\r\nHis passion,<a id=\"r924\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f924\"><sup>[924]</sup></a> His life is not in us.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE MAGNESIANS.","Chap. v.—Death is the fate of all such."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-310"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e677def63a419f2c48946a21181c6479fdfb40274936b61de2b2e9548225105a","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-f924","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":"f924","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f924\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r924\">924</a>. </span>Or, “after the likeness of His passion.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f924","text_sha256":"98f29727af2de8ffa8f4d714cc83887ec8dba213b00884abdb319c7a1deece7a","verified":false,"work_id":null}