{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I give you these instructions,\r\nbeloved, assured\r\nthat ye also hold\r\nthe same opinions [as I\r\ndo]. But I guard you\r\nbeforehand from those\r\nbeasts in the shape of\r\nmen, whom you must\r\nnot only not receive,\r\nbut, if it be possible, not\r\neven meet with; only\r\nyou must pray to God\r\nfor them, if by any\r\nmeans they may be\r\nbrought to repentance,\r\nwhich, however, will be\r\nvery difficult. Yet\r\nJesus Christ, who is our\r\ntrue life, has the power\r\nof [effecting] this. But\r\nif these things were\r\ndone by our Lord only\r\nin appearance, then am\r\nI also only in appearance\r\nbound. And why\r\nhave I also surrendered\r\nmyself to death, to fire,\r\nto the sword, to the wild\r\nbeasts? But, [in fact,]\r\nhe who is near to the\r\nsword is near to God;\r\nhe that is among the\r\nwild beasts is in company\r\nwith God; provided\r\nonly he be so in\r\nthe name of Jesus Christ.\r\nI undergo all things that\r\nI may suffer together\r\nwith Him,<a id=\"r1257\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1257\"><sup>[1257]</sup></a> He who became\r\na perfect man inwardly\r\nstrengthening\r\nme.<a id=\"r1258\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1258\"><sup>[1258]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE SMYRNÆANS.","Chap. iv.—Beware of these heretics."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-516"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9fd002fc5defd5e58d826753705492f9aca99a6d8cb82b7a4a8f13753950bb7d","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PHP","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Phil. iv. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1258","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":"f1258","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1258\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1258\">1258</a>. </span>Comp. <abbr title=\"Philippians\">Phil.</abbr> <abbr title=\"four\">iv.</abbr> 13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1258","text_sha256":"55b018d9cc3936dfa77ad40ee2aac31a24bdbfcac982855820010425baaab05c","verified":false,"work_id":null}