{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Be not ashamed of servants, for we possess the same nature\r\nin common with them. Do not hold women in abomination,\r\nfor they have given thee birth, and brought thee up. It is\r\nfitting, therefore, to love those that were the authors of our\r\nbirth (but only in the Lord), inasmuch as a man can produce\r\nno children without a woman. It is right, therefore, that we\r\nshould honour those who have had a part in giving us birth.\r\n“Neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman\r\nwithout the man,”<a id=\"r1919\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1919\"><sup>[1919]</sup></a> except in the case of those who were first\r\nformed. For the body of Adam was made out of the four\r\nelements, and that of Eve out of the side of Adam. And,\r\nindeed, the altogether peculiar birth of the Lord was of a\r\nvirgin alone. [This took place] not as if the lawful union\r\n[of man and wife] were abominable, but such a kind of birth\r\nwas fitting to God. For it became the Creator not to make\r\nuse of the ordinary method of generation, but of one that\r\nwas singular and strange, as being the Creator.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","APPENDIX. THE SPURIOUS EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS.","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO HERO, A DEACON OF ANTIOCH.","Chap. iv.—Servants and women are not to be despised."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-833"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7ce92f01ef157031cbca6708af27c9830e9827038fce8e83afd63c9d0660fd46","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. xi. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1919","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":"f1919","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1919\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1919\">1919</a>. </span>1 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"eleven\">xi.</abbr> 11.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1919","text_sha256":"2baba056eb0b4972c8b4c98202889a995f9ffdc0ac5b8fff152ad0ada23bc88d","verified":false,"work_id":null}