{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">For if I, in this brief\r\nspace of time, have\r\nenjoyed such fellowship\r\nwith your bishop—I\r\nmean not of a mere\r\nhuman, but of a spiritual\r\nnature—how much more\r\ndo I reckon you happy\r\nwho are so joined to him\r\nas the church is to Jesus\r\nChrist, and as Jesus\r\nChrist is to the Father,\r\nthat so all things may\r\nagree in unity! Let no\r\nman deceive himself: if\r\nany one be not within\r\nthe altar, he is deprived\r\nof the bread of God.\r\nFor if the prayer of one\r\nor two possesses<a id=\"r774\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f774\"><sup>[774]</sup></a> such\r\npower, how much more\r\nthat of the bishop\r\nand the whole church!\r\nHe, therefore, that does\r\nnot assemble with the\r\nchurch, has even<a id=\"r775\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f775\"><sup>[775]</sup></a> by this\r\nmanifested his pride,\r\nand condemned himself.\r\nFor it is written, “God\r\nresisteth the proud.”<a id=\"r776\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f776\"><sup>[776]</sup></a>\r\nLet us be careful, then,\r\nnot to set ourselves in\r\nopposition to the bishop,\r\nin order that we may be\r\nsubject to God.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE EPHESIANS.","Chap. v.—The praise of unity."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-221"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cbb77b1a8483da8a47239ca36c348f92e2ec6c9d3d87611dbf8d3f5255dce384","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-f775","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":"f775","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f775\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r775\">775</a>. </span>Or, “already.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f775","text_sha256":"c1cadc80cf58cd93f8dae589015ee21f10c3c673642ee4a10490720acac98faf","verified":false,"work_id":null}