{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">May I enjoy you in all respects,\r\nif indeed I be worthy! For though\r\nI am bound, I am not worthy to be\r\ncompared to one of you that are at\r\nliberty. I know that ye are not\r\npuffed up, for ye have Jesus in\r\nyourselves. And all the more when\r\nI commend you, I know that ye\r\ncherish modesty<a id=\"r971\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f971\"><sup>[971]</sup></a> of spirit; as it is\r\nwritten, “The righteous man is his\r\nown accuser;”<a id=\"r972\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f972\"><sup>[972]</sup></a> and again, “Declare\r\nthou first thine iniquities, that\r\nthou mayest be justified;”<a id=\"r973\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f973\"><sup>[973]</sup></a> and\r\nagain, “When ye shall have done\r\nall things that are commanded you,\r\nsay, We are unprofitable servants;”<a id=\"r974\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f974\"><sup>[974]</sup></a>\r\n“for that which is highly esteemed\r\namong men is abomination in the\r\nsight of God.”<a id=\"r975\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f975\"><sup>[975]</sup></a> For says [the\r\nScripture], “God be merciful to\r\nme a sinner.”<a id=\"r976\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f976\"><sup>[976]</sup></a> Therefore those\r\ngreat ones, Abraham and Job,<a id=\"r977\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f977\"><sup>[977]</sup></a>\r\nstyled themselves “dust and\r\nashes”<a id=\"r978\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f978\"><sup>[978]</sup></a> before God. And David\r\nsays, “Who am I before Thee, O\r\nLord, that Thou hast glorified me\r\nhitherto?”<a id=\"r979\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f979\"><sup>[979]</sup></a> And Moses, who\r\nwas “the meekest of all men,”<a id=\"r980\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f980\"><sup>[980]</sup></a>\r\nsaith to God, “I am of a feeble\r\nvoice, and of a slow tongue.”<a id=\"r981\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f981\"><sup>[981]</sup></a> Be\r\nye therefore also of a humble\r\nspirit, that ye may be exalted; for\r\n“he that abaseth himself shall be\r\nexalted, and he that exalteth himself\r\nshall be abased.”<a id=\"r982\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f982\"><sup>[982]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE MAGNESIANS.","Chap. xii.—Ye are superior to me."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-338"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9c353cbbb7d731ed8822c2c94ddf608b71c40fbf5aea29dce2a5ad2a16b045e2","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":18,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xviii. 27","verse":27,"verse_end":27}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f978","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":"f978","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f978\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r978\">978</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Genesis\">Gen.</abbr> <abbr title=\"eighteen\">xviii.</abbr> 27; Job <abbr title=\"thirty\">xxx.</abbr> 19.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f978","text_sha256":"8c178de4e3ff1d4b671487875f3022d1c0fb00456e3037169d66f8191a0caf54","verified":false,"work_id":null}