{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010253.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010253.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010253.htm","text":"From Syria even unto Rome I fight with beasts: not that I am devoured by brute beasts, for these, as ye know, by the will of God, spared Daniel, but by beasts in the shape of men, in whom the merciless wild beast himself lies hid, and pricks and wounds me day by day. But none of these hardships \u201cmove me, neither count I my life dear unto myself,\u201d 1177 in such a way as to love it better than the Lord. Wherefore I am prepared for [encountering] fire, wild beasts, the sword or the cross, so that only I may see Christ my Saviour and God, who died for me. I therefore, the prisoner of Christ, who am driven along by land and sea, exhort you: \u201cstand fast in the faith,\u201d 1178 and be ye steadfast, \u201cfor the just shall live by faith;\u201d 1179 be ye unwavering, for \u201cthe Lord causes those to dwell in a house who are of one and the same character.\u201d 1180\nPs. lxviii. 7 (after the LXX).","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: IGNATIUS: Chapter I.\u2014His own sufferings:...","type":"page"}