{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010298.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010298.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010298.htm","text":"Darest thou, then, who didst fall \u201cas lightning\u201d 1341 from the very highest glory, to say to the Lord, \u201cCast thyself down from hence 1342 [to Him] to whom the things that are not are reckoned as if they were, 1343 and to provoke to a display of vainglory Him that was free from all ostentation? And didst thou pretend to read in Scripture concerning Him: \u201cFor He hath given His angels charge concerning Thee, and in their hands they shall bear Thee up, lest thou shouldest dash Thy foot against a stone?\u201d 1344 At the same time thou didst pretend to be ignorant of the rest, furtively concealing what [the Scripture] predicted concerning thee and thy servants: \u201cThou shalt tread upon the adder and the basilisk; the lion and the dragon shall thou trample under foot.\u201d 1345\nComp. Rom. iv. 17.\n118:1344 118:1345","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: IGNATIUS: Chapter X.\u2014Continuation: audacity of...","type":"page"}