{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010300.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010300.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010300.htm","text":"But the Lord is long-suffering, and does not reduce to nothing him who in his ignorance dares [to utter] such words, but meekly replies, \u201cGet thee hence, Satan.\u201d 1351 He does not say, \u201cGet thee behind Me,\u201d for it is not possible that he should be converted; but, \u201cBegone, Satan,\u201d to the course which thou hast chosen. \u201cBegone\u201d to those things to which, through thy malevolence, thou hast been called. For I know Who I am, and by Whom I have been sent, and Whom it behoves Me to worship. For \u201cthou shall worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.\u201d 1352 I know the one [God]; I am acquainted with the only [Lord] from whom thou hast become an apostate. I am not an enemy of God; I acknowledge His pre-eminence; I know the Father, who is the author of my generation.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: IGNATIUS: Chapter XII.\u2014The meek reply of...","type":"page"}